Chapter Summaries

An Kai entered seclusion to bind himself to the Wealth Abyss Lord Token, leaving Wayne to lead Goodness Home as the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord probed their control of the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Fifty-seven years passed in the standoff, with only one year until the Wealth Abyss Grand Lord selection and five days until the first single-player closed beta.

• An Kai prepared a guarded underground seclusion site, gained Attribute Points from the Blood Puppet's humans, and bound himself to the Abyss Lord Token, falling asleep as the succession began.
• While An Kai remained in seclusion, Wayne ordered the Elven Queen to scout the newly opened Insect Realm Passage.
• Wayne reported that Goodness Home had taken over the second Insect Realm, disrupted a ritual turning its humans into long-lived species, and diverted the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord's blame onto the Elven Queen.
• After Wayne reported unfamiliar creatures entering the Hundred Thousand Mountains, Goodness Home's leaders resolved to kill anyone who entered with hostile intentions and began hunting intruders.
• The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord repeatedly tested Goodness Home's strength for fifty-seven years, leaving one year until the Wealth Abyss Grand Lord selection and five days until the first single-player closed beta.

After fifty-seven years of An Kai’s absence, the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord prepared to open a passage from the Hundred Thousand Mountains to the Divine Realm, while Goodness Home debated how to respond. An Kai returned just as the meeting reached a deadlock.

• The Green Demon Grand Lord resolved to find the passage to the Wealth Abyss and return before the Grand Lord Election.
• Ten Lords seized most of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, but Goodness Home’s Tier Eight and Tier Nine Mages helped it retain one-fifth of its territory.
• The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord decided to open the secret passage between the Hundred Thousand Mountains and the Divine Realm to force An Kai to respond.
• At Goodness Home’s assembly, Brian William and Teacher A Ken urged the Mages to fight the ten Lords, but the meeting stalled over how to face the coming invasion.
• An Kai entered the meeting hall after fifty-seven years in seclusion, and the attendees recognized him.

After returning from a 57-year lord succession, An Kai strengthened Goodness Home by elevating 629 Tier Nine, Level Ten residents into the Earth tier. He prepared to strike the ten lords in five days, just as the first single-player test began in Goodness Home.

• An Kai appeared in Goodness Home, reassured Wayne and the others, and refreshed the Beast Taming marks on younger generations of controlled races.
• An Kai reviewed Goodness Home’s situation, his advancement requirements, and the threat posed by ten allied lords invading the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• An Kai ordered all 629 Tier Nine, Level Ten residents to gather, then created Lord Cores that raised them into the Earth tier.
• An Kai stopped the newly advanced residents from attacking immediately and declared that they would strike in five days, when they could draw an audience.
• An Kai organized Goodness Home’s accumulated resources and began his own upgrades before the first single-player test began five days later.

Li Dabao, the first player to enter Divine Punishment Game, repeatedly leveled up by breathing but mistook Goodness Home’s residents for ordinary NPCs and insulted them. An Kai appeared briefly before Polpi turned Li Dabao over to the residents, who tortured him to cure his gaming addiction.

• Li Dabao burst apart after breathing too hard, respawned, and discovered that cautious breathing quickly raised his level.
• Li Dabao mocked the goblins and other residents, who grew furious while Polpi guided him toward the Inner City.
• An Kai appeared before Li Dabao, ordered Polpi to carry on as usual, and vanished.
• Polpi dropped his friendly act, had Li Dabao nailed to a board, and let an orc and a merfolk torture him until he passed out.
• An Kai watched Li Dabao’s ordeal through Beast Taming and Contract while an Elven Maid fed him a cold drink.

An Kai used Li Dabao as a witness to Goodness Home’s war against the Stone Giants, hoping the horrors would discourage other players from joining. Instead, Li Dabao praised Divine Descent online and returned, eager to become an official resident of Goodness Home.

