[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-dimensional-demon-god-s-chat-group":3,"chapter-the-dimensional-demon-god-s-chat-group-the-dimensional-demon-god-s-chat-group-chapter-90":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Dimensional Demon God's Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2277657,4455,"Chapter 90: Five Years Later","the-dimensional-demon-god-s-chat-group-chapter-90",90,"\u003Cp>Time flies, years pass like a shuttle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, five years have passed since Old Vol became a retainer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During these five years, the development of Spine Peak City exceeded everyone’s expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, urban construction: with the aid of the native Wood Sacred Scripture, progress that was already impressive accelerated like a rocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within just half a year, the planned city walls and districts were completed in sequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the city walls, which rose from their original thirty meters to about eighty meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magical barrier built along the walls, refined by Grand Magus Vlamé, no longer relied solely on magic crystals but could link to the magic of all city residents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Lin Yu’s true body stationed in the city, this system amounted to infinite energy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Forest Lord and Grand Magus Vlamé as backing, Spine Peak City’s reputation spread further, and many even called it the safest city in the world, drawing more war-torn refugees to join.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, more and more people flooded into Spine Peak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just two years, the city’s population exceeded thirty thousand, nearing saturation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeking Lin Yu’s approval, Old Vol waved his hand and drafted a new Spine Peak City construction plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this new plan, the original Spine Peak City would become the inner city, with the entire settlement expanding tenfold in diameter, surrounded by a larger outer city wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, the outer city is complete, and the total population of Spine Peak Domain has reached a new high of one hundred fifty thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t think this number is small: in this era, even the mighty Unified Empire has only its capital and a few super-cities with over one hundred thousand people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some surrounding small nations may have only two or three hundred thousand people total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spine Peak City, sustaining one hundred fifty thousand people while ensuring everyone has ample food and clothing and lives without worry, is truly the greatest miracle of this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of this, neighboring nations have begun to quietly regard Spine Peak Domain as an independent state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the most powerful Unified Empire sends official diplomats to establish relations with Spine Peak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, even with all these advantages, reaching this level in just five years was extremely difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, besides the “safest city” hype, much of Spine Peak Domain’s population growth owes credit to the retainers Old Vol transformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After obtaining the [Heart of the Retainer], Old Vol’s first transformed retainer was naturally his wife, Liya.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was his only personal indulgence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From then on, his sole criterion for transforming retainers was loyalty to Lin Yu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his own son, Dai Meng, he refused to transform until his loyalty was confirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to Old Vol, every retainer transformed thereafter was a devout believer in Lin Yu, mostly young people; the elderly preferred the current stable life and were less fervent in their faith in Lin Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people, leaving Spine Peak Domain to walk the world, naturally praised Spine Peak City as the finest place on earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some overly devout retainers even actively preached to outsiders, urging them to convert to Lin Yu…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did the Church of the Goddess find this unbearable—even Lin Yu himself grew exasperated, repeatedly declaring he needed no worship, barely curbing this wave of “spreading the flame.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Lin Yu suppressed them only to avoid being harassed by endless prayers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Church of the Goddess or any other faction thought they were afraid of him, they were utterly mistaken!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These retainers were not easy to deal with: though they lacked the supernatural abilities of true retainers, they possessed innate magical affinity and the power to rebirth within their inner universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, each had extraordinary magical talent; with effort and time, all could become powerful magi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidentally, Lin Yu needed these retainers as his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, before letting them go, he had his avatar spare a year to personally teach them magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That single year of instruction gave these hundred-plus retainers sufficient self-preservation ability—even against a Grand Magus like Vlamé, they could escape after defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such an absurd power boost was not achieved through normal means.