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Ch. 61Wonder: Spirit Peach Mountain

Chapter Summary: Wonder: Spirit Peach Mountain

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Luo Bing, Li Tianheng, and the other top students agree to cooperate in attacking the Demigod Demon Monkey’s Divine Kingdom Core. Luo Bing and Li Tianheng will claim first and second place, while the rewards for third through seventh will be divided evenly to prevent conflict.
  • Li Tianheng activates his Berserk Blood talent, strengthening the Human Race army, and the assault begins. The first clash kills nearly one hundred thousand ordinary Demon Monkeys.
  • The Demon Monkey God secretly reveals that the attack is proceeding according to its plan. It had already moved its most valuable assets away from the Divine Kingdom Core, leaving only less important buildings behind as a convincing sacrifice.
  • The Demigod deliberately restrains itself, allowing the human geniuses to gain combat experience without suffering crippling losses. The battle attracts the attention of numerous gods, who comment on Luo Bing’s Frost Spirit Technique, Li Tianheng’s army-enhancing talent, and the Demon Monkey’s deceptive strategy.
  • Far from the main battlefield, Yang Fan realizes that the exam will end as soon as the Divine Kingdom Core is captured. Hoping to improve his ranking, he stops using scattered scouts and begins exploring with his entire army.
  • During his exploration, Yang Fan discovers a suspicious forest and then a valley covered in countless Demon Monkey tracks. He initially assumes the traces are remnants from the school gods’ earlier conquest, but sends a scout to investigate cautiously.
  • The scout reveals that the valley contains more than a million hidden Demon Monkeys, including many Fifth-Order Demon Monkey Generals. The army is unusually quiet and appears to be waiting rather than participating in the battle.
  • At the center of the valley, Yang Fan discovers the Demon Monkey’s true treasures: multiple B-Grade Monkey Wine Springs, B-Grade Flat Peach Trees, an Enlightenment Stone, and the unplaced wonder Spirit Peach Mountain, valued at thirty billion points.
  • Yang Fan retreats carefully while the watching gods realize that the Demon Monkey hid its core assets. Some gods even suggest taking the treasures after the exam, but Yang Wanli reminds them that the Demigod is protected by a binding contract and must be released.
  • Attention shifts to Yang Fan as everyone wonders whether he will risk pursuing the enormous treasure trove or flee from the million-strong demon army.

Character Developments

  • Li Tianheng demonstrates leadership and confidence by activating Berserk Blood and empowering the entire Human Race army. His talent proves increasingly valuable as Divine Kingdom battles grow larger.
  • Luo Bing displays exceptional ability by casting the powerful Frost Spirit Technique despite being only a Fifth-Order Lifeform, with the Ice God Temple assisting her.
  • The Demigod Demon Monkey is revealed to be highly cunning and pragmatic. It sacrifices superficial assets, hides its true wealth, and carefully balances resistance with the need to train the human students.
  • Yang Fan shows growing caution and strategic awareness. Although tempted by the enormous rewards, he recognizes the danger posed by the hidden demon army and withdraws instead of acting recklessly.
  • Yang Wanli acts as a voice of authority and legality, preventing the gods from openly violating the contract with the Demon Monkey.

Significant Themes

  • Deception and misdirection: The Demon Monkey wins an advantage by making its enemies believe they have found the main target while its true assets remain hidden.
  • Greed versus survival: The treasures are valuable enough to tempt even gods, but claiming them could mean confronting an overwhelming army.
  • Strategic patience: Strength alone is insufficient; the Monkey’s preparation and Yang Fan’s cautious investigation prove that careful planning determines success.
  • Competition and cooperation: The students temporarily cooperate to maximize their rankings, while still negotiating rewards and individual ambitions.
  • Rules and contracts: Even powerful gods are constrained by binding agreements, emphasizing the importance of authority and divine law.

Character Interactions

  • Luo Bing, Li Tianheng, and their allies negotiate a fair division of rankings and rewards before beginning the assault.
  • The Demon Monkey privately mocks the human attackers while allowing them to proceed, illustrating the gap between its public behavior and secret intentions.
  • The watching gods discuss and evaluate the students’ talents, especially Luo Bing’s technique and Li Tianheng’s army-wide enhancement.
  • Yang Wanli reprimands the gods who suggest keeping the Demon Monkey’s treasures, reinforcing the contract’s authority.
  • Yang Fan’s discovery becomes a spectacle for the observers, who now wait to see whether he chooses treasure, battle, or retreat.
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Ch. 62Demon Monkey Uprising

Chapter Summary: “Demon Monkey Uprising”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Luo Chengfeng realizes that Yang Fan has discovered the Demigod Demon Monkey’s hidden base and fears he will provoke a disastrous retaliation.
  • Although Yang Fan’s army has withdrawn to a safe distance, Yang Fan devises a risky plan to exploit a loophole in the examination’s contractual rules. Because the demon monkey’s buildings can be directly stored by anyone who approaches them, he attempts to steal the enemy’s core assets.
  • Yang Fan removes the hide from a juvenile demon monkey and has a Second-Order believer crawl inside it, disguising himself as a demon monkey. The believer is ordered to approach the valley while the demon army sleeps.
  • The disguised believer reaches the buildings, but a Fifth-Order demon monkey general notices him and kills him. However, before dying, the believer gets close enough for Yang Fan to use the rules’ loophole and transfer the protected buildings into his Divine Kingdom.
  • Yang Fan orders all his believers to flee toward the outskirts. He knows the theft has succeeded, but also understands that the real danger is now beginning.
  • The Demigod Demon Monkey immediately detects the theft and becomes enraged. He commands his forces to kill all of Yang Fan’s believers, invade Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom, and recover his treasures—especially Spirit Peach Mountain, which is essential to his future recovery.
  • The demon monkey army abruptly becomes berserk, reversing the battlefield’s momentum. Luo Bing, Li Tianheng, and the other human students are forced onto the defensive despite having nearly reached the examination’s finish line.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan demonstrates considerable cunning, boldness, and ruthlessness. He knowingly risks his own believers and potentially exposes the other students to danger, reasoning that the school will intervene if their Divine Kingdoms are invaded.
  • His internal conflict reveals that he is not entirely without conscience, but that he prioritizes survival and personal gain over loyalty to others. He repeatedly convinces himself that the consequences are not his responsibility.
  • Luo Chengfeng is deeply alarmed by Yang Fan’s plan, recognizing that the boy’s action could trigger the destruction of the entire group.
  • Yang Wanli correctly identifies Yang Fan’s strategy and acknowledges both its ingenuity and its extreme danger.
  • The Demigod Demon Monkey shifts from calculated restraint to uncontrolled fury once Spirit Peach Mountain and the other buildings are stolen. His desperation exposes how important the stolen assets are to him.
  • Luo Bing and Li Tianheng are forced to abandon their offensive advance and stabilize their formation as the demon monkeys launch a suicidal counterattack.

Significant Themes

  • Risk versus reward: Yang Fan accepts enormous danger for the chance to seize valuable resources and gain a decisive advantage.
  • Moral compromise and self-preservation: Yang Fan deliberately treats other students as potential shields, revealing the selfish calculations behind his survival strategy.
  • Exploiting rules and loopholes: The chapter emphasizes how technical rules and contractual arrangements can be turned into weapons.
  • Consequences of greed and ambition: Yang Fan’s successful raid immediately creates a much greater threat, showing that victory in one moment can provoke catastrophe.
  • Hidden power and desperation: The demon monkey’s furious response reveals that Spirit Peach Mountain is central to his plans and that losing it could destroy his hopes of recovery.

Character Interactions

  • Luo Chengfeng anxiously discusses Yang Fan’s actions with Yang Wanli and Wan Sanqian, arguing that the school should intervene if the situation causes a Divine Kingdom invasion.
  • Yang Wanli explains the danger of Yang Fan’s strategy but admits that its chances of success are unexpectedly high.
  • Yang Fan directly commands his disguised believer through Divine Oracles, forcing him to overcome fear and make a final attempt to reach the buildings.
  • The Demigod Demon Monkey responds to the theft by issuing a kingdom-wide order for retaliation.
  • Luo Bing, Li Tianheng, and their allies coordinate under pressure, with Luo Bing using Ice Seal for a Thousand Miles to freeze several Fifth-Order demon monkeys while the group retreats to prevent its formation from collapsing.
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Ch. 63Crippling Losses, Encounter

Chapter Summary: “Crippling Losses, Encounter”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan’s army is relentlessly harassed by Demon Monkey soldiers who can track his movements and attack from every direction.
  • Realizing that the Divine Kingdom’s God is monitoring him and that a million-strong monkey army is pursuing him, Yang Fan orders 200,000 ordinary soldiers to remain behind. They are instructed to cut down the forest and burn it to delay the enemy, despite knowing the mission will likely cost them their lives.
  • To escape more quickly, Yang Fan has his troops discard armor and abandon valuable buildings and spirit plants. His goal is to reach the Divine Kingdom’s outskirts, where the pressure will shift toward the school’s forces.
  • Luo Bing and Li Tianheng’s armies are also overwhelmed. Their formations become increasingly difficult to defend against after the enemy God intervenes, forcing them to retreat toward the outskirts and sacrifice 500,000 soldiers as a rear guard.
  • Luo Mingxuan abandons his allies and flees, provoking accusations of betrayal. Other students panic as Demon Monkeys begin appearing throughout the Divine Kingdom and killing indiscriminately.
  • The invasion reaches the outer regions and eventually breaches the Divine Kingdom Core. Outside observers witness a student’s nutrient pod being destroyed, confirming that students are beginning to die in the assessment.
  • School officials debate whether the situation has become too dangerous. Li Yuan blames Yang Fan for provoking the Demon Monkey God by using rule-based methods to relocate structures in the enemy’s Divine Kingdom Core, while Luo Chengfeng and Yang Wanli defend Yang Fan’s actions as legal and strategically justified.
  • After more than a month of pursuit and over a hundred interceptions, Yang Fan’s forces suffer devastating losses. Nearly 700,000 ordinary soldiers are killed, leaving only 300,000 elite soldiers.
  • Desperate to delay the enemy, Yang Fan orders another 100,000 elderly and female followers to build defenses, having already sacrificed almost half a million noncombatants.
  • When scouts discover human forces nearby, Yang Fan moves toward them and eventually encounters Luo Bing and Li Tianheng’s exhausted but still massive army of roughly two million followers.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan becomes increasingly ruthless and desperate. He prioritizes escape and survival over preserving resources or followers, repeatedly sacrificing civilians and weakening his army to slow the pursuing Demigod.
  • Despite his confidence and strategic talent, Yang Fan begins to recognize that he severely underestimated the strength of the enemy God and may not be able to escape alone.
  • Luo Bing and Li Tianheng realize that they cannot challenge the enemy directly. Their decision to retreat shows a shift from aggression to survival, while their willingness to leave troops behind demonstrates the brutal cost of the conflict.
  • Luo Mingxuan reveals cowardice and self-preservation by abandoning the retreating forces, damaging his relationships with the other students.
  • Zhang Pang is portrayed as extremely cautious and opportunistic. He initially considers using his followers to help but immediately retreats after placing others between himself and danger.
  • Yang Wanli and Luo Chengfeng defend Yang Fan’s conduct and criticize the school’s failure to anticipate the consequences of the assessment.
  • Li Yuan remains hostile toward Yang Fan, viewing his tactics as underhanded and responsible for the escalating disaster.

