Chapter Summaries

An Kai used Goodness Home’s representatives and a staged attack on the Divine Court Fourth Layer to turn the Five Great Powers against the Long-Lived Species. The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord entered the Divine Realm to expose An Kai, only to meet An Kai himself at the former site of Nameless Town.

• An Kai revealed the powerful [Elemental Archer] spell, while Reed and Polpi followed Wayne’s instructions to keep Goodness Home’s representatives inconspicuous at the conference.
• A genuine Long-Lived Species finger and a report that the [Divine Court Fourth Layer] had been wiped out stirred chaos at the conference and convinced the Five Great Powers that the Long-Lived Species were seeking an escape route.
• The [Lord of Life] was caught skinning Southern Continent Magical Beasts, further enraging the clan, while the supposed Long-Lived Species cordoned off the [Divine Court Fourth Layer].
• The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord learned that An Kai had framed his people, then sent his [nirvana: self-realization] doppelganger into the Divine Realm to expose An Kai.
• At the former site of Nameless Town, the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord found An Kai waiting for him, and An Kai announced that he had come to kill him.

An Kai trapped and destroyed the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord’s doppelganger before it could expose his identities, then framed it for the [Lord of Desire] attacks. As An Kai spent the next year expanding his power, three stone steles rose beneath Good People Island and a crushing heavenly might descended.

• An Kai used [Prison Will] and his offensive spells to kill the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord’s doppelganger, then destroyed its recovering Immortal’s Finger by exposing it to the energy-starved Otherworld.
• The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord learned that his doppelganger had died but could not determine who had killed it.
• An Kai used the doppelganger’s aura to implicate the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord in the disappearance of Nameless Town’s inhabitants, and the Five Great Powers linked him to the [Lord of Desire] and the [Undead Overlord].
• Over the next year, An Kai enslaved more forces, gathered [World Cores], and increased his strength while the Five Great Powers focused on other threats.
• An overwhelming heavenly might descended, and three stone steles rose from beneath Good People Island as An Kai and the others watched the temperature fall.

Three stone tablets revealed rankings of Heaven’s Chosen and divinities, exposing powerful figures unknown to An Kai and the wider realms. An Kai concealed his identity on the Godkin Ranking, then discovered Will-Bukelin listed in its last place.

• The Heaven’s Chosen Ranking appeared, placing Hade first, Araya second, and revealing that the Five Great Powers were outranked by hidden figures.
• The Divine Realm’s leaders reacted to the ranking, while the Chaos Sea’s factions panicked over the Undead Sovereign’s entry and the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord rejected his forty-ninth place.
• The Divinity Ranking appeared and listed the gods, including the God of Magic in third place and Lady Luck in one hundredth.
• An Kai learned that the Godkin Ranking had been delayed, tried several false names, and chose to conceal his identity.
• An Kai spotted Will-Bukelin listed as the one-thousandth entry on the Godkin Ranking.

An Kai discovered that Will-Bukelin had fallen into an eternal slumber rather than died, and ordered Good People Island excavated in hopes of finding the rankings’ steles. The new rankings reshaped the Divine Realm’s alliances and power balance, while a meeting of the Five Great Powers began with the Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Lion King attacking Dong Mu over their seating positions.

• An Kai read Will-Bukelin’s [Godkin Ranking] entry and learned that Will and Sally Bukelin had sacrificed themselves to save victims of the Calamity but had entered an eternal slumber.
• Moved by the possibility that Will was still alive, An Kai ordered Good People Island excavated, and Goodness Home recalled Orcs from the [Desire Abyss] to dig into the island’s extreme heat.
• The Divine Realm’s Five Great Powers reconsidered their strength and alliances after the rankings appeared, concluded that the [Lord of Desire] was not the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord, and paused their war as they prepared to protect their standing.
• The leaders of the Five Great Powers met in the [Chaos Sea], with Central Continent’s Taboo presiding and the Southern Continent Magical Beasts and Northern Continent’s [Divine Remnant] challenging their old seating order.
• The Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Lion King confronted Dong Mu over his higher ranking, then struck him while demanding that he give up his seat.

