Chapter Summaries

Lu Li deliberately stalled against Ymir, Satan, and Khaos while Odin fought the gods and humans in the God Realm, hoping to force them to unite. When the three Supreme Gods burned their origins to regain their peak power, Lu Li welcomed the battle and revealed an enormous Martial Arts manifestation.

• Lu Li refused Ymir’s offer to rule the New World and stood unharmed after Ymir struck the ground, having severed Ymir’s arm with the Prison Demon Blade.
• Satan and Khaos recognized Lu Li as a formidable threat, while black matter from Lu Li’s blade began corroding Ymir’s wound.
• Buddha questioned Lu Li’s restraint, and Lu Li reassured him that humans and gods would join forces to build a better era.
• Lu Li revealed that he had been stalling to pressure the God Realm’s humans and gods into uniting against Odin.
• Satan, Khaos, and Ymir sacrificed their origins to restore their power, and Lu Li answered their killing intent with an enormous Martial Arts manifestation.

Lu Li killed Ymir with a single sword strike, then summoned the slain giant and Bloodvine to attack the remaining primordial Supreme Gods. After beheading Satan, Lu Li reached Khaos, who was still struggling against Ymir.

• Lu Li suppressed Ymir with his Fear Aura and split the charging giant in two with a sword strike, killing him outright.
• Satan and Khaos retreated after witnessing Ymir's death, while Lu Li sent A'Huo to help Shakyamuni seal the breach between the Nether Realm and the God Realm.
• Lu Li summoned Ymir and Bloodvine through Valhalla; Ymir struck Khaos, and Bloodvine drained Satan's Life Source.
• Lu Li beheaded the weakened Satan, collected his treasure chest, and crossed to Khaos as the battle against Ymir continued.

Lu Li and Aizen defeated the Primordial Cardinal Gods and ended the threat to both realms. After humans and gods celebrated their new equality, Lu Li and Aizen departed to explore the universe.

• Lu Li killed Chaos, Ymir, and Satan, then sent A'Huo to devour the remaining underworld evil ghosts.
• Aizen revealed that Odin had been under Kyōka Suigetsu’s illusion since seeing its Shikai, and Lu Li took over the fight.
• Lu Li killed Odin with one slash, ending the war and saving the world, while Brunhilde was confirmed dead after merging with Okita Souji to block Odin’s attack.
• Humans and gods celebrated together, and Lu Li was honored as the Human King alongside Zeus, the God King.
• Lu Li told the gods he would explore the universe, retrieved A'Huo from the underworld, and left for the stars with Aizen.

Lu Li settled the Record of Ragnarok mission, earned an S+ evaluation, and chose rewards including the Human King and God Slayer titles. After deciding not to keep the world as a home world, he began certifying his loot and opening the Primordial Gods’ chests, ending in surprise at Chaos’s modest haul.

• Lu Li completed settlement, reached level 67, and received an S+ evaluation with five reward selections, plus an extra selection for giving up the world.
• Lu Li asked Aizen whether to store the Valkyrie world, and Aizen advised taking immediate rewards instead.
• Lu Li inspected the Human King and God Slayer titles and selected both, along with Doomsday Coins, inheritance crystals, and Origin Piercer.
• Lu Li certified his collected divine weapons and prepared to open the Celestial-Grade chests dropped by Satan and Chaos.
• Lu Li opened Chaos’s chest and received only 25 Large Inheritance Crystals, leaving him puzzled.

Lu Li opened two Demon Emperor's Chests, upgraded and strengthened his Thunder God-King Bloodline, then learned that Gourmet Hunter was reopening as a mission world. He offered to pay for information about it, but the group’s members backed away after seeing Fat Dragon’s locator price.

• A'Huo opened a chest and obtained Gungnir, while Lu Li opened another and obtained Satan's Power; Lu Li sent his sale items to Sōsuke and posted the two rewards in the group chat.
• Lu Li asked Doomsday to upgrade his Thunder God-King Bloodline, which gained powerful enhancements, and then spent crystals and Doomsday Coins to strengthen it twice.
• Lu Li saw group members asking him to take them to the next world and learned from Demon Spirit that Gourmet Hunter was reopening and Fat Dragon's shop was selling locators.
• Lu Li offered to pay for information about Gourmet Hunter, but My Big Stick is a Bit Thick revealed the locator required two S+ ranks, prompting most interested members to give up.

Lu Li learned more about Gourmet Hunter World and sold his recovered divine artifacts, then spent much of his earnings on three gems suited to his equipment. After socketing them, he and Aizen headed to Shrimp Meat’s shop to celebrate and discuss their mission-world plans.