Significant Themes

  • The brutal cost of survival: Victory and escape require sacrificing vast numbers of followers, including noncombatants.
  • Strategic ruthlessness versus morality: Yang Fan’s decisions are tactically sensible but morally troubling, especially as he abandons women, elderly followers, and possibly children.
  • Underestimating powerful enemies: Yang Fan’s early success leads him to misjudge the Demigod’s strength, turning his advance into a prolonged survival struggle.
  • Chaos under pressure: The crisis exposes cowardice, betrayal, panic, and selfishness among the students.
  • Rules and morality in warfare: The officials debate whether exploiting loopholes and using unexpected tactics is legitimate, reflecting the difference between formal legality and honorable conduct.
  • The assessment becoming a massacre: What was meant to train students has escalated beyond controlled combat, raising questions about the school’s responsibility to intervene.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan commands his followers without hesitation, and they obey even when ordered to undertake certain-death missions.
  • Luo Bing and Li Tianheng communicate urgently as their forces collapse, agreeing that retreat is necessary.
  • Luo Mingxuan apologizes while abandoning his allies, claiming that he does not want to die and will compensate them later.
  • School officials Yang Wanli, Luo Chengfeng, and Li Yuan argue over whether Yang Fan caused the crisis and whether his methods were justified. Yang Wanli ultimately sides with Yang Fan but privately hopes the principal will intervene.
  • Yang Fan calls out to Luo Bing and Li Tianheng for help after locating them. Li Tianheng is surprised to see him, since their position remains dangerously close to the Divine Kingdom Core.
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Ch. 64Life Is All About Acting

Chapter Summary: “Life Is All About Acting”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan claims he became lost after Demon Monkeys suddenly went berserk and chased him through the Divine Kingdom Core region.
  • To secure protection from Luo Bing, Li Tianheng, and their group, he offers valuable resources: fifty C-grade grain warehouses, numerous Spirit Fruits, and a medium-sized mineral vein.
  • Li Tianheng accepts the resources as a “protection fee” and promises to keep Yang Fan safe. Yang Fan pretends to be deeply grateful and completely loyal to him.
  • Yang Fan joins the group and offers his hundreds of thousands of followers as scouts. Since he does not care about follower casualties, the group’s movement becomes faster and more efficient.
  • The group realizes that the Demon Monkeys’ sudden madness is likely connected to their earlier attempt to steal the core structure of the alien Demigod Demon Monkey. Although they failed to obtain it, they seem to have provoked the Demigod.
  • After suffering heavy losses, the group decides to retreat toward the outskirts and wait for the school’s teachers to intervene.
  • As they near the outskirts, millions of Demon Monkey soldiers pursue them. A monkey general demands that the humans surrender the stolen structures.
  • Yang Fan deliberately provokes the army by claiming that their God has already been captured by humanity. Enraged, the Demon Monkeys launch an all-out attack.
  • Li Tianheng activates his Berserk Blood talent, empowering the group’s followers as they prepare to defend themselves.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan reveals himself as highly calculating and skilled at deception. He disguises his selfish motives behind a harmless, grateful, and slightly timid persona.
  • He successfully manipulates both the Luo and Li families into protecting him while making them believe he is offering a fair exchange.
  • Li Tianheng develops a favorable impression of Yang Fan after receiving the resources and accepts responsibility for protecting him.
  • Luo Bing initially wants to protect Yang Fan because he is connected to the Luo Family, but the others’ concerns force the matter into a transactional arrangement.
  • The members of the Li and Luo families remain wary and frustrated, but the danger forces them to continue cooperating.
  • The observing elders recognize Yang Fan’s talent for “acting.” They are amused by how effectively he manipulates supposedly superior students.

Significant Themes

  • Deception as survival: Yang Fan demonstrates that clever performance and manipulation can be more valuable than raw strength.
  • Self-interest versus honor: The characters openly treat protection as a transaction, suggesting that survival takes priority over morality during a life-or-death crisis.
  • The cost of greed: The group’s attempt to steal the Demigod’s core structure brings them nothing but relentless pursuit and massive losses.
  • Appearance versus reality: Yang Fan’s humble, grateful behavior hides his exploitative intentions, while the supposedly powerful students fail to recognize that they are being manipulated.
  • Cooperation under pressure: Despite resentment and distrust, the characters must work together against a far greater enemy.

Important Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan appeals to Luo Bing and Li Tianheng for protection, then wins Li Tianheng over by presenting valuable resources.
  • The Luo and Li family members argue indirectly over whether Yang Fan is worth protecting and whether his payment is sufficient.
  • Outside observers, including Li Yuan, condemn Yang Fan’s shameless behavior, while others find his performance entertaining and impressive.
  • Yang Fan and Li Tianheng establish a temporary alliance, with Yang Fan acting submissive and Li Tianheng assuming the role of protector.
  • Yang Fan intentionally insults the Demon Monkeys, provoking them into attacking just as the human group reaches the outskirts.
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Ch. 65Safety, Brothers

Chapter Summary: “Safety, Brothers”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • After failing to seize any core buildings, Li Tianheng, Luo Bing, and their allies are pursued for millions of kilometers by a powerful demon-beast army.
  • Yang Fan urges them not to fight directly. He volunteers to scout ahead while they retreat, despite having previously shown strong determination to fight.
  • To detect traps, poisonous creatures, and defensive structures, Yang Fan repeatedly sends hundreds of thousands of poorly equipped believers into the forest as living scouts. Luo Bing also sacrifices believers to cover the group’s retreat.
  • After several days, the group regroups. Li Tianheng and Luo Bing express concern that Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom may be weakened by the heavy casualties, but Yang Fan insists that using his weaker believers is preferable to risking theirs.
  • The group travels for another month toward the exit. Resistance gradually weakens because the outer Demon Monkeys are mostly low-level and unintelligent.
  • They reach the clearing where the students initially entered the foreign-race Divine Kingdom. The clearing is a safe zone that the surrounding Demon Monkeys cannot enter, and many students are already gathered there, complaining about the deadly examination.
  • Luo Bing freezes thousands of Demon Monkeys with Ice Seal, while Li Tianheng’s believer destroys them with Windbreaker Slash, allowing the group to reach safety.
  • Once inside, Li Tianheng publicly praises Yang Fan’s assistance and promises to convert Yang Fan’s share of the seized resources into Faith Points. Yang Fan declines, claiming he only did what was necessary.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan presents himself as selfless and cautious, but his actions reveal strategic calculation. He preserves the stronger believers of Luo Bing and Li Tianheng while expending his own disposable followers to clear the path. He recognizes that this may alienate powerful families, but believes the rewards are worth it.
  • Li Tianheng shifts from humiliation and frustration to genuine respect and affection for Yang Fan. Their shared ordeal causes him to regard Yang Fan as a true brother and potential lifelong ally.
  • Luo Bing remains practical and vigilant, recognizing the danger of overextending their Divine Kingdoms. Her willingness to sacrifice believers to ensure the group’s escape also shows her decisiveness and leadership.
  • Yang Fan’s relationship with the group improves significantly because of his apparent willingness to risk everything for them, even though he privately views the situation more pragmatically.

Significant Themes

  • Survival over pride: The characters abandon the idea of fighting to the death and prioritize retreating safely when the enemy is overwhelmingly powerful.
  • Sacrifice and expendability: The chapter highlights the brutal logic of Divine Kingdom warfare, where believers can be used as scouts or shields. Yang Fan’s weaker followers bear most of the losses.
  • Trust forged through danger: Shared life-and-death experiences create stronger bonds than financial rewards or ordinary alliances.
  • Appearances versus motives: Yang Fan’s outward selflessness masks careful resource management and opportunism, raising questions about whether genuine friendship and calculated advantage can coexist.
  • The dangers of the examination system: The students’ complaints and reports of deaths emphasize that the assessment is extremely lethal, especially for those following the logistics path.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan advises Li Tianheng and Luo Bing to retreat, earning their reluctant agreement.
  • Li Tianheng initially questions Yang Fan’s sudden caution but later admires his contribution and warns him not to destroy his Divine Kingdom’s foundations.
  • Luo Bing backs Yang Fan’s scouting plan, later ordering him to recall his remaining believers to protect his Divine Kingdom’s future.
  • The group jokes together during the retreat, showing that their relationship has become more relaxed, though Luo Bing warns them not to lower their guard.
  • After reaching safety, Li Tianheng calls Yang Fan his brother, offers friendship, and promises future support. Yang Fan modestly rejects compensation, strengthening the group’s impression that he is trustworthy and selfless.
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Ch. 66Li Tianheng, You Idiot