• An Kai upgraded his physical talents and spells, then prepared to attack the other Lords and claim the Wealth Abyss Grand Lord position.
• Polpi and others tortured Li Dabao through the night, while An Kai ordered Brian William to keep him from logging out if he stayed conscious.
• Goodness Home sent 500 of its 629 Earth powerhouses to exterminate the Stone Giants and reclaim territory in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Brian William’s group forced Li Dabao to watch the slaughter of the Stone Giants, including the deaths of their three Earth-realm leaders.
• Li Dabao logged out and posted a glowing account of Divine Descent, calling its simulation and AI intelligence real and urging others to play.
• After Li Dabao returned and asked how to become an official resident, An Kai wondered if he was a masochist.

An Kai tried to drive Li Dabao away from Goodness Home, but the massive battle only made Li Dabao more eager to join. After Brian William killed him to send him back to the city, Li Dabao livestreamed his return—and Polpi seized him on camera.

• An Kai realized Li Dabao enjoyed the war against the Stone Giants and ordered Brian William to send him back to the city.
• Brian William threw Li Dabao from ten thousand meters up, killing him and sending him to Ghost State, where he resolved to join Goodness Home.
• Li Dabao discovered his review video had gone viral and started a livestream to prove that Divine Descent was real.
• Li Dabao respawned in the Outer City of Goodness Home, and viewers were stunned by the realistic surroundings and NPCs.
• Polpi grabbed Li Dabao by the neck during the livestream and threatened to give him an extra helping before the broadcast went dark.

An Kai used Li Dabao’s suffering to discourage players, but a battle in the Insect Realm instead inspired Li Dabao and his viewers to seek strength. After Goodness Home crushed the ten lords’ forces, Lord Chris announced that she wanted to meet An Kai and discuss cooperation.

• An Kai trapped Li Dabao in a cave where goblins attacked him, hoping to drive him away through mental torment, but Li Dabao and his livestream viewers grew furious.
• Brian William’s forces wiped out the ten lords’ forces in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and seized the passage to the Divine Realm, prompting the ten lords to appeal to the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord.
• The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord ordered the ten lords to attack Goodness Home through an Insect Realm, while secretly preparing to unleash the Barren Abyss on the Wealth Abyss.
• An Kai learned of the planned attack through Side Story No. 31 and stationed six hundred Earth-realm beings in the Insect Realm, where they annihilated the invading forces with Forbidden Spells.
• Li Dabao survived the battle under Brian William’s protective spell and became excited by Goodness Home’s power, so An Kai killed him before he could pursue that hope.
• Wayne told An Kai that Lord Chris wanted to visit and discuss cooperation, while Li Dabao’s livestream spread online and drew players eager to enter Divine Descent and gain power.

An Kai’s forces defeated ten Wealth Abyss Lords and made them sign contracts before assigning them to help strip their territories of resources. Meanwhile, An Kai confined player Li Dabao in a pitch-dark cell, then sent Gulair to impersonate him ahead of Chris’s arrival.

• An Kai helped the Goodness Home subdue the ten Wealth Abyss Lords, and Wayne forced them and their subordinates to sign contracts.
• An Kai decided to keep Li Dabao in solitary confinement, and Wayne was put in charge of the arrangement.
• Li Dabao returned after his resurrection and found himself trapped in a dark, foul underground cell crawling with bugs.
• An Kai summoned the ten Lords and sent them back to their territories with Orcs and Giants to excavate their resources.
• An Kai assigned Gulair to impersonate him, and Gulair spent the night at the Other Races Pleasure House before leaving at dawn and asking the Orc Eighth Prince to take over the business.

An Kai’s attempt to meet Chris and secure her signature on a [Contract] stalled when she rejected the God of Magic, so he prepared to confront her himself. Meanwhile, Wayne seized on advice from Li Dabao’s livestream viewers, and An Kai arrived at the meeting with six hundred [Earth]-realm creatures.

• Nurnexius learned from Hanks that Lord Chris was coming and hurried back to the Other Races Pleasure House.
• Chris approached Goodness Home through a Sea of Fire and saw through Gulair’s disguise as An Kai’s stand-in.
• Gulair presented Chris with a [Contract], but she rejected it when she sensed the God of Magic as a guarantor.
• An Kai decided to act against Chris himself after realizing she would not sign the [Contract].
• Wayne heard Li Dabao suggest ideas for breeding Goblins and Green Demons, and recognized the Fourth Calamity could help solve his problems.
• An Kai arrived at Goodness Home’s Sea of Fire with six hundred [Earth]-realm creatures to meet Chris.

