Chapter Summaries

After the Beacon Smoke Tribe’s defeat, Hu Lun’er sought Smart the Wise’s counsel about its shaman claiming to be a god’s messenger. Smart soothed Hu Lun’er’s grief and agreed with his claims, while Lin Yu watched and questioned Smart’s shifting loyalties.

• Smart the Wise brought Hu Lun’er medicinal soup and urged him to rest as he mourned the tribesmen killed in battle.
• Hu Lun’er praised Smart’s importance to the tribe, and Smart flattered Hu Lun’er as the chosen leader destined to unite the tribes.
• Hu Lun’er complained that the Beacon Smoke Tribe’s great shaman claimed divine status because he could control beasts.
• Smart agreed that only Hu Lun’er served a real god and dismissed the Beacon Smoke Tribe’s abilities as ordinary skills.
• Lin Yu watched Smart echo Hu Lun’er despite knowing Smart had seen the Goddess of Wisdom and recognized that Smart would say whatever suited the moment.

Smart the Wise advised Hu Lun'er to transform his tribal alliance into an Eagle Kingdom and consolidate control before confronting the Beacon Smoke Tribe. Hu Lun'er listened mainly to the praise and was left with a plan to strengthen his rule and later attack the edges of the rival alliance.

• Hu Lun'er complained that the Beacon Smoke Tribe had copied his alliance strategy and won over tribes in his alliance.
• Hu Lun'er asked Smart the Wise for advice, and Smart proposed establishing an Eagle Kingdom with Hu Lun'er as its ruler.
• Smart the Wise advised Hu Lun'er to appoint tribal chiefs, punish those who defied him, and reward those who submitted.
• Smart the Wise urged Hu Lun'er to secure his rule first, then attack tribes on the outer edges of the Beacon Smoke Tribe's alliance.

Wise Man Smart explained how Hu Lun'er could consolidate his power by eliminating fence-sitting chiefs and appointing trusted replacements. Hu Lun'er agreed to establish the Eagle Kingdom, while Smart suggested placing members of his own tribe in the newly controlled tribes.

• Wise Man Smart assured Hu Lun'er that the Beacon Smoke Tribe would not dare attack and explained how Hu Lun'er could raid its territory if it did.
• Hu Lun'er accepted Smart's plan and said he would establish the Eagle Kingdom.
• Wise Man Smart warned that they would need trusted people to take over the fence-sitting tribes after their chiefs were eliminated.
• Smart proposed sending members of his tribe, claiming they would be accepted and would remain loyal to Hu Lun'er.
• Hu Lun'er decided that Wise Man Smart's reasoning made sense, while Smart worried that Hu Lun'er might see through his intentions.

Wise Man Smart persuaded Hu Lun'er to establish the Eagle Kingdom and appoint him its first imperial preceptor, then used honorary chiefs to spread knowledge through the tribes. The tribes accepted the new chiefs and began to recognize Wise Man Smart despite their continued faith in the God of War.

• Wise Man Smart convinced Hu Lun'er that the chiefs would not rebel and advised him to establish the Eagle Kingdom while presenting the Beacon Smoke Tribe as heretics.
• Hu Lun'er pledged to make Wise Man Smart the kingdom's grand shaman and agreed to carry out the plan himself.
• Hu Lun'er swiftly established the Eagle Kingdom, becoming emperor while Wise Man Smart became its first imperial preceptor.
• Wise Man Smart placed honorary chiefs from his own tribe in the other tribes after Hu Lun'er failed to replace their chiefs with his own people.
• The honorary chiefs taught the tribes how to use the Eagle Tribe's mysterious tools, and the tribesmen came to acknowledge Wise Man Smart.

As Smart the Wise’s influence grew, his knowledge helped create a three-way balance between the Eagle Kingdom, the Beacon Smoke Nation, and his own people. Lin Yu accelerated time on the Star of Vastness and left the system to monitor its future, then went out in the Heka World and discovered that his hotel’s new appearance came from a material simulation device.

• Tribe members embraced the honorary chiefs after their forging knowledge and Smart the Wise’s use of poisonous fruits helped them make tools and fight beasts.
• Smart the Wise became revered across both the Eagle Kingdom and the Beacon Smoke Nation, while the two nations fought for decades without either gaining the upper hand.
• Lin Yu watched Hu Lun’er, the Beacon Smoke Tribe’s great shaman, and Smart the Wise shape a three-way balance of power on the Star of Vastness.
• Lin Yu accelerated time and told the Hongmeng System to notify him if the star reached a critical turning point.
• Lin Yu left his hotel and used his spiritual power to investigate the building’s new silver-gray appearance and patterns.
• The Hongmeng System identified the hovering devices and spacecraft as a material simulation device that projected preset shapes and materials.

