Chapter Summaries

Theater God and Su Wen suspected that Ao Xiu possessed the God of Wealth’s fortune and that Su Wen had taken the danger meant for him. They decided Ao Xiu could not be released, and Theater God offered to risk the fortune’s backlash before Ao Xiu spat out a golden dragon pearl.

• Theater God warned Su Wen that Ao Xiu’s extraordinary luck might make killing him dangerous, and Su Wen considered whether his wealth fortune had transferred to the dragon.
• Su Wen recalled his repeated deaths in future sub-spacetimes and suspected the River of Space-Time’s blessing had protected him after he paid it.
• Su Wen wondered if he had taken the Arrow Realm’s attacks meant for Ao Xiu, then briefly considered killing the dragon to reclaim the God of Wealth’s fortune.
• Ao Xiu begged for his life and offered to serve Su Wen, confused about why he had been captured and threatened.
• Theater God insisted they could not release Ao Xiu and volunteered to face any backlash, prompting Ao Xiu to spit out a glowing golden dragon pearl.

Su Wen absorbed Ao Xiu’s natal dragon pearl and awakened the Wealth Flows In talent, while the Star God and Theater God concealed the disturbance. The Star God advised keeping Ao Xiu alive and urged the gods to prepare for the possibility that their successors might come from the Arrow Realm.

• The Theater God brought Ao Xiu’s dragon pearl to Su Wen and told him to examine it outside the Theatrical Phenomena World.
• Su Wen detected the God of Wealth’s divine object in the pearl and began a Deep Heavenly Mandate Awakening.
• The Star God and Theater God concealed Su Wen’s awakening, while the Wind God, Shadow God, and Battle God watched the commotion.
• Su Wen awakened Wealth Flows In, a talent that generated income at regular intervals as his circumstances changed.
• The Battle God urged Su Wen to kill Ao Xiu, but the Star God advised keeping him alive because he might bring further gains.
• The Star God warned the gods to prepare for their divine positions passing to successors from the Arrow Realm, then said the Battle God was too hard to kill to need such preparation.

In Theater God’s Theatrical Phenomena World, Star God proposed that the gods might achieve Deep Awakening through beings tied to their clans, giving Theater God hope of breaking through. Su Wen then shared that finding Theater God’s successor required Theater God’s death, and the chapter ended with Su Wen preparing to reveal visions of the future.

• Theater God brought the group into his Theatrical Phenomena World, where Ao Xiu recovered some strength but panicked at the sight of six masked people.
• Star God suggested that the gods might reach Deep Awakening through particular beings from particular clans, and Theater God saw this as a possible path to a breakthrough.
• Theater God asked Su Wen to find his successor, but Su Wen explained that the divine position would transfer only after Theater God died.
• Star God urged the group to search the Arrow Realms for unusual beings connected to their divine authorities, while Theater God told Battle God to investigate clans he knew.
• Battle God decided to adventure with Tiansha of the Asura Clan, and Su Wen announced that he had visions of the future to share.

Su Wen showed the gods a projection of the Imperial Capital thirty years in the future, prompting them to consider the destruction and the possibility that many of them would die. As the Star God and Theater God investigated the future, Su Wen chose to keep Ao Xiu alive for a more secure succession plan and as a possible decoy.

• Su Wen used Sycee to project the ruined Imperial Capital thirty years into the future for the gods.
• The gods discussed what the devastation might mean, and the Star God and Theater God began divining and deducing the projected scene.
• Su Wen told Ao Xiu he would keep him alive, and Ao Xiu eagerly agreed.
• Su Wen considered how Ao Xiu could secure the God of Wealth's succession and take danger away from him in a future timeline.
• In the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface, the cautious God of Wealth disguised himself in borrowed clothes and eavesdropped on a lecture about the friendly feelings between divine seat Heavenly Mandate Bearers.

Su Wen watched a video describing how the Demon Prison Clan captured and tortured the Martial God, prompting Battle God and Star God to attack the Demon Prison Realm. He vowed to destroy the Demon Prison Clan and its allies, while realizing Star God had likely died there, and Star God noticed his distress.

• The video recounted how the Demon Prison Clan captured the weakened Martial God and tortured his soul with thirty-six kinds of punishment.
• Battle God and Star God fought their way into the Demon Prison Realm; Battle God returned with the gravely wounded Martial God, while Star God disappeared and the Demon Prison Clan's realms were destroyed.
• Su Wen learned that the Martial God later died and that Huaxia had also lost Wind God and Theater God.
• Su Wen resolved to kill the Demon Prison Clan, the Demon Prison Alliance, and the races under their command.
• Su Wen concluded that Star God had probably died in the Demon Prison Realm, and Star God asked him what was wrong.

