Chapter Summaries

Wealth Spirit agreed to join the state, and Star God and Su Wen tested how the God of Wealth's feelings affected his summoning abilities. Wealth Spirit then asked to summon creatures beside Su Wen, awaiting his answer.

• Wealth Spirit reversed his decision and signed an agreement to serve the state, and Star God promised to assign him to a team.
• Wealth Spirit explained that Su Wen's presence lowered summoning costs and improved the chances of summoning powerful creatures.
• Star God had Su Wen deliberately feel disgust toward Wealth Spirit, and Wealth Spirit's summoning conditions worsened while he felt physically and emotionally distressed.
• Wealth Spirit asked whether he could summon creatures near Su Wen, and Star God told him to ask the God of Wealth directly.
• Wealth Spirit looked to Su Wen hopefully for an answer.

Su Wen showed Wealth Spirit his support, then brought new body tempering methods to the Star God and Theater God. The Star God entered a powerful epiphany, and Su Wen offered the Theater God another method.

• Su Wen told Wealth Spirit he could contact him if he needed anything, and Wealth Spirit eagerly embraced his connection to the God of Wealth.
• The Star God told Su Wen that the trading team had valued his body tempering methods and invited various countries to a demonstration, with the trading platform set to launch soon.
• Su Wen offered to show the Star God his newly obtained body tempering methods, and the Star God hurried him to the office area to show the Theater God as well.
• Su Wen demonstrated a method with qi and blood, prompting the Star God to record it with purple clocks and enter an intense epiphany.
• Su Wen asked the Theater God whether he wanted to see another new body tempering method.

Su Wen demonstrated the Theater God Body Tempering Method, prompting the Theater God to gain new insights and the Star God to finish his sudden enlightenment. The Star God then warned that he had foreseen the Battle God weeping in the rain amid bloodshed.

• Su Wen demonstrated the Theater God Body Tempering Method and explained how it let practitioners imitate others’ fighting styles and combat talents.
• The Theater God watched the method and gained several sparks of inspiration, while the Battle God quietly waited for the others to finish.
• The Star God and the Theater God ended their meditation, and the Star God thanked Su Wen for what he had gained.
• The Star God told the Battle God that the stars had shown him scenes of bloodshed and a grave warning.
• The Star God revealed that he had seen the Battle God standing in the rain in tears.

The Star God revealed a vision of the Battle God crying at a state funeral in year twenty-four, warning that one of their group might die and that danger was approaching. Su Wen suspected the funeral could be his or the Star God’s, and the Star God urged him to be careful as Su Wen began to share another thought.

• The Star God described a vision of the Battle God standing in the rain and crying at a crowded state funeral in year twenty-four.
• The Battle God asked how the Star God knew he was crying, and the Star God explained that he had rejected an umbrella despite being able to stop the rain.
• The Star God warned that one of their group might fall and told the Battle God to watch for unusual movements from the Arrow Realm.
• Su Wen considered that the funeral might be his own or the Star God’s, since both had died in twenty-four in the previous timeline.
• The Star God warned Su Wen that his future was filled with killing intent and that year twenty-four might bring his first great calamity.
• Su Wen looked at the Star God and said he had another thought.

The Star God asked the Theater God to divine whether he would face danger around 2024, but the Theater God could not predict his future. The Theater God warned Su Wen that the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm and the Layi Clan were sources of danger, and the Star God and Battle God considered confronting them.

• Su Wen suggested that the Star God's blood-red vision might foreshadow his death, and the Star God asked the Theater God to divine his future.
• The Theater God failed to predict the Star God's fate, warning that forcing a prediction could cause unexpected changes.
• The Theater God told Su Wen that his dangers involved the Evil Spirit Insect Swarm and the Layi Clan, and Su Wen identified both threats.
• The Star God said he would visit the threats' worlds, while the Battle God volunteered to go with him.
• The Star God and Theater God told the Battle God he was too weak to confront the Layi Clan, so the Battle God set King Rank as his year-end goal.

Su Wen revealed that he had comprehended more than twenty body tempering methods, including methods tailored to the Star God, Theater God, and Battle God. The Theater God then asked whether Su Wen had also comprehended a method related to Little Wind.