Chapter Summary: “Li Tianheng, You Idiot”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan earns the sincere friendship of Luo Bing and the other elite students after surviving the Midterm Exam. Luo Bing promises to help him in the future, while the group invites him to spend time with them after the exam.
  • Yang Fan warns his friend Zhang Pang to distance himself and keep a low profile, sensing that the powerful people he has manipulated may retaliate.
  • Before the students can leave the Divine Kingdom, a million Demon Monkey soldiers surround the safe zone. Their Demigod leader demands that the humans return the treasures Yang Fan stole.
  • The Demigod attacks the students, but Principal Hong Bing intervenes, nullifying the attack and reminding the Demigod that it cannot violate their agreement. Forced to retreat, the Demigod leaves while memorizing Yang Fan’s location.
  • The exam officially ends, and the rankings reveal Yang Fan in first place with 100 million points. Luo Bing and Li Tianheng tie for second and third with the same score.
  • Li Tianheng is enraged and confused, since he believed Yang Fan had succeeded only because Li Tianheng protected him.
  • Li Yuan exposes the truth, accusing Yang Fan of betraying and manipulating the others. At his request, Principal Hong Bing allows the exam recording to be shown publicly.
  • The recording reveals Yang Fan’s entire scheme: he infiltrated infant Demon Monkeys with his believers, exploited the Divine Kingdom’s rules to steal tens of billions of resources and a valuable core building, provoked the Demon Monkey army into a rampage, and then used Luo Bing and Li Tianheng’s group to escort him safely back to the protected area.
  • Yang Fan’s deception is exposed to everyone, turning the ranking announcement into a public humiliation and leaving the other students stunned.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan: Demonstrates exceptional intelligence, nerve, and strategic manipulation. He carefully pretends to be weak and helpless while using stronger students as protection, but his success also makes him a target of powerful enemies.
  • Luo Bing: Recognizes Yang Fan’s value and sincerity, becoming genuinely willing to support and befriend him.
  • Li Tianheng: Shifts from confident protector and friend to furious, humiliated victim after realizing Yang Fan used him. His worldview collapses when he learns he was deceived.
  • Zhang Pang: Shows complete trust in Yang Fan, obeying his warning to stay away despite not understanding the reason.
  • Li Yuan: Sees through Yang Fan’s actions and openly condemns him, particularly because Li Tianheng was manipulated.
  • Hong Bing: Acts as the school’s ultimate authority, protecting the students from the Demigod and permitting the recording to be revealed.

Significant Themes

  • Friendship versus manipulation: Yang Fan treats relationships as tools for survival, while others believe they are forming genuine bonds.
  • Intelligence overcoming strength: Yang Fan succeeds not through direct combat but through planning, deception, and exploitation of rules.
  • The dangers of misplaced trust: Li Tianheng’s confidence in Yang Fan blinds him to the fact that he is being used.
  • Public reputation and consequences: Yang Fan’s brilliant scheme secures first place, but its exposure threatens his relationships and makes him enemies.
  • Power and authority: The school’s contract and Hong Bing’s intervention demonstrate that even powerful Demigods must obey stronger institutional rules.

Character Interactions

  • Luo Bing and the elite students warmly invite Yang Fan into their circle and offer him future assistance.
  • Yang Fan jokingly but seriously warns Li Shuhao and Zhang Pang to keep their distance, fearing retaliation.
  • The Demon Monkey Demigod directly confronts Yang Fan but is stopped by Hong Bing for violating the contract.
  • Li Tianheng angrily challenges the rankings, unable to understand how Yang Fan surpassed him.
  • Li Yuan confronts Yang Fan indirectly by demanding the recording, exposing Yang Fan’s betrayal to the entire school.
  • The chapter ends with Yang Fan’s schemes being replayed before everyone, transforming his victory into a humiliating public revelation.
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Ch. 67Played for a Fool

Chapter Summary: Played for a Fool

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan’s scheme during the midterm examination is exposed through recorded footage. He had manipulated the school’s top geniuses into helping him hold back a beast tide while he secretly seized the enemy’s nest and gained the greatest reward.
  • His classmates and rivals realize that his earlier claims of needing protection were a calculated deception. Although Yang Fan achieved first place, he also humiliated the other six members of his team and made enemies throughout the school.
  • Li Yuan, furious that Li Tianheng had repeatedly called Yang Fan his “brother” while unknowingly being manipulated, publicly berates his own family’s genius.
  • Li Tianheng confronts Yang Fan and punches him. Yang Fan blocks the attack but is sent flying and suffers a fractured right hand, recognizing that Li Tianheng’s Divine Kingdom is still far stronger than his own.
  • Yang Wanli intervenes before the conflict escalates, reminding them that fighting is forbidden at school. Li Yuan then forcibly takes Li Tianheng away.
  • The other team members leave with veiled threats, warning Yang Fan that they will remember his betrayal and may challenge him later in the Divine Kingdom Battlefield.
  • Wan Sanqian praises Yang Fan’s cleverness and advises him not to worry about public opinion, emphasizing that sufficient strength will eventually silence criticism. He regrets that Yang Fan has already joined the Luo Family, since otherwise he might have made Yang Fan the heir to Central Plains Building.
  • Luo Chengfeng arrives to discuss the rewards. He tells Luo Bing to select the Ice Immortal Palace and Ice God Temple, buildings that complement each other, and advises Yang Fan to choose the B-grade building most suited to his Divine Kingdom rather than simply selecting the one with the highest value.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan is revealed as highly strategic, ruthless, and willing to deceive powerful allies to secure victory. He accepts that his actions have damaged his reputation but remains focused on the benefits and future strength he gained.
  • Zhang Pang becomes frightened by Yang Fan’s success, realizing that Yang Fan has provoked the most influential students in the school.
  • Li Tianheng shifts from treating Yang Fan as a brother to openly regarding him as an enemy. His punch demonstrates the enormous gap between their current strengths.
  • The other geniuses, including Luo Bing, lose their trust and affection for Yang Fan. Their admiration is replaced by resentment, humiliation, and hostility.
  • Luo Bing becomes angry not only with Yang Fan but also with her elder Luo Chengfeng, refusing to respond warmly to his advice because she associates him with the situation.
  • Luo Chengfeng remains conflicted. He understands that Yang Fan’s actions were defensible in a life-or-death situation, but he worries that Yang Fan’s reputation will force him to work alone and make future cooperation difficult.
  • Wan Sanqian recognizes Yang Fan’s unusual potential and offers philosophical encouragement, suggesting that power will matter more than reputation in the long run.

Significant Themes

  • Cunning versus conventional morality: Yang Fan’s victory comes from manipulation rather than straightforward strength, raising questions about whether deception is justified during a crisis.
  • The price of success: Although Yang Fan wins the examination and gains valuable rewards, he loses friendships, trust, and potential allies.
  • Strength and reputation: Several characters argue that great power can overcome social condemnation, while Luo Chengfeng worries that Yang Fan’s enemies will continue to hinder him.
  • Survival and betrayal: Luo Chengfeng acknowledges that in a true life-or-death situation, alliances and principles may be sacrificed if necessary to preserve one’s Divine Kingdom.
  • Technology and suitability: The discussion of the school treasury emphasizes that the most valuable reward is not necessarily the strongest one; development should be based on what best fits an individual’s needs.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan remains silent and unashamed while Zhang Pang panics over the consequences of the scheme.
  • Li Yuan humiliates and scolds Li Tianheng, then removes him after the confrontation with Yang Fan.
  • Li Tianheng attacks Yang Fan, establishing their new relationship as openly antagonistic.
  • The five other team members confront Yang Fan indirectly, patting him on the shoulder while issuing threatening reminders of their anger.
  • Wan Sanqian gives Yang Fan encouragement and acknowledges his unusual talent.
  • Luo Chengfeng advises both Luo Bing and Yang Fan about their rewards, but Luo Bing rejects him emotionally while Yang Fan respectfully accepts his guidance.
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Ch. 68Penglai Island

Chapter Summary: “Penglai Island”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan and Luo Bing accompany Yang Wanli to the school basement to select buildings for their Divine Kingdoms.
  • Luo Bing uses the school’s selection system and chooses the Ice Immortal Palace, a B-rank building that boosts ice-element believers’ cultivation and reduces spiritual energy consumption.
  • Before leaving, Luo Bing tells Yang Fan, “Welcome to Class One. I look forward to working with you,” though Yang Fan senses restrained anger or hidden meaning in her words.
  • Yang Fan accesses his own selection list, which includes powerful buildings such as the Immortal-Nurturing Tower, Blood Sacrifice Heavenly Pool, and Heavenly Artifact Pavilion.
  • A mysterious Wonder called Penglai Island appears among the options. Its value and effects are concealed, leaving Yang Fan uncertain.
  • Although the Immortal-Nurturing Tower would directly solve his Divine Kingdom’s lack of cultivation-enhancing infrastructure, Yang Fan chooses the unknown Penglai Island, trusting his instincts and accepting the risk.
  • It is revealed that Principal Hong Bing deliberately arranged for Yang Fan to receive Penglai Island. The Wonder can conceal Divine Kingdom coordinates, protecting Yang Fan from enemies who might otherwise expose his wealth to foreign races.
  • Hong Bing explains that Yang Fan has accumulated too many valuable resources and enemies, making him vulnerable despite Federation laws. He considers Penglai Island an investment in Yang Fan’s future and hopes Yang Fan will become a High-Tier God capable of protecting humanity.
  • Yang Wanli questions why Hong Bing publicly humiliated Yang Fan if he valued him. Hong Bing responds that young people need pressure to grow, revealing that his harsh treatment was intentional training.
  • After returning home, Yang Fan learns that many classmates and powerful members of the Luo Family—including Demigods and Gods—are asking whether he will trade the buildings he obtained.
  • Yang Fan tells Luo Rou to ignore the messages, intending to investigate his new buildings and Wonders before making any decisions. He then locks himself in his room to study them privately.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan demonstrates increasing decisiveness and courage. Rather than choose the safe and clearly useful Immortal-Nurturing Tower, he takes a calculated risk on Penglai Island.
  • He also shows growing confidence in his protection and status, believing that the Luo Family and Federation laws will deter direct attacks.
  • Luo Bing officially joins Class One and selects a building suited to her ice-based abilities. Her cool farewell to Yang Fan suggests unresolved dissatisfaction or tension between them.
  • Principal Hong Bing is revealed to be more perceptive and supportive than his earlier harsh behavior suggested. His public punishment of Yang Fan was meant to create pressure and encourage growth.
  • Yang Wanli continues to act as a concerned intermediary. He worries both about the fairness of granting Yang Fan such a valuable Wonder and about the risks Yang Fan faces.
  • Luo Rou becomes visibly anxious after receiving inquiries from powerful figures, highlighting the pressure surrounding Yang Fan’s sudden rise in wealth and influence.