An Kai repeatedly strengthened his spells with World Cores, climbing the Godkin Ranking and shocking the realms. After earning a Teaching opportunity, he chose to teach Meditation and appeared before the ranking’s audience as the representative of kindness.

• Taboo of the Central Continent forced Dong Mu and Fallen to yield their seats, then the five leaders debated whether to make war or peace.
• An Kai focused on monitoring the Divine Court Fourth Layer and raised Meditation Method "Element," "Starry Sky" with a World Core, advancing on the Godkin Ranking.
• The ranking’s appearance shocked the realms; Araya ordered the passage to the Divine Realm opened, while Hade and other Heaven’s Chosen reconsidered their standing.
• An Kai continued improving his spells and climbed the Godkin Ranking until he earned a Teaching opportunity for rising twenty times within a year.
• An Kai chose to teach Meditation and appeared in the minds of beings across the Divine Realm, Insect Realm, and Abyss, introducing himself as the representative of kindness.

An Kai appeared through the [Godkin Ranking] as a beacon of goodness and taught the [Meditation Method], but few beings trusted or resonated with his message. After receiving only [Spell Inscription +1], he used it to enhance [Skywhip], then raised his [spell level] the following night and caused the ranking to appear again.

• An Kai appeared through the [Godkin Ranking] and proclaimed himself an embodiment of goodness, alarming the Abyss and making the Divine Realm's Five Great Powers suspect he planned to seize their territory.
• Wayne recognized the golden figure as his teacher, An Kai, and recalled his teacher's lessons about being a bandit.
• An Kai taught the [Meditation Method], but few beings resonated with him, so he received only [Spell Inscription +1] as feedback.
• An Kai used the [Spell Inscription] opportunity on [Skywhip], hoping to strengthen the spell that had helped him command Orcs, Goblins, and Green Demons.
• The next night, An Kai raised his [spell level], making the [Godkin Ranking] reappear and freezing countless beings in surprise.

An Kai raised all six inscribed spells to Lv120, earned another Godkin Ranking Instruction, and used a Slaughter-themed lesson to draw attention away from the opening of the Divine Court Fourth Layer. With most powerful beings distracted by his claims about hidden legacies, An Kai entered the Fourth Layer, where Goudan said he had seen his teacher.

• An Kai raised Skywhip to Lv120, reached Godkin Ranking 897, and received an Instruction opportunity for advancing more than 100 places.
• After hearing that the Divine Court Fourth Layer had opened, An Kai delivered an Instruction that framed the Meditation Method as part of his Slaughter Method and drew an enthusiastic response.
• An Kai claimed that legacies he had left in the Abyss, hidden Insect Realms, and mysterious Divine Realm locations could lead others to him, prompting many beings to search the Abyss Fifth Layer.
• The search for An Kai's supposed legacy diverted powerful beings from the Divine Court Fourth Layer, leaving only a few unaffiliated beings and a small contingent from the Five Great Powers there.
• An Kai entered the Divine Court Fourth Layer with Goudan, who said he thought he had seen his teacher.

An Kai and Goudan entered the [Divine Court Fourth Layer], where Goudan pretended his teacher had approved their dismantling of the palaces so An Kai could collect their valuable materials. Meanwhile, An Kai’s earlier teaching earned him the unique [Divine Domain Prototype] from the [Godkin Ranking].

• An Kai switched to his doppelganger after Goudan claimed he had spotted his teacher, then acted warmly toward Goudan to avoid offending the teacher inside the [Divine Court Fourth Layer].
• An Kai had Goudan enter the palace marked "Mage One" and announce his visit and request permission to take the palaces, treating silence as approval.
• Goudan transformed into a giant and demolished the palaces while An Kai collected the energy-rich rubble.
• An Kai’s earlier [Meditation Method] teaching drew attention away from the [Divine Court Fourth Layer], leaving it under the control of his [Undead Overlord] identity.
• The [Godkin Ranking] rewarded An Kai with the unique [Divine Domain Prototype], which could help his domain evolve into a true [Divine Domain].

An Kai and Goudan demolished the [Divine Court Fourth Layer] until its master appeared and seized them, then reversed time and absorbed the realm into An Kai. Their disappearance split Goodness Home, leaving many behind in the Divine Realm while An Kai found himself before the true [Divine Court] of three thousand years ago.