Su Wen told the Star God and the others how the Demon Prison Clan had captured and tortured him in the future, prompting them to vow revenge and discuss their deaths. The Battle God learned that he was expected to outlive the others and carry Huaxia’s future alone, leaving him to say he did not want to live alone.

• Su Wen recounted the future turning point in 2051, the Demon Prison Clan’s capture and torture of him, and the Star God and Battle God’s attack on the Demon Prison Realm.
• The Star God and Theater God agreed that the Demon Prison Clan had to die, and the Theater God learned that he had fallen in 2049.
• The Theater God and Star God explained that the Battle God’s exceptional combat strength let him kill foes above his rank, including an Earth Deity at Emperor Rank.
• Su Wen told the Wind God that she had died in 2046, then revealed that the Theater God had died in 2049 while the Shadow God was still alive.
• The Battle God realized that he might be the only one left and said he did not want to live alone.

The Battle God decided to head to the Arrow Realms and grow stronger, while the others discussed their bleak future and resolved to fight for a better one. As they debated what to do with Ao Xiu, Su Wen received a message saying the dragon could bring him fortune.

• The Battle God took the Theater God's advice, left the Theatrical Phenomena World, and set out to explore the Arrow Realms.
• The Star God, Shadow God, Wind God, and Su Wen discussed the future, with the Star God saying most of them appeared destined to die within thirty years.
• The Shadow God urged everyone to use knowledge of the future to change the present, and Su Wen said both their struggle and its outcome would improve.
• The Theater God asked whether Ao Xiu would stay with him, while the Wind God suggested making Ao Xiu the organization's flying transport and the Star God offered to have him guard a Star Weapon workshop.
• Su Wen received a message from Sycee saying Ao Xiu had fortune supporting him and would make an excellent fortune-bringing dragon.

Su Wen left Ao Xiu in the Theater God's care and learned that the Battle God's fate pattern was shifting toward the playwright Artaud, while mistaking the Theater God's comments about poverty for advice about his finances. Back in his office, Su Wen asked Sycee how to turn Ao Xiu into a fortune-bringing dragon and learned that Sycee wanted to make him the Treasure Bowl's spirit.

• Su Wen entrusted Ao Xiu to the Theater God while he made arrangements, and the Theater God advised him to cultivate his divine abilities.
• The Theater God noticed that the Battle God's fate pattern was drawing closer to Artaud and planned to warn him indirectly through theater.
• Su Wen interpreted the Theater God's mention of the Theater of Poverty as a hint to earn more Wealth Source and left the Theatrical Phenomena World.
• The Theater God invited Ao Xiu to help with an experiment as the Wind God and Shadow God departed.
• Su Wen summoned Sycee and asked how to make Ao Xiu a fortune-bringing dragon.
• Sycee proposed extracting Ao Xiu's soul and placing it in the Treasure Bowl, and Su Wen called Sycee black-hearted after hearing the plan.

Su Wen sent Sycee to gather future information, where the God of Wealth heard a speaker argue that Martial Dao Secret Medicine damaged the body and restricted the Martial Dao’s potential. The speech praised Du Baihua’s opposition to the system, but the God of Wealth recognized the contradiction: Du Baihua had actually invented Martial Dao Secret Medicine.

• Su Wen told Sycee to retrieve information from the future through the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface.
• The God of Wealth left an entertainment video and stopped to listen to a martial artist criticize Martial Dao Secret Medicine for damaging bodies and limiting martial artists’ advancement.
• A listener objected that without the secret medicine, the Martial Dao would be limited to the Third Rank and offer humanity even less help against aliens.
• The speaker claimed Lord Martial God had supported Du Baihua’s opposition to Martial Dao Secret Medicine and promoted the Spirit Tempering System as a more promising alternative.
• The God of Wealth realized that Du Baihua, presented as the system’s fiercest critic, was actually its inventor.

Su Wen questioned a Spirit Tempering System promoter about its theories and research, then grew angry when the promoter’s men followed him. He took the promoter and three Fourth Rank martial artists to a desolate area and demanded that Du Baihua come for them, leaving Du Baihua ten minutes to respond.

• Su Wen asked the promoter a series of detailed questions about the Spirit Tempering System, which the promoter struggled to answer.
• After leaving, Su Wen caught three Fourth Rank martial artists following him and used Spirit Deterrence to frighten them.
• Su Wen seized the three followers and returned to the square, then used Invisible Hand and Spatial Teleportation to take them and the promoter away.
• Su Wen brought the four men to a desolate area and demanded that the promoter contact Du Baihua.
• Du Baihua asked Su Wen to release his subordinates and mentioned his connections to King Rank Heavenly Mandate Bearers, but Su Wen gave him ten minutes to arrive.