Significant Themes

  • Risk versus security: Yang Fan must choose between a reliable building with known benefits and a mysterious Wonder with unknown potential.
  • Hidden protection and strategic preparation: Penglai Island’s ability to conceal Divine Kingdom coordinates reflects the importance of secrecy and defense in a world where wealth can attract deadly enemies.
  • Pressure as a means of growth: Hong Bing believes harsh treatment and adversity are necessary to develop exceptional young people.
  • Unequal distribution of power: The chapter emphasizes that rare treasures naturally provoke envy, greed, and potential betrayal.
  • Investment in future potential: Hong Bing’s gift represents the school’s belief that Yang Fan may eventually become a major protector of humanity.
  • Rising influence and danger: Yang Fan’s success has attracted attention from both allies and powerful outsiders, making his future achievements increasingly dangerous as well as promising.

Important Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan and Luo Bing: Their brief exchange after Luo Bing joins Class One is outwardly polite but emotionally tense, hinting at unresolved conflict.
  • Hong Bing and Yang Wanli: Their conversation reveals the principal’s motivations and establishes that Yang Fan’s public humiliation was deliberate rather than evidence of disapproval.
  • Yang Fan and Luo Rou: Luo Rou warns him about the flood of trade inquiries, while Yang Fan responds calmly and prioritizes understanding his new assets.
  • Hong Bing and Yang Fan: Though they do not speak directly, Hong Bing’s decision to give Yang Fan Penglai Island demonstrates his confidence in Yang Fan and his desire to protect and cultivate him.
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Ch. 69Thanking Our God for His Gift

Chapter Summary: “Thanking Our God for His Gift”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan examines several treasures obtained through his Divine Kingdom and discovers that his permissions are initially too low to access their information.
  • His permissions are suddenly upgraded because an unidentified Third-Order God guarantees for him, allowing him to view the treasures’ details.
  • He learns that his Divine Kingdom contains:
    • Monkey Wine Spring, which produces wine capable of cleansing the body, improving cultivation aptitude, and temporarily enhancing comprehension.
    • Flat Peach Tree, whose fruit can extend a person’s lifespan by a thousand years.
    • Enlightenment Stone, which creates a hundred-kilometer Domain of Enlightenment, improving comprehension and cultivation efficiency by 50%.
    • Spirit Peach Mountain, an enormous resource-producing treasure land capable of supplying hundreds of millions of beings, though it requires a constant supply of Immortal Qi.
    • Penglai Island, a self-sustaining cultivation sanctuary that generates Immortal Qi, improves cultivation and comprehension, suppresses distracting thoughts, and conceals Divine Kingdom coordinates.
  • Yang Fan realizes that Spirit Peach Mountain and Penglai Island complement each other perfectly: Penglai Island supplies the Immortal Qi necessary for Spirit Peach Mountain to thrive.
  • He becomes increasingly concerned that the public livestream of his examination may have attracted the attention of powerful Gods. He worries that others might attempt to locate or seize his Divine Kingdom.
  • Using his divine consciousness, Yang Fan manifests the treasures within his Divine Kingdom:
    • Penglai Island descends and transforms the environment with dense Immortal Qi.
    • Spirit Peach Mountain rises and produces abundant spiritual fruits.
    • Two Monkey Wine Springs appear at its base.
    • The Enlightenment Stone settles on Penglai Island and establishes its domain.
  • The Divine Kingdom’s inhabitants kneel and thank Yang Fan for his gifts, while Yang Fan receives powerful feedback from the dramatic improvement of his Divine Kingdom.

Character Development

  • Yang Fan moves from confusion and irritation over his restricted permissions to astonishment and excitement as he recognizes the extraordinary value of his treasures.
  • His joy is tempered by growing caution. He understands that his gains are valuable enough to attract divine-level enemies and begins seriously considering the danger of coordinate exposure.
  • Yang Fan displays stronger strategic thinking by recognizing how Penglai Island’s concealment abilities can protect him and how its Immortal Qi can sustain Spirit Peach Mountain.
  • He also gains confidence, feeling that obtaining Penglai Island at the precise moment he needed protection suggests he may possess exceptional fortune.

Significant Themes

  • Fortune and danger: Great wealth and opportunity inevitably bring risk, especially when Yang Fan’s treasures are valuable even to Gods.
  • Divine providence and destiny: The sudden appearance of both a protective wonder and a resource-producing wonder makes Yang Fan feel favored by fate.
  • The growth of a Divine Kingdom: The treasures transform the kingdom from a relatively empty space into a self-sustaining cultivation and resource center.
  • Power through infrastructure: Yang Fan’s strength is not only personal; it comes from creating an environment that can cultivate believers, produce resources, support countless inhabitants, and conceal itself from enemies.
  • Mutual dependence and strategic combination: Penglai Island’s Immortal Qi sustains Spirit Peach Mountain, demonstrating how properly combining treasures multiplies their value.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan interacts with the Artificial Lifeform, which explains the treasures and informs him that a Third-Order God has guaranteed his identity.
  • Although Yang Fan never meets the unknown guarantor, the mysterious intervention significantly changes his access to information and raises questions about the guarantor’s motives.
  • Yang Fan reflects on the threat posed by other Gods and the limits of Federal Government protection.
  • His believers and other Divine Kingdom inhabitants respond collectively to the newly manifested wonders, kneeling and proclaiming gratitude for his gifts.
  • The relationship between Yang Fan and his believers is strengthened as the improved environment visibly benefits all life within the Divine Kingdom, while Yang Fan receives direct divine feedback from their flourishing.
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Ch. 70The Strong Are Always Lonely

Chapter Summary: The Strong Are Always Lonely

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Luo Chengfeng informs Yang Fan that the elders’ meeting failed to approve him for a First-Grade Genius training slot, despite his excellent Midterm Exam results.
  • The proposal was blocked largely because Yang Fan’s exam performance relied on opportunistic methods, giving opposing elders grounds to criticize him. Luo Xuan and Rao Mingming, the parents of Luo Mingxuan, actively opposed the proposal because of old personal grievances with Luo Chengfeng.
  • Although the official title was denied, the family head still grants Yang Fan two billion Faith Points and a B-rank Flesh Sea Blood Pond building as increased investment.
  • Yang Fan asks whether the school’s ten-billion-Faith-Point reward could help restore Luo Rou’s ruined Divine Kingdom. Luo Chengfeng explains that the damage requires the help of an extremely powerful, high-level healing God—someone the Luo Family currently lacks access to.
  • Luo Chengfeng advises Yang Fan to grow stronger, attend a good university, and seek a powerful teacher who might eventually help Luo Rou.
  • He warns Yang Fan not to sell the rare wonders in his Divine Kingdom—Spirit Peach Mountain and the Enlightenment Stone—despite buyers offering large sums.
  • Luo Chengfeng also urges Yang Fan to repair his relationship with Luo Bing, warning that Yang Fan’s controversial victory has cost him the goodwill of potential allies.
  • Attempting to apologize to the Genius Chat Group by offering to treat everyone to Heavenly Fragrance Haven, Yang Fan discovers that he has been removed from the group by Li Tianheng.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan remains calm and pragmatic after losing the First-Grade Genius position. He recognizes that his Divine Kingdom already contains valuable resources and believes time and development will allow him to become a Demigod within a few years.
  • His concern for Luo Rou deepens. He now genuinely considers her family and is determined to find a way to restore her Divine Kingdom, especially because they have a child together.
  • Yang Fan also begins to understand the social consequences of his exam strategy. While he gained tremendous rewards, he damaged his reputation and lost possible allies.
  • Luo Chengfeng continues to act as Yang Fan’s protector and advocate, securing substantial compensation even after the official proposal fails. His anger toward Luo Xuan and Rao Mingming reveals the family politics behind Yang Fan’s setback.
  • Luo Chengfeng also takes on a mentor-like role, emphasizing that strength alone is insufficient and that cooperation and trust are essential for long-term survival.
  • Luo Bing remains alienated from Yang Fan after the exam, while Yang Fan feels unsure how to repair their relationship.
  • Luo Xuan and Rao Mingming emerge as influential opponents whose personal conflict with Luo Chengfeng affects Yang Fan’s opportunities.

Significant Themes

  • Strength versus relationships: Yang Fan gains power and resources but loses goodwill, showing that achievement without cooperation can lead to isolation.
  • Family politics and favoritism: Advancement within the Luo Family depends not only on ability but also on elders’ personal loyalties and grudges.
  • Responsibility and loyalty: Yang Fan’s desire to help Luo Rou demonstrates his growing emotional commitment to her and their child.
  • Long-term investment: The chapter stresses the importance of preserving rare Divine Kingdom resources instead of pursuing immediate wealth.
  • Isolation of the exceptional: The title reflects Yang Fan’s attempt to rationalize being rejected by his peers after surpassing them.