• Su Wen showed the Battle God his body tempering method, and the Battle God entered an epiphany.
• The Theater God sent the Battle God into his Theatrical Phenomena World so the others could continue talking without disturbing him.
• The Star God and Theater God discussed their belief that Su Wen’s methods might come from their future cultivation and chose not to ask about his talent directly.
• Su Wen said he had comprehended a little over twenty body tempering methods and described the Star God, Theater God, Battle God, Mechanical, and Life methods.
• Su Wen explained that different peoples and regions had developed localized body tempering methods after the Basic Body Tempering Method proved unsuitable for many foreign cultivators.
• The Theater God asked Su Wen whether he had comprehended a body tempering method related to Little Wind.

Su Wen agreed to let the Star God arrange a quick sale of his body-tempering methods to Meilina’s God of Freedom, while the Theater God and Star God discussed giving the young Wind God more Martial Dao homework. The God of Freedom arrived in Huaxia, and the Star God prepared to negotiate on Su Wen’s behalf.

• The Star God and Theater God decided that the Wind God needed more Martial Dao theory, and the Theater God planned to add it to his homework.
• The Star God offered to connect Su Wen with Meilina’s God of Freedom to trade his body-tempering methods quickly for payment and valuable favors, and Su Wen agreed.
• The Theater God said he could also contact Britain’s God of Magic, and the Star God began summoning the God of Freedom.
• The Star God told Su Wen to signal his opinion of the price with his eyebrows and said he would lead the negotiation.
• The God of Freedom stepped out of the star array and asked the Star God whether he had been whispering secrets to someone.

The Star God showed the God of Freedom the Basic Body Tempering Method and negotiated a deal for it. When she tried to revise the agreement after learning Su Wen had created it, the Star God demanded that she owe him a favor, and he revealed Su Wen's profession.

• The God of Freedom, Ruisina, arrived and asked Su Wen whether he was the person the Star God had mentioned.
• The Star God displayed the Basic Body Tempering Method, and the God of Freedom recognized its value for strengthening Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• The God of Freedom proposed exchanging fifty billion US dollars, battery application technology, and precision machine-tool techniques for the method.
• The Star God accepted her offer and required her to owe Su Wen a favor in return.
• The God of Freedom tried to add Meilina's cutting-edge chip technology to the trade, but the Star God refused and identified Su Wen as the God of Wealth.

The Star God and the God of Freedom completed a trade involving a cultivation technique, US dollars, and technical support, while Su Wen learned gossip about their past from the Theater God. The Star God then invited the God of Freedom to investigate a coming treasure in the Layi Clan's Arrow Realm, and she raised concerns about changes in the Arrow Realms chosen for training.

• The Star God gave the God of Freedom a cultivation technique in exchange for fifty billion US dollars, technical support, and a favor.
• Su Wen asked the Theater God about the Star God and the God of Freedom, and learned that she had once pursued and tried to force herself on the Star God.
• The God of Freedom realized the trade was chiefly intended to secure US dollars for the God of Wealth and build goodwill with him.
• The Star God told the God of Freedom that a supreme treasure would soon appear among the Layi Clan in No. 36 Arrow Realm, and she agreed to go with him.
• The God of Freedom asked whether the training Arrow Realms chosen by Huaxia's newly awakened Heavenly Mandate Bearers had recently increased in number.

The Star God explained that rising Training Arrow Realm numbers indicated more hostile worlds that humanity might eventually face, then learned that Su Wen’s number was 73,248. The Star God and the Theater God were left stunned as laughter from a nearby sealed space revealed someone had gained insight into the Battle Divine Ability.

• The God of Freedom told the Star God and the Theater God that a Heavenly Mandate Bearer had reached Training Arrow Realm No. 1,476 in Meilina, and asked the Star God to help if a crisis came.
• The Star God agreed to go with Ruisina to the Layi Clan the next day, then sent the God of Freedom away with a star formation.
• The Star God explained to Su Wen that higher Training Arrow Realm numbers meant more potential hostile worlds, and the Theater God warned that a great war could break out if the balance shifted.
• The Theater God noticed Su Wen’s reaction, and Su Wen revealed that his Training Arrow Realm number was 73,248, leaving the Star God and the Theater God speechless.
• Someone in a nearby sealed space laughed and said they had finally gained some understanding of the Method of Combat and the Art of Battle within the Battle Divine Ability.

The Battle God experienced an epiphany and celebrated his new understanding, but learned that Su Wen’s Training Arrow Realm was numbered 73,248, far beyond what the group had expected. The God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers steadied themselves by trusting in their ability to grow stronger, while the Wind God wondered why they were laughing.