An Kai defeated and captured Chris after her uncanny luck failed against his [Windfire Burst], then forced her to sign the [Wealth Abyss Lords Mutual Support Agreement]. The next morning, An Kai woke refreshed while Chris remained in his Castle.

• An Kai's 600 [Earth] realm fighters attacked the Goodness Home cottage, but Chris and Gulair remained unharmed as the building deflected every attack.
• After the cottage collapsed, a falling piece of masonry struck Gulair when his power faltered, leaving him unconscious, and Chris faced An Kai's forces alone.
• An Kai secretly hit Chris with [Windfire Burst], leaving her unconscious, then had her sign the [Wealth Abyss Lords Mutual Support Agreement].
• An Kai recognized Chris but realized she did not recognize him, and he modified the [Contract] to forbid her from insulting, slandering, or investigating the God of Contracts or the God of Magic.
• That night, An Kai sent Nurnexius, the Elf Race maids, and others out of his Castle, leaving himself alone with Chris; the next morning, An Kai woke feeling refreshed.

An Kai benefited from Chris’s extraordinary luck, used an Energy Stone rain to raise his power, and prepared to seize the Wealth Abyss. As the Barren Abyss launched its invasion, its eighteen Lords entered a barren Wealth Abyss and encountered six energy-rich Lords fleeing toward them.

• An Kai discovered Chris had become extraordinarily lucky, and an Energy Stone rain covered his Castle grounds with stones, including top-grade ones.
• An Kai used the new resources to raise his mage level to Lv81, increase his Mage’s Body talent to Level 9, and improve his identity quality to peerless.
• An Kai ordered Wayne to expand breeding and prepare a powerful team, while the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord backed an invasion by the Barren Abyss to capture Hanks-Kai.
• With Li Dabao’s advice, Wayne increased the breeding rates of several races, and An Kai’s territories were stripped of resources as he grew stronger.
• After An Kai gave the six remaining Wealth Abyss Lords a final ultimatum, the Barren Abyss’s eighteen Lords crossed into the Wealth Abyss and found it poorer than their own realm.
• Six energy-rich Lords flew toward the newly arrived Barren Abyss forces, who regarded them as a great delicacy.

The six Lords of the [Wealth Abyss] were captured by eighteen [Barren Abyss] Lords, then led them to Goodness Home to confront An Kai. An Kai revealed Goodness Home's overwhelming forces, leaving the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Lords facing Brian William's challenge to fight.

• The six [Wealth Abyss] Lords flew toward Goodness Home and were ambushed by eighteen [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Lords from the [Barren Abyss].
• The six Lords blamed Goodness Home for the [Wealth Abyss]'s desolation, and the eighteen [Barren Abyss] Lords agreed to follow them there.
• An Kai learned that the visitors were eighteen [Sky] realm [Gold-Swallowing Bone People] and ordered Brian William to take five mage squads and two other-race squads to meet them.
• Brian William revealed seven thousand [Earth Realm] fighters at Goodness Home's gate, shocking the [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Lords and enraging them at the six [Wealth Abyss] Lords.
• Brian William asked the eighteen [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Lords whether they wanted a duel or a group fight.

Brian William forced twenty-four Abyss Lords to sign contracts and brought them to An Kai, who turned the contracts into slave contracts. An Kai’s Meditation-driven talent extraction raised Mage’s Body to Level 10, while Wayne recognized the powerful figure that appeared during the breakthrough as his teacher.

• Brian William confronted the eighteen [Gold-Swallowing Bone Person] Lords and six [Wealth Abyss] Lords with 7,000 [Earth] realm beings, then made all twenty-four sign [Abyss Lord Mutual Cooperation Contracts].
• Brian William escorted the Lords through Goodness Home to the Council Hall, where An Kai transformed their contracts into Slave Contracts.
• A surge of power knocked the Lords down, and Wayne recognized the horizon-spanning figure that appeared as his teacher, An Kai.
• An Kai’s [Mage’s Body] reached [Level 10] through [Extraction], giving him another [Imprint +1] and raising his identity and spell qualities.
• An Kai checked his improved [Meditation] effects and saw that he still needed to raise his spells and [Abyss Body-Tempering Method] talents; his stockpile had passed 800 million abyss core energy stones thanks to Li Dabao and Wayne’s Other Races Lifespan Reduction Method.