Lin Yu spent another day enjoying Heka World's entertainment before Treichel contacted him with an urgent matter. After he reproached her for using special means to locate his hotel, Treichel apologized and said she had acted for his safety.

• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System to plan a lively sightseeing route and spent the day enjoying Heka World's entertainment.
• Lin Yu won a drinking contest at a bar, where his spiritual power let him drink without getting drunk.
• After returning to the hotel, Lin Yu learned that Treichel had left him dozens of messages and then answered her call.
• Lin Yu confronted Treichel for finding his hotel and room without his permission.
• Treichel apologized, explaining that she had used extraordinary means because the matter was urgent and Lin Yu's safety was at stake.

Lin Yu learned that Heka World would be locked down because of an impending wartime emergency, though the available information revealed no details. He agreed to stay indoors and told the Hongmeng System to monitor updates as he waited to learn what was coming.

• Treichel warned Lin Yu that his personal safety could be at risk because all of Heka World would be locked down starting the next day.
• Treichel said troops stationed in Heka World had been mobilized, but she did not know what the encrypted information meant.
• Lin Yu agreed to avoid going out unless necessary and told Treichel to keep him informed.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System to investigate and learned that Heka World had received an incomplete danger signal from a world one level above it.
• Lin Yu ordered the Hongmeng System to monitor information from Heka World's upper ranks and notify him of any updates.

Lin Yu prepared to strengthen his physique with a serum and consulted the Hongmeng System about the Fantasy Weapon’s energy reserves. He chose to begin the second stage of energy replenishment and left the story with his priorities set for allocating its power.

• Lin Yu decided to use the Fantasy Weapon to inject himself with a serum and asked the Hongmeng System to calculate its energy reserves.
• The Hongmeng System said the Fantasy Weapon could support the second replenishment stage, but the third would depend on the Star of Vastness’s chosen of the gods.
• Lin Yu corrected the system that he had only two chosen of the gods, excluding Smart the Wise.
• The Hongmeng System explained that Lin Yu had to choose which attributes to strengthen during the second replenishment stage.
• Lin Yu prioritized speed, healing ability, defense, mental power, and physical strength, in that order.

Lin Yu chose to prioritize speed, healing, and defense over attack as he replenished his energy, despite the Hongmeng System questioning his plan. Meanwhile, the Eagle Kingdom grew powerful under Smart the Wise, and Hu Lun'er prepared to fight the Beacon Smoke Nation.

• Lin Yu insisted that cautious energy allocation was necessary, and the Hongmeng System began replenishing his energy according to his plan.
• The Hongmeng System's metal cover enveloped Lin Yu and injected nutrient solution through silver needles.
• Several years passed, and Lin Yu's intervention accelerated civilization on the Star of Vastness as tribes gave way to city-states.
• Smart the Wise introduced inventions, including explosives and cannons, strengthening the Eagle Kingdom against the Beacon Smoke Nation.
• Hu Lun'er declared that the Eagle Kingdom should teach the Beacon Smoke Nation a lesson, bringing the two nations closer to war.

After completing his second energy replenishment, Lin Yu discovered that his body and mental power had grown stronger. He learned that the Star of Vastness was nearing stability while the Hunter World had invaded the Heka World, leaving the invaders’ intentions unknown.

• Lin Yu woke in a hotel and found that his enhanced strength let him use the Fantasy Weapon easily and made his surroundings seem clearer.
• Lin Yu tested his power by leaping from the sixteenth floor to the top of the hotel, and the Hongmeng System confirmed that he could now survive in xuanhuan worlds without the Fantasy Weapon.
• The Hongmeng System told Lin Yu that the Power of Faith on the Star of Vastness was almost stable and that the Eagle Kingdom and the Beacon Smoke Nation had begun a full-scale battle.
• Lin Yu asked about the Heka World and learned that a spaceship from the Hunter World had launched two pods that caused widespread deaths and injuries.
• The Hongmeng System told Lin Yu that the Heka World had tried to contact the Hunter World, but the invaders had not responded.