• An Kai reasoned that his [Godkin Ranking] teaching resonated because he voiced beings’ selfish thoughts, then ordered Goudan to strip the [Divine Court Fourth Layer] for resources and anything related to [Domain].
• The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord faced a siege of the Abyss Fifth Layer and an attack by the Grand Lord of the Abyss Sixth Layer, while mistakenly believing the "Immortal" was the "Lord of Slaughter's" legacy.
• An Kai and Goudan demolished the [Divine Court Fourth Layer] for a day and night, leaving only a mountain before its summit figure appeared and pulled them to him.
• The figure seized An Kai’s true body from Goodness Home, reversed time across the [Divine Court Fourth Layer], and absorbed the realm, An Kai, and Goudan into himself.
• The passage to the [Desire Abyss] vanished, stranding nearly a third of Goodness Home’s inhabitants in the Divine Realm while Wayne, Reed, and others escaped; Chris left alone after sensing a calling.
• An Kai saw the true [Divine Court] of three thousand years ago.

An Kai relived the Divine Court as a student in Teacher Goudan's classroom, where lessons shifted from cheerful discussions to forceful study after three senior brothers were erased by a god. After a long absence, Teacher Goudan returned with a frozen body and announced a lesson on analyzing a god.

• An Kai experienced Teacher Goudan's lecture, where Goudan claimed he was invincible below the gods and could take one down with him, drawing laughter from the students and disdainful barks from the Black-and-White Hound.
• An Kai attended eighty-nine lessons and mastered spell theories while remaining inside the classroom because the world outside dissolved into chaos for him.
• Teacher Goudan announced that three senior brothers had died after angering a god, and An Kai's memories of them began to disappear.
• Teacher Goudan changed his teaching approach and drilled knowledge into the students as they gradually remembered the missing brothers' faces and names: Dong Mu, Dong Lin, and Dong Sen.
• After missing lessons 469 through 498, Teacher Goudan returned for lesson 499 with a ten-meter block of ice containing a sleeping being and a bloodstained Staff, announcing that they would analyze a god's body.

An Kai watched his teacher lead the Divine Court’s experiments to create beings acknowledged by the world, while the teacher grew increasingly consumed by the research and the Divine Court descended into conflict. At the 999th lesson, the teacher created a Human-like race recognized by the Divine Realm and named them Immortals as enemies neared the classroom.

• During the 490th lesson, An Kai cut open the Rock God’s body and realized his teacher had subdued the divinity and avenged his fallen disciples.
• After the classroom was destroyed at the 500th lesson, An Kai’s perception returned to a rebuilt hall where his teacher was known as the Divine Court God of Magic and Godslayer.
• An Kai learned that divinities were native beings acknowledged by the world, and the Divine Court began experimenting with divine bodies and blood to create such beings.
• The experiments produced Orcs, Green Demons, and Goblins, while An Kai’s teacher became increasingly desperate as his lifespan dwindled.
• At the 891st lesson, the Divine Court God of War exposed the research, and at the 942nd lesson, the birth of the long-lived Elves delighted An Kai’s teacher as darkness spread across the Divine Court.
• During the 999th lesson, with enemies about to breach the classroom, An Kai’s teacher created a Human-like race acknowledged by the Divine Realm and named them Immortals.

An Kai remembered his true identity in the Divine Court Fourth Layer, where his teacher revealed that the [Divine Court] would be destroyed and that he had met the true God of Magic. Meanwhile, Good People Island and its Mage and Magical Beast Associations grew powerful during An Kai’s forty-year absence, as “Chris” set out to return to the [Chaos Sea] with her contemptuous original self following her.

• An Kai’s teacher returned to the classroom, warned that the [Divine Court] would be destroyed in one day, and told An Kai he had met the true God of Magic.
• An Kai regained his memories and recognized himself as the Lord of Goodness Home, visiting the [Divine Court Fourth Layer] for resources.
• Brian William’s Goodness Home Mage Association defended Good People Island, secretly suffered few losses in its war against the [Western Continent Believers], and grew stronger through followers drawn by An Kai’s [Meditation Method].
• Nurnexius built the [Goodness Home Magical Beast Association] and expanded its reach beyond the [Chaos Sea] while waiting for An Kai’s return.
• “Chris” sensed her kind in the [Chaos Sea] and decided to return, while her original self followed, intending to eliminate the “disgrace” of her feelings for An Kai.