Character Interactions

  • Luo Chengfeng and Yang Fan share a supportive grandfather-grandson relationship, with Luo Chengfeng offering both material assistance and strategic advice.
  • Yang Fan’s concern for Luo Rou strengthens his bond with her family, while Luo Chengfeng warns him not to sacrifice his entire future for an uncertain cure.
  • Yang Fan’s conflict with Luo Bing remains unresolved, and Luo Chengfeng encourages reconciliation for the sake of future cooperation.
  • Yang Fan’s attempted apology to the Genius Chat Group fails when Li Tianheng removes him, reinforcing his growing social isolation.
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Ch. 71High-End Artificial Lifeform

Chapter Summary: High-End Artificial Lifeform

Key Plot Points and Events

  • At the Luo Family headquarters, Luo Bing angrily confronts her father, Luo Hai, for convening an elders’ meeting and increasing the family’s investment in Yang Fan.
  • Luo Hai defends Yang Fan’s actions during the exam. He explains that Yang Fan merely protected his own interests by concealing the foreign Demigod’s core assets, since revealing the truth would likely have caused others to seize them.
  • Luo Hai uses the incident to teach Luo Bing an important lesson about Divine Kingdom development: trusting companions completely can be dangerous, especially during genuine Divine Kingdom Wars.
  • Although Luo Hai acknowledges that Yang Fan is untrustworthy, he tells Luo Bing not to deliberately target him because Yang Fan is still connected to the Luo Family.
  • Meanwhile, the senior-year Genius Chat Group becomes filled with students plotting revenge against Yang Fan. Li Tianheng declares Yang Fan the top target on the school’s “Villain Must Die List” and promises to eliminate all of Yang Fan’s believers in future Divine Kingdom battlefields.
  • Yang Fan remains unaware that he has been removed from the group chat and that nearly the entire senior class is preparing to oppose him.
  • Yang Fan examines the B-grade Flesh Sea Blood Pond awarded by Luo Hai. The building greatly strengthens believers who bathe in its bloodwater but requires substantial flesh and blood resources.
  • He places the Flesh Sea Blood Pond near the Hundred Spirits Blood Pool, recognizing that these blood-based structures produce an aura fundamentally different from the immortal aura of Penglai Island.
  • Yang Fan decides to divide his Divine Kingdom into separate developmental regions: cultivators will live on Penglai Island, while martial artists will remain on the ground and use blood-based facilities.
  • After receiving his exam reward and Luo Family investment, Yang Fan’s available wealth rises to 12.4 billion Faith Points.
  • He also acquires a huge collection of seized resources, including granaries, spirit fruits, Fire Spirit Peach Trees, spirit plants, and defensive buildings. However, sorting and selling these items would be extremely time-consuming.
  • Luo Chengfeng suggests purchasing a High-End Artificial Lifeform, which Yang Fan can now afford.
  • Yang Fan investigates the artificial lifeform, learning that it is a loyal, intelligent management assistant capable of organizing resources, overseeing Divine Kingdom development, handling construction, and conducting marketplace and stock transactions.

Character Developments

  • Luo Hai demonstrates greater wisdom and strategic insight than Luo Bing expected. Rather than blindly condemning Yang Fan, he recognizes the practical logic behind Yang Fan’s betrayal and uses it as a lesson about trust and survival.
  • Luo Bing becomes openly emotional and disillusioned with Yang Fan, believing that someone who can deceive others so easily would abandon them in danger. Her relationship with Yang Fan shifts further toward distrust and hostility.
  • Yang Fan continues to focus on maximizing the growth and efficiency of his Divine Kingdom. He shows strong strategic planning by separating cultivation and martial-arts development instead of forcing incompatible systems together.
  • Li Tianheng emerges as one of Yang Fan’s most aggressive opponents, organizing the senior students against him and turning the conflict into a wider campaign.
  • Li Shuhao becomes increasingly fearful of being associated with Yang Fan, showing how Yang Fan’s growing enemies have intimidated even former acquaintances.

Significant Themes

  • Self-interest and survival: Luo Hai argues that Yang Fan’s deception was a rational response to an opportunity and a threat, emphasizing that survival often requires protecting one’s own interests.
  • The danger of misplaced trust: The chapter warns that companions in a Divine Kingdom may eventually betray one another for resources, making caution and independence essential.
  • Strategic specialization: Yang Fan’s decision to separate immortal cultivation from martial development reflects the theme of organizing conflicting powers into compatible systems.
  • Rapid growth and management: Yang Fan’s expanding wealth and resources create new challenges. Success is no longer only about acquiring power but also about efficiently managing it.
  • Reputation and retaliation: Yang Fan’s actions have earned him powerful enemies, showing how short-term gains can create long-term political and personal consequences.
  • Technology supporting civilization: The High-End Artificial Lifeform introduces the idea that advanced artificial intelligence can help govern a Divine Kingdom, optimize resources, and reduce the burden on its god.

Important Character Interactions

  • Luo Bing and Luo Hai: Their argument reveals the difference between Luo Bing’s personal resentment and Luo Hai’s broader strategic perspective.
  • Luo Hai and Yang Fan: Though Yang Fan is not present, Luo Hai’s defense of him shows that the family head respects his decisiveness while still recognizing his untrustworthiness.
  • The senior-year students and Yang Fan: The students collectively turn against Yang Fan, with Li Tianheng encouraging organized attacks against his believers.
  • Yang Fan and Luo Chengfeng: Yang Fan seeks Luo Chengfeng’s advice about handling his massive haul of resources, leading to the recommendation to buy an artificial lifeform.
  • Yang Fan and his Divine Kingdom: Yang Fan actively restructures his realm around the differing auras and development paths of Penglai Island and the blood-based martial facilities.
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Ch. 72Self-Awareness, Letting Go Completely

Chapter Summary: “Self-Awareness, Letting Go Completely”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan purchases a High-End Artificial Lifeform for twenty billion Faith Points after learning from Luo Chengfeng that such beings are mass-produced by the Mechanical Divine Kingdom.
  • He names the artificial intelligence Yang Yi, gives her the appearance of a capable young woman, and grants her secondary authority over his Divine Kingdom.
  • Yang Yi immediately analyzes the entire Divine Kingdom, rapidly sorting and listing Yang Fan’s miscellaneous assets for sale. Her computational ability is revealed to be over twelve million times greater than Yang Fan’s.
  • Identified as a service-oriented Fourth-Grade Artificial Lifeform, Yang Yi has no combat ability but possesses extraordinary management and analytical capabilities.
  • Yang Yi diagnoses several inefficiencies:
    • Too much land is devoted to Blood-Coagulation Flowers.
    • Low-tier creatures and resources should be sold.
    • More Monkey Wine Springs should be purchased because they offer strong long-term returns.
    • A Breeding Card, Fully Automatic Concentrators, and Tai Sui meat should be acquired to support population growth and believer cultivation.
  • After offering more than one hundred recommendations, Yang Yi requests ninety percent resource-allocation authority and control over assets below B-rank. Yang Fan grants it without hesitation.
  • Yang Yi quickly restructures the Divine Kingdom, spending six billion Faith Points on three additional Monkey Wine Springs and selling many previously purchased low-tier assets.
  • The chapter ends with an updated overview of Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom. Although the Midterm Exam caused heavy losses among believers and mortals, Yang Fan expects the population to recover through Breeding Cards and his Evolution Talent.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan recognizes the vast gap between his own abilities and Yang Yi’s intelligence. Rather than trying to manage everything himself, he accepts his limitations and delegates authority.
  • His willingness to trust Yang Yi reflects growing maturity and practicality. He realizes that effective leadership involves using capable subordinates instead of personally controlling every decision.
  • Yang Yi establishes herself as an efficient, loyal, and highly analytical administrator. She immediately begins optimizing the Divine Kingdom’s economy, agriculture, population, and infrastructure.
  • Luo Chengfeng remains a blunt but knowledgeable mentor. His sarcastic reaction to Yang Fan’s wealth highlights Yang Fan’s unusual good fortune.

Significant Themes

  • Delegation and self-awareness: Yang Fan’s greatest decision is acknowledging that Yang Yi can manage the Divine Kingdom far better than he can.
  • Efficiency versus personal control: The chapter emphasizes the advantages of rational resource allocation and large-scale optimization.
  • Technological superiority: Yang Yi demonstrates the extraordinary power of the Mechanical Divine Kingdom and hints at the immense development of advanced artificial lifeforms.
  • Economic management and investment: The Divine Kingdom is treated as a developing enterprise, with land, population, production, and assets carefully evaluated according to profitability and long-term growth.
  • Recovery after loss: Despite the Midterm Exam’s casualties, Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom retains strong potential because of its talents, wonders, and newly improved management.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan and Luo Chengfeng discuss the price and value of High-End Artificial Lifeforms, with Luo Chengfeng teasing Yang Fan for considering twenty billion Faith Points inexpensive.
  • Yang Fan formally establishes his relationship with Yang Yi as master and subordinate, granting her authority over the Divine Kingdom.
  • Yang Yi confidently presents her assessments and recommendations, while Yang Fan questions her capabilities before ultimately trusting her judgment.
  • Their relationship quickly develops into one of capable administrator and hands-off owner: Yang Yi makes practical decisions, and Yang Fan provides broad authorization.
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Ch. 73Full of Technological Vibes

Chapter Summary: “Full of Technological Vibes”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan reviews the development of his Divine Kingdom, whose believers are growing stronger through immortal Qi, Blood Pills, body-tempering techniques, and abundant spirit fruits.
  • The Monkey Wine Springs become his main source of income. Five springs generate approximately 5 billion faith points per month, while the Sun Spring and Moonwell provide another 60 million.
  • Yang Fan reassures Luo Rou about her damaged Divine Kingdom, transferring 1 billion faith points so she can purchase enough Water of Life. He promises to find a way to eliminate the poisonous fog affecting her Divine Kingdom after they enter university.
  • The next morning, Yang Fan discovers that his Divine Kingdom has undergone a massive transformation. Four steel cities have been replaced by a vast Technological Mega-City filled with paved roads, light rails, nuclear-powered buses, and supersonic aircraft.
  • The regions around Spirit Peach Mountain have also become organized and industrialized, with towns, warehouses, automatic harvesters, transportation systems, and efficient spirit-fruit production.
  • Yang Yi explains that she spent 5 billion faith points to purchase the Technological City, which can expand to two million square kilometers and remain useful even after Yang Fan becomes a God.
  • Yang Yi also acquires five nuclear-fusion-powered supersonic planes through negotiation and plans to sell two low-yield Flat Peach Trees while purchasing a massive Fresh Produce Preservation Vault.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan is increasingly financially secure and confident in the future development of his Divine Kingdom. He recognizes that his growing resources allow him to invest in large-scale infrastructure.
  • He also demonstrates greater emotional maturity and responsibility toward Luo Rou, offering practical assistance rather than merely verbal comfort.
  • Luo Rou begins to genuinely believe in Yang Fan’s ability to save her Divine Kingdom. Her trust and emotional reliance on him deepen.
  • Yang Yi proves herself to be an exceptionally efficient and pragmatic administrator. She makes major decisions independently, prioritizing population growth, production, transportation, and long-term economic efficiency.
  • Yang Fan is initially shocked by Yang Yi’s sudden technological expansion but ultimately acknowledges that her strategy has significantly accelerated the Divine Kingdom’s progress.