• The Battle God thanked Su Wen and celebrated experiencing an epiphany, saying he would even give up alcohol to please the God of Wealth.
• The Star God asked the Battle God about Su Wen’s Training Arrow Realm serial number, and the Theater God revealed it was 73,248.
• Su Wen confirmed the number, prompting the Battle God to worry that war with more than seventy thousand worlds was inevitable.
• The Theater God and Star God encouraged the group, arguing that repeated epiphanies and the experience energy from many Rule Arrow Realms could help them reach the pinnacle.
• The Battle God regained his confidence, and the four God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers laughed together as the Wind God asked what had happened.

The Star God warned Su Wen that Heavenly Mandate Bearers could be forcibly conscripted into Rule Arrow Realms, though God-Prefixed Bearers could refuse. Su Wen also learned he could use the fifty billion US dollars he had earned and decided to absorb ten billion first to test the effects.

• The Star God confirmed the Layi Clan possessed a supreme treasure and agreed to join the God of Freedom on an expedition to their territory the next day.
• The Battle God asked whether the God of Freedom had gotten handsy with the Star God, so the Star God teleported him into the deep sea to patrol the Arrow Realms.
• The Theater God told Su Wen that he dealt with the Battle God’s insults by trapping him in his Theatrical Phenomena World for special training, but Su Wen declined to try it.
• The Star God explained that Heavenly Mandate Bearers could be forcibly conscripted into Rule Arrow Realms after prolonged inactivity, while God-Prefixed Bearers had the right to refuse.
• The Star God and Theater God told Su Wen he could spend the fifty billion US dollars he had earned, but advised him to absorb only ten billion at first.
• Su Wen agreed and began absorbing ten billion US dollars into Wealth Source Points.

After gaining more than six thousand Wealth Source Points, Su Wen learned from the Theater God about Heavenly Mandate Bearers and the Arrow Realm. The Theater God explained that Su Wen’s fate was too changeable to predict, while the Battle God remained the only one without a way to gather information.

• Su Wen saw that he had gained 6,056.5 Wealth Source Points, then received a notification that the River of Space-Time’s attention doubled his space-time-related Wealth Source consumption for ten hours.
• The Star God left to prepare Star Weapons for the next day’s battle and asked the Theater God to tell Su Wen about the Arrow Realm.
• The Theater God explained that anyone could become a Heavenly Mandate Bearer, though each bearer’s fate could be viewed as inevitable, like the prophecy in the tragedy of King Oedipus.
• Su Wen worried that the Theater God’s example might hint at his own future, but the Theater God assured him that Su Wen’s fate was too special and changeable to predict.
• Su Wen and the Theater God discussed how the Star God and Theater God could divine the Battle God’s future while neither could divine each other’s, leaving the Battle God confused by their hints.
• The Theater God said he might trade places with the Battle God, then admitted he likely would not have survived if he had fought in every battle.

The Theater God taught Su Wen about the Arrow Realms, Heavenly Mandate Quests, divine artifacts, and the ranks of Heavenly Mandate Bearers. Su Wen predicted that the portals would shatter and war would begin around the start of 2024, then returned to his office and examined his Sycee artifact.

• The Theater God explained the Arrow Realms, their relations with Huaxia, how Heavenly Mandate Quests awarded divine artifacts, and the ranks of Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• Su Wen told the Theater God that the Rule Arrow Realm portals would shatter in 2024 and that war would begin around the start of the year.
• The Theater God reacted with disbelief and recognized the value of Su Wen's foreknowledge, while Su Wen said he could see the future because he had paid for it.
• The Theater God urged Su Wen to consider the Arrow Realm information while he made deductions about the coming war.
• Su Wen went to his office and inspected his God of Wealth divine artifact, Sycee, which could awaken new uses if he invested Wealth Source into it.

Su Wen invested two thousand Wealth Source in the Sycee until it transformed and revealed a spirit named Sycee. Sycee demonstrated that it could communicate with the River of Space-Time, leaving Su Wen shocked by its new ability.

• Su Wen repeatedly fed Wealth Source to the Sycee, spending two thousand before it entered transformation.
• The Sycee completed its ten-minute transformation and manifested as a miniature figure that introduced itself as Sycee.
• Su Wen questioned Sycee about its intelligence and whether it had skimmed his Wealth Source, and Sycee explained that it could sense his thoughts before taking form.
• Sycee revealed that it could communicate with the River of Space-Time, and Su Wen jumped to his feet in shock.