Lin Yu learned that the Hunter World’s powerful people hunted and killed beings in lower-level worlds as part of a coming-of-age assessment. The chapter ended with him understanding that the Heka World had accepted the deadly arrangement partly for the promised rewards.

• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System about the Hunter World and learned its people could absorb genes and powers by devouring others.
• The Hongmeng System explained that the Hunter World divided its young people into factions to hunt beings in a matched xuanhuan world, with winners returning for a coming-of-age ceremony.
• Lin Yu questioned why the Heka World would let Hunter World people hunt there, given its deference to higher-level worlds.
• The Hongmeng System said the Hunter World promised rewards to any battlefield world that killed its losing candidates within a year.
• Lin Yu realized that the Heka World’s leaders had little power to refuse and may have welcomed the chance to gain advanced technology.

Lin Yu learned that the Hunter World's people used Devouring Genes to absorb powers from other worlds, but their hunts were constrained by strict rules. The Hongmeng System revealed that the Hunter World belonged to a powerful Hunting Alliance that selected battlefields and limited casualties, though compensation usually went to the hunted world rather than the victims' families.

• Lin Yu asked why the Hunter World's cruel hunting methods resembled a movie from his previous life, and the Hongmeng System explained that its people possessed Devouring Genes that could absorb genes from other worlds.
• Lin Yu questioned whether consuming foreign genes would weaken the Hunter World's own genes, prompting the Hongmeng System to deduce that its hunting practices were governed by systems of rank and competition.
• Lin Yu asked how the Hunter World could choose other worlds as battlefields without violating the Chief God Code, and the Hongmeng System explained that similar worlds had formed the Hunting Alliance.
• The Hongmeng System said Hunting Alliance members had to follow ranked rules, either raise their own hunting worlds or select battlefields according to alliance regulations, limit casualties, and provide compensation that usually went to the hunted world.

Lin Yu judged that the Hunter World’s beginner-level hunt in the Heka World would not affect him and focused on the growing faith from the Star of Vastness. Meanwhile, Smart the Wise’s explosives shifted the war in the Eagle Kingdom’s favor, and Hu Lun’er captured a vicious beast instead of killing it.

• The Hongmeng System told Lin Yu that the hunt in the Heka World was unlikely to affect him after his second energy replenishment.
• Lin Yu sensed stronger Power of Faith flowing from the Star of Vastness and stayed quietly in the hotel.
• Smart the Wise’s explosives and gunpowder gave the Eagle Kingdom an advantage over the Beacon Smoke Nation and its vicious beasts.
• Smart the Wise waited through a stalemate, relying on vicious beasts familiar with human society to communicate with one another.
• Hu Lun’er overpowered and captured a vicious beast, then took it back to the Eagle Kingdom alive.

Hu Lun’er prepared to lead the Eagle Kingdom’s forces against a Beacon Smoke Nation stronghold after Smart’s defection of some ferocious beasts had shaken the enemy’s morale. Lin Yu discovered that Smart’s so-called spirit-nourishing decoction was secretly harming Hu Lun’er, though the chapter ended before revealing its worst side effect.

• The Eagle Kingdom used the defection of some ferocious beasts to weaken the Beacon Smoke Nation’s morale and gain ground in the war.
• Hu Lun’er prepared to lead an assault on a major Beacon Smoke Nation stronghold, and National Preceptor Smart offered him a bowl of spirit-nourishing decoction.
• Hu Lun’er drank and smashed the bowl, praising Smart and crediting him with much of the Eagle Kingdom’s success.
• Smart promised the allied ferocious beasts a bowl of decoction each if they returned in triumph.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System to analyze the decoction and learned it drained Hu Lun’er’s spiritual power, caused addiction, and harmed his reproductive ability.

Lin Yu watched Imperial Preceptor Smart’s poisoned medicine scheme help Hu Lun’er remain strong while Smart maneuvered toward victory on the Star of Vastness. A year later, Hu Lun’er conquered the Beacon Smoke Nation’s main city and set out to eliminate its Grand Shaman.

• Lin Yu learned that Smart had secretly increased the poison in Hu Lun’er’s daily medicine, relying on Lin Yu’s earlier enhancements to keep Hu Lun’er healthy.
• Lin Yu withdrew his mental power from the Star of Vastness and concluded that Smart was likely to win, bringing the world closer to unification.
• A year later, Hu Lun’er led Smart, the Eagle Kingdom’s army, and allied fierce beasts in an assault that defeated the Beacon Smoke Nation.
• Hu Lun’er killed the Beacon Smoke Nation’s king and dismissed him as a puppet, then continued onward to root out the Grand Shaman.
• Hu Lun’er encountered several fierce beasts that had stayed with the Beacon Smoke Nation, and frowned when he finally saw the Grand Shaman.