Significant Themes

  • Technology and cultivation merging: The Divine Kingdom evolves into a strange but effective combination of immortal cultivation, advanced machinery, and industrial infrastructure.
  • Efficiency versus tradition: Yang Yi values productivity, transportation, population growth, and resource management over aesthetic harmony with the original primitive landscape.
  • Economic and strategic development: Faith points function as capital, allowing Yang Fan to transform his Divine Kingdom through investments in production, infrastructure, and preservation.
  • Trust and mutual support: Yang Fan’s support for Luo Rou reflects the strengthening bond between them and establishes his promise to help repair her damaged Divine Kingdom.
  • Civilization and population growth: The Divine Kingdom is shifting from a primitive society toward an organized civilization, with reproduction and population expansion becoming major priorities.

Important Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan speaks privately with Luo Rou after resolving his affairs. He offers her 1 billion faith points and promises to cure the poisonous fog in her Divine Kingdom.
  • Sun Rong teasingly warns the couple not to behave recklessly, showing her protective and amused attitude toward them.
  • Yang Yi presents the Technological City and its benefits to Yang Fan. Their discussion highlights the contrast between Yang Fan’s concern for aesthetics and Yang Yi’s strict focus on measurable development.
  • Yang Fan questions Yang Yi’s plans to sell the Flat Peach Trees and preserve the excess spirit fruits, while Yang Yi continues to approach the Divine Kingdom’s resources as an economic system requiring optimization.
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Ch. 74Class One Curriculum

Chapter Summary: “Class One Curriculum”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan and Yang Yi assess Spirit Peach Mountain’s enormous Spirit Fruit output and determine that purchasing additional Monkey Wine Springs would eventually create supply problems. Yang Yi recommends buying a Grade B Fresh Produce Warehouse instead of selling the fruit cheaply now and repurchasing it later at higher prices.
  • Impressed by Yang Yi’s efficiency, Yang Fan decides to let the Artificial Lifeform manage the Divine Kingdom’s ordinary development.
  • Yang Yi informs Yang Fan that he has become the school’s main target because Li Tianheng is harassing anyone associated with him and has offered ten million for damaging information. Yang Fan is ranked first on the school’s “Villain Must Die List.”
  • Yang Yi predicts that Yang Fan will be transferred to Class One because of his first-place Midterm Exam results. Class One focuses on practical warfare rather than theory, including:
    • Public Divine Kingdom Battlefield combat
    • Divine Kingdom Defense Battles
    • Exploration of abandoned Divine Kingdoms
  • Concerned about the danger to his believers, Yang Fan orders Yang Yi to acquire a Grade B Spirit Armory Building, a Small Mineral Vein, and funding to purchase foreign corpses for use in the Flesh Sea Blood Pond. These resources will strengthen and improve the survival of his believers.
  • Yang Fan’s homeroom teacher, Li Qingying, announces that Yang Fan and Li Shuhao are promoted to Class One, while Wang Zhenyu advances to Class Three.
  • Li Qingying gives Yang Fan a Grade D Mysterious Turtle Annihilation Formation, a powerful defensive formation worth one hundred million Faith Points. She believes mastering it will help him survive Class One’s dangerous activities.
  • Before dismissing him, Li Qingying warns Yang Fan that his future homeroom teacher, Cao Wang, has a bad temper and should not be provoked.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan: Becomes more dependent on Yang Yi and grows increasingly determined to strengthen his Divine Kingdom. He is anxious about Class One’s combat-focused curriculum but gains confidence from his resources and new defensive preparations.
  • Yang Yi: Demonstrates exceptional analytical and administrative abilities, identifying threats, predicting school developments, managing applications, and advising Yang Fan almost instantaneously. Its efficiency allows Yang Fan to delegate much of his Divine Kingdom’s management.
  • Li Tianheng: Emerges as Yang Fan’s primary enemy at school, using intimidation, social pressure, and rewards to isolate him.
  • Li Qingying: Treats Yang Fan with unusual warmth because his achievement benefits her, likely through teacher rewards. She also shows genuine concern by giving him a valuable defensive formation.
  • Zhang Pang and the other students: Become frightened of Yang Fan because of Li Tianheng’s campaign against him. Zhang Pang privately apologizes and distances himself to avoid being targeted.
  • Li Shuhao and Wang Zhenyu: Are also promoted, though their roles in the new classes are not yet explored.

Significant Themes

  • Efficiency versus personal effort: Yang Fan realizes that an advanced Artificial Lifeform can manage complex matters far more effectively than he can.
  • Preparation for conflict: Academic success leads not to safety but to increasingly dangerous practical battles, forcing Yang Fan to prepare his believers for war.
  • Power, reputation, and social isolation: Li Tianheng’s influence turns Yang Fan into a pariah despite his success, showing how power can shape public opinion and relationships.
  • Strategic development: Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom grows through calculated investments in infrastructure, resources, defensive formations, and believer strength.
  • Teacher favoritism and institutional rewards: Li Qingying’s changed attitude reflects how Yang Fan’s success benefits those around him.

Important Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan and Yang Yi: Maintain constant mental communication. Yang Yi gives strategic advice, reports threats, handles applications, and even manages Yang Fan’s messages.
  • Yang Fan and Zhang Pang: Zhang Pang avoids Yang Fan and sends an apologetic private message, demonstrating how Li Tianheng’s retaliation has damaged Yang Fan’s friendships.
  • Yang Fan and Li Qingying: Li Qingying publicly praises him, privately gifts him the Mysterious Turtle Annihilation Formation, and offers advice about surviving under Cao Wang.
  • Yang Fan and Li Tianheng: They do not meet directly in the chapter, but Li Tianheng’s campaign dominates Yang Fan’s school life and motivates his preparations for future confrontation.
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Ch. 75True Divine Kingdom Battlefield (Teaching Edition)

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan returns to reality after using the virtual battlefield and discovers that one of his believers has evolved into a Third-Order Lifeform.
  • He consults Yang Yi, his High-End Artificial Lifeform, about his ranking in Senior Year Class One. Although Yang Fan has excellent troop-replenishment abilities and his believers know the Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array, their individual strength currently places him only around 100th among 228 students.
  • Yang Yi predicts that most of Class One will soon participate in the Public Divine Kingdom Battlefield, where ten thousand believers may fight. With a century of accelerated time in his Divine Kingdom—equivalent to only ten days in reality—Yang Fan can potentially raise his believers into the top ten.
  • Yang Fan orders his believers to begin studying the Mysterious Turtle Annihilation Formation, hoping to gain a powerful defensive and battlefield formation.
  • Yang Yi continuously sells surplus resources, including Moonflower Dew, Solar Essence, Monkey Wine, and weapons, then reinvests the Faith Points into profitable resources such as Monkey Wine Springs, Moonwells, and Sun Springs. Its tireless management rapidly improves the Divine Kingdom’s economy.
  • The next day, Yang Fan enters Senior Year Class One. He encounters former acquaintances, including Luo Bing, Li Tianheng, Luo Mingxuan, Li Shuhao, and Tie Feng. Most students view him with hostility because of his past actions and conflicts.
  • Li Chengze demands that Yang Fan give up his seat. Rather than argue, Yang Fan moves to the back of the classroom, recognizing that he must regain respect through strength rather than words.
  • The new homeroom teacher, Cao Wang, introduces himself as a battle-focused instructor. He rejects lessons on peaceful Divine Kingdom development and emphasizes warfare, including attacking foreign kingdoms, resource plundering, logistics, formations, and battlefield taboos.
  • Cao Wang praises Yang Fan’s adaptability and decisiveness during the Midterm Exam but criticizes him for using those abilities against fellow students. He warns Yang Fan not to be ruthless toward humans while submitting to foreign races.
  • Cao Wang intimidates Yang Fan with a powerful Godly aura, creating the sensation of imminent death. Yang Yi reassures him that the danger is only a virtual effect. Yang Fan quickly recovers and meets Cao Wang’s cold stare.
  • Impressed by Yang Fan’s composure, Cao Wang initiates the True Divine Kingdom Battlefield teaching exercise. The students begin arranging battles with one another, while Cao Wang prepares to evaluate their individual combat weaknesses.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan: Becomes more humble and strategic. Instead of reacting angrily to Li Chengze’s provocation, he accepts the humiliation and resolves to prove himself through battlefield strength. He also begins preparing seriously for Class One’s competitive environment.
  • Yang Yi: Demonstrates its value as an tireless strategist and economic manager. It analyzes Yang Fan’s ranking, projects his future potential, manages Divine Kingdom resources, and offers reliable advice about formations and development.
  • Cao Wang: Is established as a harsh but knowledgeable military instructor. He recognizes Yang Fan’s talent but sets a strict moral boundary regarding how that talent should be used.
  • Li Chengze: Remains resentful toward Yang Fan because of past conflicts, though his loyalty and strong temper are emphasized.
  • Luo Mingxuan: Takes pleasure in Yang Fan’s reduced status and expects Class One to punish him socially and competitively.