An Kai prepared Goodness Home to return to the Divine Realm, sending eighteen Gold-Swallowing Bone Person lords ahead to scout Good People Island while Goodness Home plundered the remaining Wealth Abyss territories. Meanwhile, Wayne raised Li Dabao’s affection to 59, leaving Li Dabao convinced that reaching 60 would free him even though Wayne had never promised it would.

• Wayne developed Lifespan Pills with Li Dabao’s help, extending the lives of Goodness Home’s humans and increasing An Kai’s supply of Abyss Energy Cores.
• After An Kai’s overwhelming pressure faded, Wayne took the eighteen Gold-Swallowing Bone Person lords away, while Brian William led the six remaining Wealth Abyss lords to their territories as Goodness Home’s plundering began.
• An Kai sent the eighteen Gold-Swallowing Bone Person lords back to the Divine Realm to investigate Good People Island ahead of his return.
• An Kai told Goodness Home’s leaders that he would lead an invasion of the Divine Realm after becoming Wealth Abyss Grand Lord, lifting the spirits of its goblins and other Abyss races.
• Wayne told Li Dabao that his affection had reached 59, and Li Dabao celebrated in his livestream, believing one more point would let him escape his cage.
• A viewer pointed out that Wayne had never said what reaching 60 affection would actually unlock, causing Li Dabao’s expression to freeze.

An Kai finished plundering the [Wealth Abyss], raised his spells to [Level 90], and prepared to claim the Grand Lord position. As Li Dabao’s closed beta neared its end, the Green Demon found the hidden passage back to the [Wealth Abyss], on the other side of which Li Dabao was imprisoned.

• Li Dabao asked Wayne whether reaching affinity 60 would let him leave, but Wayne vanished, prompting viewers to speculate that Goodness Home was the God of Magic’s ancient territory.
• An Kai expanded the plundering operation, used captured [Gold-Devouring Skeletons] to produce cores, and learned that Wayne had made progress on their recovery.
• An Kai’s forces stripped the [Wealth Abyss] bare, and his spells reached [Level 90] as he prepared for the Grand Lord selection the next day.
• An Kai reviewed the remaining requirements for reaching the [Earth] realm and planned to claim the [Wealth Abyss] Grand Lord position after another luck recharge with Chris.
• With twenty-two hours left in his closed beta, Li Dabao felt the ground shake and sprang to his feet.
• After a year of searching, the Green Demon found the passage to the [Wealth Abyss] beneath Good People Island, leading to the place where Li Dabao was imprisoned.

The Green Demon Grand Lord found the passage to the [Wealth Abyss] and sought help from the Taboos occupying Good People Island, unaware that An Kai had deliberately lured him there. The island’s true ruler, Taboo, revealed his long-hidden desire to reach the [Wealth Abyss] and find the Immortal.

• The Green Demon Grand Lord confirmed the passage led to the [Wealth Abyss] and flew to Evil Home to recruit its Taboos.
• An Kai explained that he had used the passage’s Persuasion to lure the Green Demon Grand Lord and prepared his forces for the coming confrontation and the [Wealth Abyss] Grand Lord selection.
• An Kai and the Lords of the [Wealth Abyss] felt an oppressive presence as the selection approached, but their hourly inspections found no abnormalities.
• The Green Demon Grand Lord arrived at Good People Island and found Goodness Home reduced to a ruin by the enormous Taboos living there.
• The Green Demon Grand Lord announced that he had found the passage, drawing four [Legend] Taboos around him and bringing their leader, Taboo, forward.
• Taboo admitted that he had spent fifty-eight years searching for a passage to the [Wealth Abyss] so he could find the Immortal.

An Kai was crowned Grand Lord of the [Wealth Abyss] in a ceremony broadcast across the Abyss, the Insect Realm, and the Divine Realm. As the Green Demon Grand Lord and five Taboos entered the Wealth Abyss, the Abyss’s enormous eye weakened the Taboos, and An Kai learned the Wealth Abyss’s true secret.