• Lu Li learned that Gourmet Hunter World offered Seventh Order Explorers chances to grow stronger by eating, though it also contained dangerous creatures.
• Lu Li sold Gungnir and Satan's Power to group members, paid his debt to Doomsday, and kept forty million.
• Lu Li found Chuchu’s shop closed and learned she had entered a mission world to train as a Supporter, so he asked Sōsuke to look for gems.
• Lu Li fought his way into the arena’s top thousand before stopping against opponents whose attributes and combat skills made further progress difficult.
• Aizen sold Lu Li’s goods and found him the Heart of the Heavenly Demon, Spirit Dewdrop, and Killing Life gems.
• Lu Li socketed the three gems into his equipment, then joined Aizen on a trip to Shrimp Meat’s shop to celebrate and confirm their mission plans.

Lu Li and Aizen enjoyed Shrimp Meat’s extraordinary dishes and promised to help her obtain ingredients in the Gourmet Hunter World. After registering her as a temporary member, they encountered someone who blocked Shrimp Meat’s path in the Adventure Hall.

• Lu Li devoured the Snowflake Fat Elephant Roasted Meat while Aizen tasted the dreamlike Dream Crystal Tofu and its crab-roe sauce.
• Shrimp Meat revealed that the two dishes had cost five million Doomsday Coins and used up her savings, and Lu Li promised to help her get ingredients.
• Lu Li explained that he would take Shrimp Meat into the Gourmet Hunter World as a temporary member, while Aizen began studying how to conquer the world.
• Lu Li and Aizen brought Shrimp Meat to the Adventure Hall to register her, but a figure rushed over and blocked her path.

Lu Li recruited Shrimp Meat for their trip to the Gourmet Hunter World and later bought a growth-type Gourmet Collector's Medal from Fat Dragon's Surprise Shop. He then brought Scarlett to the Reinforcement Hall and began searching for a reinforcement trait.

• Lu Li drove Copper Axe away when the Zhan Tian Adventurer Group member tried to recruit Shrimp Meat, and Shrimp Meat joined Lu Li's team.
• Ten days later, Lu Li visited Fat Dragon's Surprise Shop and found a Gourmet Hunter World locator that cost more than he could afford.
• Lu Li bought the Gourmet Collector's Medal with an S+ Rating Medal, gaining equipment that recorded new delicacies and granted food-based bonuses.
• Fat Dragon warned Lu Li not to tell anyone about its footprints, while Lu Li wondered who had beaten the powerful group leader.
• Lu Li took Scarlett to the Reinforcement Hall, placed her and a protection item in the reinforcement furnace, and began searching for a reinforcement trait.

Lu Li completed Scarlett’s enhancement, strengthened his cultivation art, and entered the Gourmet Hunter world with Aizen and Shrimp Meat. After rescuing Shrimp Meat from a giant python, he discovered that Aizen was nowhere nearby.

• Lu Li completed Scarlett’s enhancement to +11, giving her the Delay trait that doubled the duration of his beneficial statuses.
• Lu Li fused the Grand Chaos Body Tempering Art with his Asura Art, raising his attributes and making his normal state stronger.
• Aizen and Shrimp Meat joined Lu Li before the team entered the Gourmet Hunter world, where the group learned the world’s basic rules and settings.
• During transmission, Lu Li saw enormous elephants racing through the universe and wondered how they would taste.
• Lu Li arrived in a primitive forest, beheaded a giant python threatening Shrimp Meat, and helped her down from a tree.
• Lu Li searched for Aizen and found no trace of him within several thousand kilometers.

Lu Li learned that Aizen had arrived in a different colored universe and decided they would explore separately. After reviewing his missions, Lu Li teamed up with Shrimp Meat to hunt and process gourmet ingredients, then devoured a giant Swiss Roll snake.

• Lu Li contacted Aizen, who reported that he was in another universe and chose to explore it alone.
• Lu Li reviewed his mission to obtain Gourmet Cells within a month and the team mission to taste food from all five universes.
• Shrimp Meat explained her ingredient-gathering mission and how her Supporter mark stored processed food for the space.
• Lu Li and Shrimp Meat began their gourmet journey in a Human World ecosystem, where Shrimp Meat expertly dismantled a giant Swiss Roll snake.
• Lu Li ate the enormous Swiss Roll snake in seconds using his abyssal maw and the Preta Path.

Lu Li and Xia Ren left the Northern Continent ecological zone so he could sell an Elephant Dragon and pursue his Gourmet Cells mission. After joining IGO as a registered Gourmet Hunter, Lu Li asked Director Mansam to help them obtain legal identities.