Su Wen was recognized as the supposedly dead Martial God by Wealth Shadow, who brought him to a secret base in the Imperial Capital. Su Wen arranged to meet Du Baihua and review his work on the Spirit Tempering System while the Star God took charge of the insect spirits.

• Wealth Shadow appeared before Su Wen, recognized him as Lord Martial God, and knelt in welcome as four martial artists watched in shock.
• Su Wen and Sycee joked about the narrator’s sharp tongue before the Star God asked whether Su Wen would accept the insect spirits into his forces.
• Su Wen agreed the insect spirits could become a powerful force but remained wary of their motives, so the Star God promised to handle the arrangements.
• Wealth Shadow explained that he had come after Du Baihua called for help, then took Su Wen and the martial artists to a secret base.
• Su Wen asked Wealth Shadow to summon Du Baihua and tell him to bring his Spirit Tempering System research, and Du Baihua hurried to the meeting.

Su Wen learned that Du Baihua and Gu Yang had only developed the rudiments of Spirit Martial Arts, then attended to arrangements for the God of Wealth’s state funeral. A military official’s explanation about when the God of Wealth’s identity might be revealed made Su Wen fear that his family and friends had been killed, fueling his hatred of the Arrow Realm’s other races.

• Du Baihua recognized Su Wen as Lord Martial God, knelt, and confessed that he and Gu Yang had only created the rudiments of Spirit Martial Arts.
• Du Baihua presented books and explained the principles and research behind Spirit Martial Arts to Su Wen.
• Su Wen discussed Du Baihua’s subordinates with Sycee before Wind God summoned him to meet a military official about the funeral.
• The military official said the God of Wealth’s identity would be disclosed if the war ended or if his family and social connections were gone.
• Su Wen suspected the Arrow Realm’s other races had killed his loved ones and grew furious, prompting Theater God and Shadow God to notice his anger.

Wealth Spirit learned that having the God of Wealth as his leader guaranteed his advancement, while Zither Master envied Heavenly Mandate Bearers with powerful backers. A blood-red alert then summoned the Black Leaf Squad, and Zither Master revealed that the God of Wealth had fallen in the No. 9 Arrow Realm and would receive a state funeral.

• Zither Master told Wealth Spirit that his leader’s approval could guarantee his advancement to King Rank, unlike leaderless bearers’ risky attempts.
• Zither Master’s bracelet flashed red, and he summoned the Black Leaf Squad to room 204, offering Wealth Spirit his condolences.
• Zither Master announced that the God of Wealth had fallen in the No. 9 Arrow Realm and that Huaxia would hold a state funeral the next morning.
• The Black Leaf Squad members turned to Wealth Spirit with complicated expressions after hearing that his leader had died.

At the God of Wealth’s state funeral, Wealth Spirit feared that his path to advancement had been severed, while Su Wen and the other God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers concealed the truth. Su Wen used the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface to learn the Spirit Guidance Technique and help Wealth Shadow advance, and the River of Space-Time rewarded him.

• Wealth Spirit struggled to accept the God of Wealth’s reported death, and the Black Leaf Squad offered him condolences before observing three minutes of silence.
• The next morning, Heavenly Mandate Bearers attended the state funeral, where Su Wen sat in Martial God’s seat and watched his own corpse as Star God spoke in tribute.
• Su Wen noticed Wealth Spirit’s grief and recalled that the God of Wealth’s aura was concealed by Uncle Theater God’s mask while Star God planned to handle Wealth Spirit later.
• While the funeral proceeded, Su Wen used the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface to learn the Spirit Guidance Technique from Du Baihua’s explanation.
• Wealth Shadow presented Su Wen with a seven-colored treasure pearl, and Su Wen refined it into 500 Wealth Source before permitting Wealth Shadow to advance.
• Su Wen paid 300 Wealth Source Points to appease the River of Space-Time, which decided to give him a gift.

After returning to the Sub-Space-Time, the God of Wealth attended Battle God’s victory banquet and reunited with him. Battle God revealed that several fallen gods had entrusted him with insight energy to pass back to their counterparts in the Main Space-Time, leaving the God of Wealth concerned that he had shared the secret in front of too many people.

• The God of Wealth asked Wealth Shadow and Du Baihua to bring him current Martial Dao research, then used Instant Memorization to absorb hundreds of books.
• Wealth Shadow led the God of Wealth to Battle God’s victory banquet, where guards initially barred them from the inner celebration area.
• The God of Wealth used Mental Rhythm to call Battle God out, and Battle God excitedly welcomed him into the inner area.
• Battle God gave the God of Wealth insight energy entrusted to him by Theater God, Star God, Wind God, and Shadow God, asking him to take it to the Main Space-Time.
• The God of Wealth signaled that Battle God should shield their conversation, realizing he had disclosed the secret in front of nearby guests and Asura Race beings.