An Kai learned from his teacher how the Divine Court had been manipulated by the gods, then rejected his teacher’s request for vengeance while accepting the legacy embedded in the [Divine Court Fourth Layer]. By absorbing the layer, An Kai released the Divine Realm’s suppressed energy, accelerating the gods’ awakening and bringing the second Ten-Thousand-Player Beta Test forward.

• An Kai’s teacher revealed that the God of Magic and other gods had misled the Divine Court’s research into Immortals, and explained how he had helped put the gods to sleep before the Divine Court fell.
• An Kai asked his teacher why he wanted to become a god, then explained that he sought strength simply so he could threaten anyone who stood in his way.
• An Kai thanked his teacher for the [Divine Court Fourth Layer] and its contribution to his [Domain], but refused to promise revenge for the Divine Court.
• An Kai’s teacher dismissed the class, disappeared, and passed his research, spell insights, and a technique for controlling the [Divine Court God of War] into An Kai’s mind.
• An Kai summoned the two [Divine Realm Trials] and began testing his teacher’s Godslaying [Domain] as it merged with his own.
• The [Divine Court Fourth Layer]’s absorption released the energy passage it had suppressed, transforming the Divine Realm and triggering a notice that the second Ten-Thousand-Player Beta Test would begin in three days.

After spending forty years within the Divine Court Fourth Layer, An Kai returned to the Chaos Sea as the new top-ranked Heaven’s Chosen and prepared to face the Abyss’s trials and the players’ arrival. Soon after he left for the Desire Abyss, the Chaos Sea’s restrictions vanished, drawing powerful factions and beings toward its higher-density energy.

• The Heaven’s Chosen Ranking placed the Lord of Desire first and Hade second after An Kai’s Domain fused with the Divine Court Fourth Layer.
• An Kai considered his teacher’s intentions, his immortality talent, and the likely origins of the long-lived species before reappearing in the Chaos Sea after forty years.
• An Kai learned from Brian William that the Goodness Home Mage Association had grown, Nurnexius had begun working to help him, and Chris was returning with a woman who stirred An Kai’s unexplained anger.
• With the second closed beta set to begin in three days, An Kai decided to prioritize the players and entered a portal to the Desire Abyss to face its trials.
• After An Kai left, the Chaos Sea’s restrictions disappeared, and Hade, Araya, the Five Great Powers, and other forces headed there to claim its denser energy.

After returning to the [Desire Abyss] forty years later, An Kai collected Wayne’s accumulated [Abyss Energy Cores], upgraded his physical talents, and passed two Abyss trials, reaching [Nirvana: Reformation, first layer]. With the players’ second arrival approaching, he headed back to Good People Island to deal with the Five Great Powers for threatening it.

• An Kai returned to find that Wayne had expanded Goodness Home’s control across ninety-nine Insect Realms and established a system for ascending from the Lower Realms to the [Desire Abyss].
• Wayne gave An Kai 2.345 billion accumulated [Abyss Energy Cores], and An Kai praised him before spending ten hours inspecting the [Desire Abyss] and binding or enslaving its inhabitants.
• An Kai used two billion [Abyss Energy Cores] to upgrade [Body Strengthening] and [Force Application Mastery], then accepted and completed two trials from the [Abyss].
• An Kai’s Four Attributes surged, bringing him to [Nirvana: Reformation, first layer], while new upgrade requirements revealed that he needed a [Divine Godhead Fragment] and low-grade divine skill points.
• An Kai found no information about [Divine Godhead Fragments] before the players’ second arrival, and he set out for Good People Island to confront the Five Great Powers for threatening it.

The Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Lion King visited Good People Island to demand its surrender, but his son stopped him from provoking An Kai, who had returned. An Kai assessed his overwhelming strength and advanced Domain, and prepared to face the Five Great Powers’ leaders.