• Lu Li and Xia Ren sampled Swiss Roll before Lu Li stopped A'Huo from eating it all, leaving Xia Ren a piece to store for End Space.
• Lu Li carried a captured Elephant Dragon to Gourmet Central Wholesale Market and agreed to sell it to IGO buyer Charles at market price.
• Charles invited Lu Li to join IGO, and Lu Li accepted so he and Xia Ren could gain identities and access to IGO resources.
• At IGO headquarters, Lu Li met Director Mansam, who welcomed him and explained the freedom and benefits of being a registered Gourmet Hunter.
• Lu Li joined IGO and asked Mansam to help him and Xia Ren obtain Gourmet IDs.

Lu Li proved his strength to Mansam and underwent tests at IGO, which found his cells nearly impossible to damage and unlike any known Gourmet Cells. After Lu Li asked to receive Gourmet Cells, Mansam provided an injection, and Lu Li drove it into his spine.

• Mansam arranged identities for Lu Li and Shrimp Meat, then showed them around IGO headquarters.
• Lu Li defeated Mansam in an arm-wrestling match without using his full strength, astonishing the staff.
• Lu Li told Mansam he had no Gourmet Cells, and tests found that researchers could not pierce or destroy his cells with their equipment.
• Lu Li revealed that he wanted to try Gourmet Cells, and Mansam agreed to provide an injection despite the risks.
• Lu Li took the injection and drove its needle into his spine, feeling the foreign cells spread through his body.

Lu Li discovered that injected Gourmet Cells were absorbed by his body instead of fusing, so he negotiated with Mansam to work for IGO in exchange for more injections. He accepted a mission to retrieve Jewel Meat from a Legal Mammoth and explored the First Ecological Area with Shrimp Meat, collecting and eating ingredients as they traveled.

• Lu Li found that his body had absorbed the injected Gourmet Cells without any obvious change, and he asked Mansam for more injections because he suspected the dose was too small.
• Lu Li agreed to work for IGO in exchange for a large supply of Gourmet Cell injections, and Mansam recruited him to retrieve Jewel Meat from a Legal Mammoth.
• Lu Li accepted Mansam's assignment to go to the First Ecological Area, where the Legal Mammoth was located.
• Lu Li and Shrimp Meat spent two days exploring the area, eating and collecting hundreds of ingredients while Lu Li used his Divine Sense to watch for intruders.
• Lu Li gained a small damage-dispersal bonus from eating Yamata Snail, while Shrimp Meat eventually became too full to continue.

Lu Li retrieved the Jewel Meat from the Legal Mammoth while frightening off a group of Explorers, then shared some with Shrimp Meat and delivered the rest to Director Mansam. He asked IGO for a huge supply of purified Gourmet Cells, but Mansam said he could provide at most one hundred thousand doses.

• Lu Li learned that Explorers had invaded the First Ecological Area and hurried to the Regal Plateau to secure the Legal Mammoth's Jewel Meat.
• A group of Explorers arrived to steal the Jewel Meat, but the Legal Mammoth charged toward Lu Li and then submitted when it sensed his strength.
• Lu Li removed the Jewel Meat without killing the Legal Mammoth, ate a slice, and let the frightened Explorers go.
• Lu Li and Shrimp Meat brought the Jewel Meat to Director Mansam, who accepted it and discussed Lu Li's request for Gourmet Cell injections.
• Lu Li asked IGO for one million doses of purified Gourmet Cells, but Mansam explained that IGO could provide at most one hundred thousand.

Lu Li delivered a large haul of Gourmet World ingredients to IGO and agreed to help obtain a high-level Scare Apple while waiting for his Gourmet Cell injections. At Scare Island, his Fear Aura sent an apple’s Scare Level soaring beyond 70, and its level continued to rise.

• Lu Li and Mansam agreed that IGO would prepare 100,000 Gourmet Cell injections in exchange for Lu Li supplying ingredients, and Lu Li shared a meal with Toriko, Komatsu, and Shrimp Meat.
• Lu Li delivered numerous rare and Legendary Grade ingredients to IGO, impressing Mansam with how quickly he had gathered them in the Gourmet World.
• Mansam asked Lu Li to obtain a Scare Apple with a Scare Level above 80, and Lu Li accepted while waiting for the injections to be prepared.
• At Scare Island, Shrimp Meat failed to frighten an apple, while Sōkei the Zombie raised another apple to Level 80 with a fart.
• Lu Li approached Shrimp Meat’s apple and released some of his Fear Aura, raising its Scare Level past 70 as Toriko and others watched.
• The Scare Apple’s level suddenly surged higher and continued climbing.