Significant Themes

  • Strength as the basis of respect: Yang Fan accepts that dignity cannot be demanded and must instead be earned through ability.
  • Growth through pressure: Entering Class One forces Yang Fan to confront hostility, stronger rivals, and stricter standards.
  • War as a specialized discipline: Cao Wang presents Divine Kingdom warfare as requiring strategy, logistics, formations, resource management, and moral judgment—not merely raw strength.
  • Strategic development and preparation: Yang Fan’s future success depends on accelerating believer evolution, mastering formations, and carefully managing resources.
  • Human solidarity versus internal conflict: Cao Wang condemns students who betray or mistreat fellow humans while showing weakness before foreign races, introducing a broader ethical standard for warfare.
  • The value of artificial intelligence and time acceleration: Yang Yi’s tireless calculations and the Divine Kingdom’s accelerated time give Yang Fan a major long-term development advantage.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan and Yang Yi discuss his ranking, future battlefield prospects, and the training of believers in the Mysterious Turtle Annihilation Formation.
  • Yang Fan and Li Chengze clash over seating, but Yang Fan avoids escalation and silently accepts the slight.
  • Luo Mingxuan mocks Yang Fan and celebrates his apparent fall from power.
  • Cao Wang directly evaluates Yang Fan, combining praise for his tactical talent with condemnation of his previous behavior.
  • Cao Wang’s intimidation test establishes a tense teacher-student relationship and demonstrates Yang Fan’s growing mental resilience.
  • The chapter ends with Class One students challenging friends and rivals to battles on the newly activated True Divine Kingdom Battlefield.
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Ch. 76Preparing to Bare My Fangs

Chapter Summary: Preparing to Bare My Fangs

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan is left as the final unmatched student in Class One and is forced to fight Li Tianheng, despite knowing Li’s forces are overwhelmingly stronger.
  • Li Tianheng summons ten Fifth-Order believers along with large numbers of Fourth- and Third-Order believers. Yang Fan, by contrast, summons ten thousand mostly Mortal believers.
  • Li Tianheng’s army massacres Yang Fan’s forces within moments, covering the battlefield in blood and shocking the other students.
  • Teacher Cao Wang criticizes both students: Yang Fan for avoiding a meaningful battle and Li Tianheng for using class as an opportunity for personal revenge. He orders them to reflect and ends the match.
  • Afterward, Li Tianheng threatens Yang Fan with daily challenges designed to exhaust his population. Yang Fan is unconcerned, knowing his SSS-Rank Evolution Talent and rapidly growing population can absorb the losses.
  • For several days, members of Li Tianheng’s group repeatedly challenge Yang Fan. On the seventh day, Luo Bing becomes his opponent and allows him to surrender immediately, frustrating Li Tianheng.
  • After another five days—equivalent to fifty years in Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom—his population surpasses ten million. His believers include over one million First-Order Lifeforms, thousands of Second- and Third-Order Lifeforms, and his first Fourth-Order Lifeform.
  • Assessing his improved strength, Yang Fan concludes that only Luo Bing and Li Tianheng are clearly superior to him in Class One. He decides that he must stop appearing weak and prepare to fight back.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan: Initially cautious and resigned to surrendering, Yang Fan gradually gains confidence as his Divine Kingdom grows. His Evolution Talent allows him to replenish losses quickly, and he realizes he can now withstand Li Tianheng’s attacks. He begins shifting from defensive survival to preparing a calculated display of strength.
  • Li Tianheng: Reveals himself as proud, vindictive, and obsessed with revenge after Yang Fan embarrassed him earlier. Although powerful, his narrow-mindedness is condemned by Cao Wang. His repeated challenges show his desire to wear Yang Fan down rather than defeat him in a fair contest.
  • Luo Bing: Demonstrates both overwhelming confidence and restraint by allowing Yang Fan to surrender without slaughtering his believers. Her willingness to disregard Li Tianheng’s authority highlights her exceptional status in the class.
  • Cao Wang: Though previously seeming hostile toward Yang Fan, he proves to be a principled teacher who values meaningful training and hates the misuse of power against fellow students. He emphasizes military duty and opposition to foreign races.
  • The Classmates: Many students enjoy seeing Yang Fan’s forces destroyed because of his earlier actions during the midterm exam, revealing lingering resentment and group hostility toward him.

Significant Themes

  • Hidden strength and strategic patience: Yang Fan conceals his true potential while building his population and improving his believers.
  • Revenge versus purpose: Li Tianheng uses his strength for personal retaliation, while Cao Wang argues that power should serve the greater struggle against foreign races.
  • Growth through endurance: Yang Fan survives repeated attacks because his Evolution Talent and expanding population make losses manageable.
  • Power and perception: Others mistake Yang Fan’s willingness to surrender for weakness, prompting him to prepare a demonstration that will change their view.
  • Teacher-student responsibility: Cao Wang’s reprimand stresses that education and combat training should have genuine value rather than become outlets for childish grudges.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan privately consults Yang Yi before facing Li Tianheng and chooses to surrender quickly rather than waste his believers.
  • Li Tianheng openly humiliates Yang Fan in battle and later threatens to arrange daily challenges against him.
  • Cao Wang confronts both students, condemning Yang Fan’s meaningless defense and Li Tianheng’s vindictive behavior.
  • Luo Bing gives Yang Fan an easy surrender, indirectly undermining Li Tianheng and exposing the difference in their standings.
  • By the chapter’s conclusion, Yang Fan decides that continued passivity will only invite further bullying and resolves to “bare his fangs.”
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Ch. 77Revealing His Strength, Taking Revenge

Chapter Summary: “Revealing His Strength, Taking Revenge”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Yang Fan enters the Divine Kingdom Battlefield to fight Luo Mingxuan, who has deliberately challenged him in a life-and-death battle.
  • Other students, including Li Chengze and Li Tianheng, expect Luo Mingxuan to avenge their humiliation and inflict heavy losses on Yang Fan.
  • Luo Mingxuan reveals a significantly improved force: one Fourth-Order believer, twenty Third-Order believers, hundreds of Second-Order believers, and thousands of First-Order believers.
  • Yang Fan shocks everyone by revealing that he possesses an even stronger army: one Fourth-Order believer, three hundred Third-Order believers, six thousand Second-Order believers, and a large number of First-Order believers.
  • His troops are also equipped with superior D-Grade weapons and have benefited from years of training in the Spirit Ice Workshop. Combined with Yang Fan’s mastered Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array, they overwhelm Luo Mingxuan’s forces.
  • Luo Mingxuan realizes he cannot win and immediately surrenders, but Yang Fan orders his army to continue attacking. Luo’s entire force is destroyed, while Yang Fan loses only slightly more than eight hundred First-Order believers.
  • After the battle, Cao Wang criticizes the students for fighting so brutally. Yang Fan declares that anyone who wants a true life-and-death battle with him must announce it beforehand, confidently establishing his dominance.
  • Cao Wang advises Yang Fan to replace his weak F-Grade array with offensive and defensive D-Grade arrays, showing unexpected concern for his development.
  • Cao Wang then harshly berates Luo Mingxuan for having poor fundamentals and relying on forced cultivation, leaving Luo humiliated and close to tears. Yang Fan laughs and quickly leaves the Virtual World to avoid further lectures.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan: Reveals that he had concealed much of his strength during the Midterm Exam. His believers are now among the strongest in the class, and he openly shifts from hiding his power to asserting authority. He also demonstrates increasing confidence and ruthlessness in battle.
  • Luo Mingxuan: Attempts to act as an avenger for the other students but is completely outmatched. His supposedly powerful Fourth-Order believer is exposed as artificially strengthened and poorly founded. His pride collapses after his army is annihilated and Cao Wang insults him.
  • Li Chengze and Li Tianheng: Both are enraged upon discovering that Yang Fan had hidden his true strength. Their earlier confidence turns into frustration and regret, especially because they had underestimated him during the Midterm Exam.
  • Cao Wang: Though sarcastic and harsh, he shows that he is genuinely invested in Yang Fan’s growth by recommending better arrays. His blunt criticism also exposes Luo Mingxuan’s weaknesses.

Significant Themes

  • Hidden strength and strategic concealment: Yang Fan’s decision to disguise his power allowed him to surprise his rivals and now gives him a decisive advantage.
  • Revenge and deterrence: The battle serves as Yang Fan’s retaliation against classmates who repeatedly targeted him. By destroying Luo Mingxuan’s forces, he warns others not to challenge him carelessly.
  • Foundations versus superficial power: Luo Mingxuan’s forced Fourth-Order believer appears impressive but is ineffective because its foundation is unstable. The chapter emphasizes that genuine preparation, equipment, training, and coordination matter more than rank alone.
  • Pride and humiliation: Luo’s challenge is motivated by pride, but his defeat and Cao Wang’s insults leave him humiliated. Yang Fan, meanwhile, gains status by revealing his true capabilities.
  • Teacher guidance beneath harshness: Cao Wang’s severe manner masks practical advice and concern for his students’ development.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan and Luo Mingxuan: Luo attempts to intimidate Yang Fan and promises not to stop even if he surrenders. Yang responds calmly, then decisively destroys Luo’s army, turning the confrontation into a demonstration of superiority.
  • Li Chengze and Li Tianheng: They discuss Luo’s chances and reveal their shared resentment toward Yang Fan. After Yang displays his true strength, they are shocked and furious that he had deceived them.
  • Yang Fan and Cao Wang: Cao criticizes Yang’s excessive brutality, while Yang defends himself by claiming he was merely responding to others’ hostility. Cao then offers strategic advice about arrays.
  • Cao Wang and Luo Mingxuan: Cao publicly humiliates Luo, criticizing both his array and the unstable cultivation of his believers. Yang finds the exchange amusing and leaves before Cao can turn his criticism toward him.
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Ch. 78Is an All-Out Battle Worth It?

Chapter Summary: Is an All-Out Battle Worth It?

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Cao Wang earns the continued respect of Senior Year Class One because of his strict but fair teaching and strong professional ethics.
  • Luo Mingxuan remains furious after Yang Fan’s earlier victory and vows revenge, while Yang Fan’s later practical battles become mostly friendly sparring matches.
  • Unable to properly teach the profound D-Grade Mysterious Turtle Annihilation Formation, Yang Fan follows Cao Wang’s advice and has his believers study two E-Grade formations:
    • Heaven-Locking Formation, specializing in defense and restraint.
    • God-Slaying Formation, specializing in killing and breaking formations.
  • More than a month after the Midterm Exam, Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom develops rapidly. Its population reaches nearly forty million, the maximum it can support, and its daily faith income rises to 360.4 Faith Points.
  • Yang Yi improves the Divine Kingdom’s infrastructure by operating five Fully Automatic Concentrators and purchasing additional Supersonic Planes to distribute Spirit Fruits. Believers enjoy abundant food and increasingly healthy lives.
  • Yang Fan estimates that, with his Evolution Talent and the time remaining before the College Entrance Exam, he may be able to break through to the Demigod realm.
  • In the Divine Kingdom Battlefield, Li Tianheng confronts Yang Fan. He is frustrated that Yang Fan previously avoided a serious fight by offering him mortal believers to kill.
  • Li Tianheng demands an all-out battle, promising to end their conflict afterward and become strangers. Yang Fan accepts, but warns that Li Tianheng must not seek revenge later if he loses.
  • Li Tianheng summons eleven Fifth-Order Lifeforms, several Fourth-Order Lifeforms, and many Third-Order Lifeforms. Yang Fan responds by summoning all his strongest believers: 100 Fourth-Order, 3,310 Third-Order, and numerous Second-Order Lifeforms.
  • Although Li Tianheng’s individual believers are stronger, Yang Fan’s forces possess the Great Accomplishment-level Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array, giving them the potential to inflict serious losses.
  • The chapter ends before the battle begins, with Li Chengze and Luo Bing questioning whether Li Tianheng should risk his high-level believers so close to the College Entrance Exam.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan becomes increasingly powerful and confident. His physical body grows stronger, his Divine Kingdom reaches its population limit, and his faith production advances him significantly toward Demigodhood. He also shows flexibility by allowing his believers to learn formations independently.
  • Li Tianheng is revealed as powerful but emotionally driven. His pride and anger compel him to demand a decisive fight, despite the strategic danger of losing valuable believers before the entrance examination.
  • Cao Wang continues to act as a perceptive and fair instructor. He recognizes Li Tianheng’s battlefield potential but is also exasperated by his impulsive personality.
  • Luo Mingxuan remains hostile toward Yang Fan, though he does not directly participate in this chapter’s conflict.
  • Li Chengze and Luo Bing display greater strategic caution than Li Tianheng, recognizing that even a victory could come at an unacceptable cost.