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes, “When the top is crooked, the bottom will be crooked too”; under Lin Yu’s avatar’s unconventional teaching, these retainers’ mental states grew increasingly odd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially certain retainers with bizarre mindsets, who gave Lin Yu a distinct sense of déjà vu—he had created another strange group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like unlimited magic absorption until bursting, then rebirth with a greatly increased magic cap…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or placing oneself in life-or-death peril to forge spiritual power into a qualitative leap…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All manner of suicide-worthy magical experiments became the subjects these rebirth-capable retainers pursued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, Lin Yu was eager to give them sufficient power and paid little attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only later, when these idea-mongers began calculating how many lives to spend on difficult experiments, did Lin Yu belatedly realize he had trained a group of Fourth Catastrophes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With things at this point, Lin Yu could only accept reality and reluctantly let these retainers loose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since then, a new race calling itself the “Immortal Clan” began traveling the world, becoming the third immortal race in the eyes of the world, alongside elves and demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The name “Immortal Clan” was naturally requested by Old Vol from Lin Yu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lin Yu bestowed the name, he never imagined they would cause such chaos—it was truly a wasted title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just a few years, these Immortal Clan members traveled far and wide, fulfilling expectations by creating countless troubles, provoking strong resentment from many factions including the Church of the Goddess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To outsiders, these Immortal Clan members were far more troublesome than demons!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demons only wanted people’s lives and didn’t care who they were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Immortal Clan were different: their moral compasses were bizarrely upright; whenever they encountered injustice or deemed a city’s system too exploitative, they would act decisively, using physical force to satisfy their sense of righteousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these Immortal Clan members were all powerful magi, fighting fiercely without fear of death, treating their own lives as nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more terrifying was that numerous rumors about the Immortal Clan confirmed one fact—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That they truly seemed immortal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most widely circulated tales were two: the first was the infamous Eighteen Heroes, who formed a group to attack the Demon King’s city and were predictably wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as northern cities mourned these eighteen heroes, they reappeared alive and well from Spine Peak City, continuing their activities as if nothing had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second legend involved a young imperial prince of the empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While traveling in the north, he witnessed his Immortal Clan friend killed by demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young prince, heartbroken, carried his friend’s remains thousands of miles back home, only to be astonished upon arriving in Spine Peak City to be warmly welcomed by his friend himself…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, all rumors confirmed the Immortal Clan’s terrifying nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Major factions, including the Church of the Goddess, were deeply troubled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn’t defeat them, couldn’t kill them, couldn’t silence them—so they simply avoided the Immortal Clan, cautiously dealing with these eccentric lunatics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, some had tried capturing Immortal Clan members to uncover their secret of immortality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But whenever anyone dared such a thing, Lin Yu would send Old Vol and Longlongyan to personally visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last high-ranking figure who dared capture an Immortal Clan member had vanished from history along with his entire nation…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, as long as they didn’t cross the line, Spine Peak City turned a blind eye to the Immortal Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life or death was their own fate; whatever choice they made, they must bear the consequences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yu’s role was merely to treat them as his eyes, silently observing their fates intertwined with the world’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another morning, three figures appeared on the northern road of Spine Peak Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing at the magnificent wall at the horizon, Vlamé couldn’t help but feel nostalgic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five years ago, she had arrived at Spine Peak City along this same road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Spine Peak City was not nearly so vast; the inner city walls hadn’t even been built, and from this distance, only the dense forest ahead was visible—no trace of the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, as soon as they stepped onto this road, they could see the city’s three-hundred-meter-high clock tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the forest north of the city, the hundred-meter-tall outer city wall loomed with overwhelming force…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing at the clearly outlined city ahead, the silver-haired elf girl smiled and urged, “Teacher, the Flame Furnace Hotpot on Molten Street opens when the sun rises—if we enter now, we can catch the freshest ingredients!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vlamé snapped back to reality and sighed, “I don’t understand why you like their food—they dump lava peppers like they’re free, stuffing them into the pot until they’re determined to burn their customers’ mouths off.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tall warrior beside her chuckled, “What does it matter? Fllien won’t order a spicy pot anyway.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vlamé shook her head, “Then there’s even less reason to go there!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fllien said seriously, “Even a clear broth pot is most authentic at their place… Isn’t that right, Dai Meng?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke these final words, Fllien turned to the warrior beside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, the warrior accompanying this master-disciple pair in recent years was Dai Meng Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vlamé and her disciple were both magi and still needed frontline protection in battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering this, Vlamé, upon receiving Lin Yu’s request, immediately began recruiting frontline guards from Spine Peak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Lin Yu remembered his old promise to Dai Meng and suggested Dai Meng accompany them on their adventures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1612,"2026-06-20T00:29:28.871Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e1ce1b6768708ef82f1afa00e1eecbf4681fc9b1aae2c21cfa9155993f77b17e","the-dimensional-demon-god-s-chat-group-chapter-91","the-dimensional-demon-god-s-chat-group-chapter-89",206,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-dimensional-demon-god-s-chat-group-cover.jpg"]