Lu Li returned to the Gourmet Research Institute after terrifying the Scare Apple and began awakening Gourmet Cells with IGO’s newly prepared injection. He absorbed the entire supply, gained a new Gourmet Cells bloodline, and learned that eating gourmet food would be needed to strengthen it.

• Lu Li raised the Scare Apple’s scare level to the appraisers’ theoretical limit of one hundred, frightening nearby people and astonishing Toriko and Red Ogre.
• Lu Li apologized to the park staff, then ate with Toriko before returning to IGO after hearing that Mansam had prepared one hundred thousand doses of primordial Gourmet Cells.
• Mansam led Lu Li to the laboratory, where Lu Li rejected suggestions to start with a small dose and injected the cells directly into his spine.
• Lu Li’s body drew in the Gourmet Cells at an extreme rate, and he used the Grand Chaos Body Tempering Art to guide them as they adapted and mutated throughout his body.
• After the IV bottle emptied, Lu Li found that his Spirit Seed menu had gained an SSS- Gourmet Cells bloodline, which could evolve through eating high-energy gourmet food.

Lu Li awakened his Gourmet Cells, feasted at the IGO Gourmet Research Institute, and received quests to obtain a Gourmet Demon and complete a Life Course Meal. After Mansam gave him three Gourmet Cell doses for Shrimp Meat, she unexpectedly awakened her own Gourmet Cells without complications.

• Lu Li told Mansam he had succeeded in awakening his Gourmet Cells, then devoured the institute’s food supplies until he was eighty percent full.
• Lu Li promised to find Mansam ingredients from the Gourmet World and saw that the feast had increased his attributes by five points.
• Lu Li received the Certain Death quest to obtain an awakened Gourmet Demon within two months and a Hidden Quest to complete his Life Course Meal menu.
• Lu Li drank with Mansam, then took three Gourmet Cell doses for Shrimp Meat and persuaded her to use one so she could grow stronger.
• Shrimp Meat awakened her Gourmet Cells after a simple injection, leaving Lu Li surprised that she needed no treatment.

Aizen investigated the Blue Universe, confronted an Ancient Wilderness Space violator, and learned that NEO might be on Earth. In the Red Universe, Ichiryu was astonished by Lu Li’s medical report, while Lu Li and Shrimp Meat prepared to eat Ozone Grass together.

• Aizen concluded that Lu Li’s contract with Shrimp Meat had led him to Earth, and he suspected that NEO was in the Red Universe after hearing legends about the monster.
• Aizen confronted a red-furred violator from Ancient Wilderness Space, who mistook his own severed arm for Aizen’s and began eating it.
• Ichiryu reviewed Lu Li’s medical report, learned that his weight was 890 kilograms and that he had acquired Gourmet Cells, and decided to meet him.
• Lu Li brought Shrimp Meat to Sky Vegetable Garden to find the Vegetable King after realizing that higher Capture Levels did not necessarily mean tastier ingredients.
• Shrimp Meat helped Lu Li open an Ozone Grass, then reminded him that two people had to eat it together.

Lu Li and Shrimp Meat shared Ozone Grass at Sky Farm, learning how to eat it before it withered and enjoying its flavor together. As they traveled on, Lu Li postponed their trip to find Century Soup because he wanted to give Shrimp Meat a gift.

• Lu Li ate Ozone Grass before Shrimp Meat could explain how it worked, then invited her to eat from the other side with him.
• Lu Li ate too quickly, causing their first shared stalk to wither before Shrimp Meat could tear off her bite, so they found another and ate it successfully.
• Lu Li and Shrimp Meat gathered Ozone Grass to share with Mansam and to save some for Sōsuke.
• Shrimp Meat asked why Lu Li had delayed their journey to find Century Soup, and he said there was time before it was ready and he wanted to give her a gift.

Lu Li brought Shrimp Meat to Melk II to request a new kitchen knife and have Prison Demon sharpened, offering to help her find her Master and Melk Star in return. Melk II agreed to forge for them, but Lu Li’s Dragon King materials left her stunned and questioning whether he had hunted the Dragon King.

• Lu Li offered Shrimp Meat a new kitchen knife and explained that he also wanted Melk to sharpen Prison Demon.
• Shrimp Meat asked Melk II to prioritize forging her knife in exchange for help finding her Master and Melk Star, and Melk II agreed.
• Lu Li showed Melk II a fresh Dragon King Derous fang, startling her with its likely connection to the recent turmoil in the Gourmet World.
• Lu Li revealed the Dragon King's Heart as well, leaving Melk II convinced that the Dragon King had been hunted and its remains brought before her.