Significant Themes

  • Strength versus strategy: Li Tianheng has stronger individual believers, but Yang Fan’s formations and numerical advantage may offset that superiority.
  • Pride and emotional control: Li Tianheng’s desire for revenge conflicts with the practical need to preserve his forces for the College Entrance Exam.
  • Rapid growth and preparation: Yang Fan’s Divine Kingdom demonstrates how infrastructure, abundant resources, talent, and time can create overwhelming long-term development.
  • The cost of victory: The chapter asks whether proving one’s strength or satisfying personal anger is worth sacrificing irreplaceable high-level believers.
  • Fairness and leadership: Cao Wang’s impartiality and Yang Fan’s willingness to let his believers develop independently contrast with the more personal and emotional motivations driving the impending battle.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan and Cao Wang maintain a teacher-student relationship based on mutual respect, with Cao Wang advising him on formations and evaluating his combat weaknesses.
  • Yang Fan and Li Tianheng confront their unresolved conflict. Yang Fan remains calm and accommodating, while Li Tianheng is openly angry and demands complete commitment.
  • Cao Wang reprimands Li Tianheng for his loud, immature behavior before forcing both students onto the arena.
  • Li Chengze and Luo Bing observe the confrontation and privately worry that Li Tianheng’s anger may lead him into a strategically disastrous battle.
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Ch. 79The Shameless Fear the Desperate

Chapter Summary: The Shameless Fear the Desperate

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Luo Bing acknowledges that Yang Fan has hidden considerable strength, believing he could rank among the top five in the Luo Family’s Divine Simulation Battle rankings.
  • Li Tianheng hesitates to attack because the College Entrance Exam is approaching and a serious battle could damage his future prospects. Yang Fan suggests ending the confrontation with a simple spar.
  • Remembering their former brotherly relationship, Li Tianheng loses control and activates his Berserk Blood talent, ordering his believers to attack Yang Fan’s forces seriously.
  • Yang Fan is frustrated because he never intended to fight to the death. He wanted only to display his strength, force Li Tianheng to back down, and possibly resolve their hostility.
  • The two armies clash. Li Tianheng leads three Fifth-Order believers through Yang Fan’s formation, killing several of Yang Fan’s elite soldiers. However, Yang Fan’s Myriad Spirits Return-to-Origin Array rapidly fills gaps in the formation, allowing his forces to counterattack and injure one of Li Tianheng’s powerful believers.
  • Cao Wang intervenes, warning that continued fighting could cause both sides to lose large numbers of high-level believers and jeopardize their College Entrance Exam results. Since the Virtual World’s rules prevent outside interference, he pressures Li Tianheng to stop by threatening to contact his father.
  • Both sides finally agree to end the battle. Yang Fan immediately recalls his believers and leaves, relieved that his losses were limited.
  • Li Chengze and other Li Family geniuses advise Li Tianheng to avoid direct conflict with Yang Fan until after the exam. They believe Yang Fan’s lack of family backing will eventually leave him behind, while the Li descendants can deal with him later after becoming Gods.
  • Cao Wang sends Li Tianheng’s father the battle footage along with a warning that Li Tianheng’s temperament needs correction.
  • The following day, Cao Wang explains that Divine Simulation Battles are the foundation for future large-scale warfare and announces that the first College Entrance Exam test will be based on arena combat, worth 100 credits. Students ranked within the county’s top ten thousand may receive full marks automatically.

Character Developments

  • Yang Fan: Demonstrates strong tactical ability and disciplined control over his forces. He remains pragmatic, preferring development and cooperation over pointless conflict, but becomes increasingly wary of Li Tianheng’s impulsiveness.
  • Li Tianheng: Reveals himself to be powerful but emotionally volatile and reckless. His anger overrides his strategic judgment, causing him to risk valuable forces and his future exam performance.
  • Li Chengze: Acts as the more rational and cautious Li Family member, persuading Li Tianheng to postpone revenge and avoid damaging the family’s interests.
  • Cao Wang: Takes on the role of an exasperated but responsible teacher, trying to protect his students’ futures and the school’s reputation.
  • Luo Bing: Gains a more serious and respectful view of Yang Fan after witnessing his hidden strength.

Significant Themes

  • Recklessness versus pragmatism: Li Tianheng’s emotional aggression contrasts with Yang Fan’s practical desire to avoid unnecessary losses.
  • The danger of pride and anger: Li Tianheng’s wounded pride nearly causes a destructive battle that could have harmed his future.
  • Family power and social status: The Li Family assumes that its resources and lineage will eventually surpass Yang Fan, who is viewed as an outsider despite his talent.
  • Strategic restraint: Strength alone is not enough; controlling one’s forces and preserving resources are essential in the Divine Kingdom world.
  • Competition and future ambition: The approaching College Entrance Exam raises the stakes, transforming personal conflicts into risks affecting each character’s long-term advancement.

Character Interactions

  • Yang Fan attempts to de-escalate the confrontation, but Li Tianheng interprets the situation through resentment and attacks.
  • Their armies engage in a serious battle, demonstrating both Yang Fan’s defensive formations and Li Tianheng’s aggressive leadership.
  • Cao Wang forcibly mediates and threatens to involve Li Tianheng’s father.
  • Li Chengze and other Li Family geniuses reinforce Li Tianheng’s hostility toward Yang Fan while advising delayed retaliation.
  • Cao Wang communicates directly with Li Tianheng’s father, turning the incident into a family disciplinary matter.
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Ch. 80Truth

Chapter Summary: “Truth”

Key Plot Points and Events

  • Teacher Cao Wang challenges the class’s idealistic understanding of the War School’s purpose. He explains that warfare against Foreign-Race Gods is fundamentally driven by the need to obtain resources and strengthen one’s Divine Kingdom, even though it also protects Human Race civilization.
  • He argues that humans and foreign races are not inherently different or evil: all living beings are motivated by survival, growth, and self-interest. War is presented as an endless cycle in which strength enables resource acquisition, which leads to greater strength and further wars.
  • Cao Wang explains the three essential duties of a War School student during an invasion:
    1. Destroy the enemy’s believers and Divine Kingdom Core.
    2. Protect one’s own Divine Kingdom after exposing its coordinates.
    3. Thoroughly collect and process the enemy’s resources.
  • He reveals that the College Entrance Exam tests these same three abilities: combat, resource collection, and defensive warfare, each worth 100 credits.
  • Cao Wang announces a four-month resource-collection competition. The students receive the coordinates of a First-Order Foreign-Race God’s Divine Kingdom, whose God and Core have already been destroyed.
  • Although the school has taken the most valuable assets, the students may collect remaining spirit plants, demon beasts, buildings, and other resources. Their results will determine the rankings.
  • The competition will provide 120 years of exploration time within the Divine Kingdom and serve as the students’ main preparation for the College Entrance Exam. Cao Wang recommends teamwork because the Divine Kingdom is too vast to explore individually.
  • Classes are suspended until further notice, and Cao Wang leaves the Virtual World.

Character Developments

  • Cao Wang shifts from a conventional military instructor into a blunt, realistic teacher who reveals the political and economic foundations of war. He emphasizes practical survival, resource management, and strategic thinking over heroic ideals.
  • Luo Bing demonstrates her status as class monitor by confidently repeating the textbook explanation of the War School’s mission. She later appears unsettled by the practical danger of invading a God’s Divine Kingdom.
  • Li Tianheng shows confidence but limited strategic understanding when he identifies only the need to kill enemy believers and destroy the Divine Kingdom Core. His failure to name defensive and logistical concerns exposes a gap in his education.
  • Yang Fan is indirectly highlighted when Cao Wang recalls that the previous Midterm Exam suffered severe casualties because of him. The incident has damaged the school’s reputation and caused some families to withdraw investment.
  • The class as a whole moves from surprise and fear to excitement when they learn that the target God is already dead and that its remaining resources can be claimed.

Significant Themes

  • The reality behind idealism: Heroic language about protecting humanity masks the self-interested pursuit of resources and power.
  • Human and foreign-race similarity: Both sides are driven by the same instinct for survival and growth, making conflict a natural consequence of life rather than a simple battle between good and evil.
  • Strength and fate: Individuals can only control their destinies by continually becoming stronger.
  • War as both destruction and preservation: Although war is motivated by profit, it unintentionally protects civilization by forcing powerful beings to defend humanity.
  • Preparation and practical knowledge: Victory depends not only on combat strength but also on defense, resource extraction, cooperation, and efficient management.
  • Social hierarchy: Cao Wang suggests that different educational tracks reflect social classes, with War School students positioned to pursue greater power while Logistics School students form the supporting “capillaries” of society.

Character Interactions

  • Cao Wang questions Luo Bing about the War School’s mission, then contradicts her textbook answer to provoke the class into reconsidering its assumptions.
  • He calls on Li Tianheng to explain invasion strategy. Li Tianheng gives an incomplete answer, and Cao Wang criticizes him before explaining the three required priorities.
  • Cao Wang addresses the entire class when announcing the competition and warning them not to underestimate the dangers of a Divine Kingdom.
  • The students react collectively with fear when they hear they will be given a God’s coordinates, then regain confidence after learning that the God is already dead.
  • Cao Wang’s brief glance toward Yang Fan connects the new assignment to the disastrous previous examination, creating tension around Yang Fan’s past actions.
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