Lin Yu descended as the True God to end the war and save the Beacon Smoke Nation's survivors, while punishing the great shaman for his failure. The war subsided, faith in the True God spread, and the Eagle Kingdom grew stronger as it built up the church.

• The great shaman prayed for the True God to save the Beacon Smoke Nation, but Hu Lun'er dismissed his pleas.
• Lin Yu descended in a concealed form that Hu Lun'er, Imperial Preceptor Smart, and the great shaman each recognized as the True God.
• Lin Yu promised to spare the Beacon Smoke Nation's people, then killed the great shaman with divine flames for failing him.
• Hu Lun'er let the Beacon Smoke Nation's refugees leave, and the war gradually subsided as the True God's appearance strengthened people's faith.
• The Eagle Kingdom began building up the church, and several years later the nation had grown stronger.

As Hu Lun'er weakened, Imperial Preceptor Smart took control of the Eagle Kingdom while rumors blamed the emperor’s condition on divine punishment. Hu Lun'er realized Smart had been poisoning him and learned that Smart was also a messenger of the gods before Smart killed him.

• Hu Lun'er grew frail and childless, prompting rumors that the gods had punished him for defeating the Beacon Smoke Nation.
• Imperial Preceptor Smart assumed authority and continued leading the Eagle Kingdom, earning the people’s trust.
• Smart visited the bedridden Hu Lun'er alone, and Hu Lun'er accused him of poisoning the emperor.
• Smart revealed that he, too, was a messenger of the gods and had received his knowledge from the God of Wisdom.
• Hu Lun'er realized Smart had been one of the divine messengers, and Smart killed him.

Imperial Preceptor Smart killed Hu Lun'er and took control of the Eagle Kingdom, while Lord True God condemned Hu Lun'er as having brought his downfall upon himself. Smart burned the emperor's residence, and the people mistook the fire for divine punishment.

• Imperial Preceptor Smart told Hu Lun'er that he had built the Eagle Kingdom and stabbed him through the heart.
• Lord True God declared that Hu Lun'er had failed his expectations through his own stupidity, then left without appearing.
• Imperial Preceptor Smart found Hu Lun'er's hidden accusation naming Smart as the one who stole the kingdom.
• Imperial Preceptor Smart left Hu Lun'er's residence as it burned, and the people of the Eagle Kingdom believed the flames were sent by Lord True God.

After Hu Lun'er died, Smart seized the throne and consolidated his rule as the Church of Wisdom eclipsed the Eagle Kingdom's other churches. Thirty years later, Smart remained emperor, and Feidina visited him as she understood the secret behind his medicinal soup but had not exposed it.

• After Hu Lun'er died by divine punishment, State Preceptor Smart killed his guards and close associates, then became emperor.
• Smart's rule brought the Eagle Kingdom further development, and rumors spread that a deity had taught him wisdom.
• Subjects established the Church of Wisdom, whose useful inventions won popularity until it displaced the churches of the God of Strength and the God of Beacon Smoke.
• Thirty years later, Emperor Smart read memorials while drinking medicinal soup to refresh his mind.
• Feidina visited Smart, who apologized for neglecting her, while she silently regarded the soup and kept its secret to herself.

Feidina pleaded with Emperor Smart to stop drinking the poisonous restorative tonic, but he insisted that his duty as the True God's envoy mattered more than his life. Back in Heka World, Lin Yu checked the casualty count, then went to sleep after asking the Hongmeng System to warn him of danger and wake him if Smart was near death.

• Feidina confronted Emperor Smart over his continued use of the toxic restorative tonic and begged him to choose a natural death instead.
• Emperor Smart told Feidina that he loved her but would not abandon his pursuit of truth, and she left his bedchamber in despair.
• Lin Yu withdrew his spiritual power from the Star of Vastness and reflected on how Smart had become consumed by his search for truth.
• Lin Yu asked the Hongmeng System for Heka World's casualties, and it reported 1,832 with the lockdown expected to end in two days.
• Lin Yu went to bed and told the Hongmeng System to warn him of danger and wake him if Smart was about to die.