• An Kai opened the passage to the [Wealth Abyss], but an enormous vertical eye appeared and announced his coronation as Grand Lord in the year 30111 of the Abyssal Calendar.
• The coronation was broadcast throughout the Abyss and into the Insect Realm and Divine Realm, while Li Dabao realized An Kai was the Grand Lord and wondered why his name appeared red.
• The Green Demon Grand Lord and five Taboos entered the Wealth Abyss through the passage and found Li Dabao, Goodness Home’s forces, and An Kai awaiting his coronation.
• The vertical eye reduced the five Taboos to ordinary Tier Nine Taboos, then vanished after declaring it was one step ahead of the Divine Realm.
• An Kai’s crown finished forming, and he opened his eyes knowing the true secret of the Wealth Abyss and why the Green Demon Grand Lord had suffered its backlash.

After becoming Grand Lord of the [Wealth Abyss], An Kai learned its rules and discovered that his unique status protected him from its backlash. He defeated the returning Green Demon Grand Lord, enslaved five Taboos, sent them to investigate Good People Island, and appointed his allies as [Wealth Abyss] Lords.

• An Kai learned that those who used the [Wealth Abyss]'s resources had to repay tenfold, and that his permanent-employee status and Grand Lord position made the Abyss his territory.
• An Kai attacked the returning Green Demon Grand Lord with the [Beast Taming] whip and, with the Goodness Home mages' Forbidden Spells, brought him down; Li Dabao died in the blast's aftershock.
• An Kai reduced five Divine Realm Taboos to Tier Nine strength, forced them to sign slave [Contracts], and learned that the Taboo race valued members who showed independent ideas.
• An Kai sent the five Taboos, eighteen Long-Lived Species [Necromancers], and ten million Abyss creatures to investigate Good People Island and prepare for his arrival.
• An Kai stripped sixteen Lords of their positions and appointed his allies, including Nurnexius, to the [Wealth Abyss] Lord seats.

An Kai completed his preparations to return to the Divine Realm, upgraded his physical talents, and led Goodness Home through the passage from the Wealth Abyss. As he arrived, thunder cracked overhead, interrupting his triumphant return.

• An Kai postponed inheriting the Wealth Abyss Grand Lord title and continued gathering energy cores while Wayne’s breeding methods increased production.
• An Kai learned that the awakened Divine Realm was rich in energy and that the Desert Crocodiles had grown into a powerful force in the Chaos Sea.
• Li Dabao failed to reach An Kai before his closed beta ended, then shared his experiences and speculation that An Kai was the God of Magic, helping fill the second beta’s ten thousand slots.
• An Kai gathered his forces around Good People Island, opened the Wealth Abyss’s Insect Realm Passage, and upgraded Abyss Body: Guard and Worldbreaking Technique: Strength after collecting one billion Lord Energy Cores.
• An Kai led Chris and the Goodness Home Mage Association through the passage into the Divine Realm, where thunder erupted immediately upon his arrival.

An Kai returned to the Divine Realm as Grand Lord of the [Wealth Abyss], and its power of heaven and earth initially treated him as a traitor. After he overwhelmed its storm with his strength, it welcomed him back and began projecting his advancement to the [Earth Realm] across the Divine Realm, leading the Five Great Continents’ overlords to send [nirvana: origin tracing] envoys to [Chaos].

• An Kai arrived in the Divine Realm, where the power of heaven and earth summoned a storm because his status as Grand Lord bound him to the [Wealth Abyss].
• An Kai displayed his greatly enhanced magic, physical talents, and combat abilities, then unleashed his full strength and scattered the storm clouds.
• The power of heaven and earth abandoned its hostility and began An Kai’s advancement from Tier Nine to the [Earth Realm], projecting him throughout the Divine Realm and the Insect Realms.
• Overlords across the Five Great Continents, including Taboo, saw An Kai’s projection and suspected he was advancing beyond [nirvana].
• The Five Great Continents sent [nirvana: origin tracing] envoys to [Chaos] to investigate An Kai’s strength while respecting the region’s limits.