During the God of Wealth’s funeral, Su Wen watched the Battle God introduce Huang Tianqi and other powerful subordinates, hoping Su Wen would take note of their potential. After the other gods left, Wealth Spirit mourned the God of Wealth and insisted he and the Martial God had been close, leaving Su Wen baffled.

• The Battle God introduced Huang Tianqi, a Fortune Star who had awakened in 2023 and reached Emperor Rank Middle Stage, and began presenting his other subordinates to Su Wen.
• Su Wen understood that the Battle God wanted him to remember these future heroes and considered how nurturing them could strengthen Huaxia.
• The funeral reached its final rites, and the Theater God, Star God, Wind God, and Shadow God went to pay their respects before leaving the hall.
• Wealth Spirit mourned the God of Wealth, promising to send him paper beauties and pleading for a blessing that would help him reach King Rank.
• Su Wen tried to comfort Wealth Spirit, but Wealth Spirit claimed he had been very close to the God of Wealth and asked to grieve alone, confusing Su Wen.

Su Wen attended a funeral feast with the Star God, Theater God, and Wind God while the Battle God stayed behind to fight the Ferocious Crocodile Tribe. As Su Wen watched the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface, the Battle God revealed how Gaul’s God of Darkness had conspired to capture the Shadow God.

• The Star God invited Su Wen and the others to a lavish funeral feast, and they went together.
• The Battle God declined the invitation while fighting the Ferocious Crocodile Tribe, then activated his domain and began destroying them.
• Su Wen and the other gods enjoyed the feast as nearby Heavenly Mandate Bearers wondered why they seemed cheerful after the God of Wealth’s death.
• The interface described how the Shadow God turned the shadows of those he killed into an undying army that grew stronger through battle.
• The Battle God explained that in year 39, Gaul’s God of Darkness joined three Emperor Rank Limit otherworlders and twenty-seven Emperor Rank otherworlders to surround the Shadow God and attempt to enslave him.

Su Wen told the Theater God and Star God that Gaul’s God of Darkness would join the Arrow Realm in an attempt to enslave the Shadow God, devastating Huaxia’s Shadow Legion and undoing its hard-won gains. The gods left their meal to discuss the future danger, while the Shadow God and Wind God stayed behind.

• In Su Wen’s vision, the God of Darkness and the Arrow Realm attacked the Shadow God, who killed the God of Darkness and twenty-seven Emperor Rank otherkind but suffered irreversible injuries.
• The Battle God avenged the Shadow God by killing the God of Darkness’s family and the three Emperor Rank Limit experts who had ambushed her, along with their blood descendants.
• The Battle God told the God of Wealth to warn everyone about the danger and suggested eliminating the God of Darkness before he could strike.
• Su Wen stopped eating and exchanged meaningful looks with the Theater God and Star God, who left with him for the Theatrical Phenomena World.
• Su Wen explained that the God of Darkness would join forces with the Arrow Realm to enslave the Shadow God, leaving the Shadow Legion nearly unable to fight and shattering Huaxia’s wartime advantage.

The Theater God brought Gaul’s God of Darkness into the Theatrical Phenomena World to investigate his origin after Su Wen reported that the God of Darkness might target the Shadow God. The Theater God and Star God found that the darkness and shadow origins seemed strangely similar, while Ao Xiu took comfort in the captive’s worse predicament.

• The Star God and Theater God discussed whether the God of Darkness could plunder the Shadow God’s divine origin, and Su Wen said the Shadow Legion likely came from the Shadow God’s innate ability.
• The Theater God failed to divine anything about the Arrow Realm, but located Gaul’s God of Darkness and summoned him into the Theatrical Phenomena World.
• The Theater God bound the confused God of Darkness with chains and asked the Star God to examine his origin of darkness.
• The Theater God and Star God debated whether the darkness and shadow origins were actually connected, while Su Wen watched and Ao Xiu felt better by comparison.

The God of Wealth learned why the God of Darkness had enslaved the Shadow God, then stayed with the Battle God as he mourned the losses of the Sub-Space-Time. The Battle God asked the God of Wealth to beat up his Main Space-Time counterpart, and the God of Wealth agreed.

• The Battle God explained that the origins of darkness and shadow were separate but twinlike, and that the God of Darkness may have sought the Shadow Legion or the Shadow God’s power.
• The Battle God’s subordinates made excuses and left, leaving the God of Wealth alone with him.
• The Battle God wept over the friends and companions he had lost in the Sub-Space-Time and recalled how the God of Wealth, Star God, and Theater God had once guided him.
• The Battle God admitted he envied his Main Space-Time counterpart for having a brighter future without enduring the same suffering.
• The Battle God asked the God of Wealth to beat up the Main Space-Time Battle God, and the God of Wealth agreed.