• The Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Lion King arrived on Good People Island to persuade Brian William to surrender it, but he was refused an audience with Brian William.
• The Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Lion dragged his father away, warning him through his actions that An Kai had returned and preventing him from endangering himself.
• The Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Lion King withdrew the Southern Continent Magical Beasts from the siege, using his dispute with his son as an excuse while suspecting the Five Great Powers were divided.
• An Kai welcomed the Lion King’s sensible retreat and decided he would make him his new mount.
• An Kai reviewed his attributes, which had reached 425.8143 each, and his two-million-kilometer Domain, concluding that he could easily defeat the Five Great Powers’ leaders.

An Kai used the Divine Court God of War puppet to halt the Four Great Powers’ attack on Good People Island, then confronted their leaders and killed the God of Magic’s Heir. He left the island with the surviving leaders proclaiming him Lord of the Divine Realm as the Second Closed Beta players arrived.

• An Kai learned that the Four Great Powers planned to attack Good People Island and sent the Divine Court God of War puppet ahead while he followed.
• The puppet charged into the Four Great Powers’ forces, and Dong Mu and the other leaders joined forces to fight it.
• The Second Closed Beta began, and players arriving in Goodness Home succumbed to the Desire Abyss’s temptations while Wayne ordered them penned up.
• One hundred players arrived on Good People Island and watched An Kai’s colossal phantom appear, causing the Four Great Powers’ leaders to stop fighting.
• An Kai rejected the God of Magic’s Heir’s challenge, killed him, and asked the remaining leaders if they would become his friends.
• The remaining leaders proclaimed, "An Kai shall be the Lord of the Divine Realm!"

After the second player descent drew attention to An Kai, he reflected on how forty years of growth had made him overwhelmingly powerful and enslaved the leaders of the Four Great Powers. He questioned Dong Mu about his connection to Dong Lin and Dong Sen, but Dong Mu said he did not know.

• The newly descended players recognized An Kai as the suspected God of Magic, and their encounter with him spread through videos and livestreams.
• An Kai reflected on his rise in strength after the Divine Court Fourth Layer merged into his Domain.
• The Blue-Eyed Golden-Eyed Lion King recalled how An Kai enslaved him and defeated the Four Great Powers, then made the other three leaders submit through contracts.
• An Kai asked Dong Mu whether he was related to Dong Lin and Dong Sen or was a remnant of the Divine Court.
• Dong Mu raised his head and said he did not know.

An Kai uncovered signs that the leaders of the Divine Realm’s Five Great Powers had been given implanted memories, then reunited with Chris before returning a hundred players to the Desire Abyss to test its Persuasion. The players arrived to find Li Dabao and his companions acting out the secret experience they had refused to share.

• An Kai used the Contract to discover that Dong Mu, Taboo, and Fallen had hazy pasts filled with unfamiliar memories that seemed mechanically implanted.
• An Kai handed the four faction leaders to Wayne and spent the night catching up with Chris while her disguised companion wandered Goodness Home and was affected by their passionate reunion.
• Players discussed their first day in the Divine Arrival Game, but Li Dabao and the other ninety-nine players from Goodness Home refused to reveal what they had experienced.
• An Kai took a hundred immobile players from Good People Island through the passage to the Desire Abyss to test whether players could resist its Persuasion.
• The players entered the Abyss and saw Li Dabao and his ninety-nine companions swaying with lecherous grins, realizing why they had kept their experience secret.

Li Dabao’s embarrassing indulgence in the [Desire Abyss] was livestreamed, but he soon returned to the game and gave in again despite knowing it was fake. Meanwhile, Wayne’s team recorded the players’ behavior, and An Kai planned to visit the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord.

• The livestream of Li Dabao and 100 other players indulging in the [Desire Abyss] made Li Dabao a viral spectacle among players.
• Li Dabao returned to reality, discovered the recordings, and angrily blamed the person who filmed him and [Goodness Home].
• Li Dabao logged back into the game, rationalized his choice, and succumbed to the [Desire Abyss] again.
• A mage from Wayne’s think tank recorded Li Dabao’s time spent resisting and immersing himself in the [Desire Abyss] as part of Wayne’s research.
• An Kai decided to visit the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord the next day.