Su Wen learned that the newly awakened Sycee could communicate with the River of Space-Time and ask it for help at a cost in Wealth Source Points. Sycee removed the River’s gaze from Su Wen, and Su Wen learned why it had been watching him before examining Sycee’s divinity and asking how it had grown.

• Su Wen asked Sycee about its ability to communicate with the River of Space-Time and learned that requesting its help could cost tens of thousands of Wealth Source Points.
• Su Wen asked Sycee to remove the River of Space-Time’s gaze, and Sycee contacted the River, which made the gaze vanish without charging him.
• Sycee explained that the River had watched Su Wen because its power had expelled him into this world, disturbing its space-time, and that it had tried to contact him.
• Su Wen learned that the River of Space-Time enforced equivalent exchange and punished disruptions caused by his travels between timelines.
• Su Wen checked Sycee’s status and asked about its two points of divinity; Sycee explained that it had begun with one and gained another through enlightenment after he fed it two thousand Wealth Source Points.

Su Wen used Sycee to travel twenty years into the future and arrived in the developed Suzhou and Hangzhou region. He saw a public mourning ceremony begin, leaving him unsure whom the crowd was honoring.

• Su Wen learned that Sycee could accompany him through time and help choose his destination.
• Sycee said Su Wen could not travel only ten years forward because his future self was still alive, so Su Wen chose to go twenty years ahead.
• Sycee guided Su Wen to a peaceful place in the Suzhou and Hangzhou region, where he found advanced technology and flying vehicles.
• Su Wen removed his God of Wealth mask and tried to blend in, but discovered that people no longer used smartphones.
• Su Wen reached Suzhou and Hangzhou People's Cultural Square, where a solemn lament began and the gathered crowd bowed their heads in mourning.

Su Wen watched a projection reveal that Wind God would defect in July 2034, leading to the deaths of Martial God and Theater God and devastating Huaxia’s battlefronts. Troubled by the future, he decided to seek out Star God and discuss whether the catastrophe could be prevented.

• A projection showed that Wind God would join the Arrow Realm other races in an uprising that breached the Imperial Capital’s defenses.
• Martial God died after destroying 195 Arrow Realms on the Demon Capital Battlefield, while Theater God later perished after killing the invaders and destroying 64 Arrow Realms.
• Su Wen questioned why Wind God would betray Theater God and Huaxia, and worried about how the country could survive losing three God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers in one day.
• Sycee told Su Wen that changing the past might prevent Wind God’s defection and the deaths.
• Su Wen decided to look for Star God and discuss the future events with him.

Su Wen learned how the Shadow God had protected Suzhou and Hangzhou from two attempts to open a fifth battlefield, then decided to attend Du Guowei’s lecture at Suzhou and Hangzhou Martial Arts University. His aircraft detected his God-Prefixed identity, kept it secret, and delivered him to the university.

• Su Wen read that the Shadow God had wounded a Praka Clan emperor in 2039 and slain two Emperor Rank infiltrators in 2041, preventing the fifth battlefield from opening.
• Su Wen and Sycee discussed Huaxia’s strength and the hope offered by future God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• Su Wen saw an announcement that Du Guowei was visiting Suzhou and Hangzhou Martial Arts University and chose to attend his lecture.
• Su Wen boarded a driverless aircraft, whose intelligent brain recognized him as a God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearer and offered to announce his arrival.
• Su Wen ordered the aircraft to keep a low profile, and it took him to the university gates five minutes later.

God of Wealth arrived at Suzhou and Hangzhou Martial Arts University and listened to Du Guowei lecture on the development of Huaxia and Western Martial Dao. Du Guowei spotted God of Wealth in the crowd, recognized his familiar profile, and abruptly stood up, leaving the lecture in disarray.

• The university opened its east gate to visitors for Du Guowei’s lecture and held it on the athletic field.
• God of Wealth got lost on campus, asked for directions, and hurried toward the athletic field before slowing to listen to Du Guowei speak.
• Du Guowei discussed Martial Dao’s development, praised the late Martial God’s foresight, and invited students to share their ideas.
• God of Wealth reflected on the students’ hope and the survival of Huaxia before Du Guowei noticed him from the main platform.
• Du Guowei stopped speaking, rose from his seat, and reacted to God of Wealth’s familiar profile and old-fashioned clothes.