Chapter Summaries

The Ten-Tails defeated eight S-Class heroes, terrifying the Hero Association and civilians watching the broadcast. Great Eyeball tried to recruit Feng Ye and Lilith into the Monster Association, but Feng Ye refused and destroyed her approaching split body.

• The Ten-Tails' display of power left the Hero Association staff and broadcast viewers trembling, while Great Eyeball compared its strength to Monster King Orochi.
• Orochi said he would accept a challenge for the Monster King position if the Ten-Tails joined the Monster Association and proved stronger.
• Saitama remotely controlled Great Eyeball and sent a split body to approach Feng Ye and Lilith with an offer to unite against the Hero Association.
• Feng Ye recognized that the Monster Association was secretly developing before Boros's spaceship arrived and confirmed Great Eyeball's reasoning about joining forces.
• Feng Ye refused the offer and destroyed Great Eyeball's split body with a Chakra tentacle.
• Saitama reported that negotiations had failed, and Orochi accepted the refusal while Saitama regretted losing the chance to strengthen the Monster Association.

Feng Ye waited for his Ten-Tails transformation to fade while the Hero Association feared that his and Lilith’s appearance marked a God-level disaster. Tatsumaki arrived, rescued the defeated S-Class heroes, and crushed both Ten-Tails into a huge sphere, leaving Feng Ye to assess her power.

• Feng Ye judged that his out-of-control Ten-Tails form would soon disappear and thought about whether Saitama could match him.
• The Hero Association monitoring room classified the two Ten-Tails as a threat beyond Dragon-level after eight S-Class heroes were defeated.
• Tatsumaki arrived, mocked the fallen heroes, tore them free from the Ten-Tails’ tentacles, and sent them to safety.
• Feng Ye let Tatsumaki attack while he assessed her Psychic Power as far stronger than that of the other S-Class heroes.
• Tatsumaki bound Feng Ye and Lilith’s Ten-Tails forms, compressed them into a massive sphere, and dropped it onto the ground.

Tatsumaki fought Lilith and Feng Ye but was overwhelmed by their combined power and captured. Feng Ye then recaptured the other S-Class heroes, leaving them all bound in the sky.

• Lilith broke free of Tatsumaki's psychic sphere and attacked her with her tails.
• Tatsumaki tore off Lilith's tails, but their tentacles bound her until Feng Ye ordered Lilith not to kill her.
• Feng Ye's enormous tails broke through Tatsumaki's psychic barrier and knocked her unconscious.
• Feng Ye caught Tatsumaki in his tentacles, and her psychic power remained unusable after the strain.
• Feng Ye's tentacles seized Atomic Samurai and the other S-Class heroes again, leaving them all bound alongside Tatsumaki.

The Hero Association and Saitama recognized Feng Ye as a god-level threat after he defeated Tatsumaki and the other S-Class heroes. As the Association scrambled to summon reinforcements, Genos arrived and Saitama walked toward the Ten-Tails.

• Hero Association staff and executives watched footage of Tatsumaki's defeat and realized Feng Ye might be a disaster-level God.
• Saitama feared Feng Ye could destroy humanity, while Orochi asked Great Eyeball to help him evolve further.
• The Hero Association tried to contact Blast and King, learned other S-Class heroes were on their way, and ordered Genos not to act rashly.
• Genos arrived, assessed the Ten-Tails, and concluded he had no chance of defeating it alone.
• Saitama appeared near Genos, greeted him, and walked toward the Ten-Tails.

As Saitama approached the Ten-Tails, Feng Ye absorbed Lilith and challenged him with a powerful attack. Saitama stopped the blow with one ordinary punch, leaving viewers across the world stunned.

• People watching the surveillance footage noticed Saitama walking toward the Ten-Tails and assumed he was a low-ranked hero doomed to die.
• Lilith sensed that Saitama was dangerous and tried to shield Feng Ye, but Feng Ye restrained her and absorbed her Ten-Tails body.
• Feng Ye recognized Saitama as the strongest person in the One-Punch Man world and wondered at his ability to perceive him as different from a monster.
• Saitama tentatively classified Feng Ye as a monster, and Feng Ye attacked him with three intertwined Ten-Tails tails, using nearly seventy percent of his available power.
• Saitama halted the massive tails with a single ordinary punch, and stunned onlookers cried out across the Hero Association headquarters and the cities.

Saitama fought Feng Ye’s Ten-Tails after blocking its attacks, and the battle escalated until Saitama announced he would get serious. He ended the chapter gripping the shattered ground to perform his Serious Table Flip.

• Saitama blocked the Ten-Tails’ tail strike with one punch, astonishing the restrained S-Class heroes and Feng Ye.
• Feng Ye flung the S-Class heroes away and challenged Saitama, who charged in with Consecutive Normal Punches.
• The Ten-Tails absorbed the barrage, healed its damaged tails, and blasted Saitama with a massive golden beam.
• Saitama survived the explosion without injury, though his clothes were torn, and said he would get serious.
• Saitama gripped the shattered ground and began his Serious Series move, Serious Table Flip.

Saitama and Feng Ye’s Ten-Tails fought in the sky above City B, with Feng Ye escalating the battle to a planet-spanning golden attack. Saitama shattered the attack and struck the Ten-Tails with a Serious Punch, leaving the world stunned as its upper body vanished.

• Saitama hurled the Ten-Tails and the surrounding land into the sky, then attacked it with Two-Handed Consecutive Normal Punches.
• Feng Ye accelerated time and used Twentyfold Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven to spin the Ten-Tails and block Saitama’s barrage.
• Feng Ye made the Ten-Tails unleash Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, sending a vast golden beam down toward Saitama.
• Saitama smashed the beam apart with a Serious Headbutt and followed with a Serious Punch.
• Saitama’s blow destroyed the Ten-Tails’ tails, hands, and upper torso, while the sky split open and people across the world fell silent.

Saitama and Feng Ye continued their fight in the asteroid belt after Feng Ye regenerated from Saitama’s Serious Punch and hurled him into space. They ended the battle as mutual rivals, but Feng Ye left before Saitama could ask how to return to Earth.

• The Ten-Tails regenerated after Saitama’s Serious Punch, and Feng Ye said the form made it difficult for Saitama to use his full strength.
• Feng Ye wrapped Saitama in a tentacle and threw him into space, then chased him to the asteroid belt.
• Feng Ye and Saitama fought among the meteoroids while satellites transmitted the battle footage back to Earth.
• After about an hour, Saitama called Feng Ye the strongest monster he had fought, and Feng Ye praised Saitama’s Taijutsu and called him the strongest person he had met.
• Feng Ye promised to fight Saitama again in his stronger form and vanished, leaving Saitama stranded in space.

After Saitama stopped the Ten-Tails in space, the Hero Association declared One-Eyed Emperor a God-level threat and promoted Saitama to eighth place in S-Class as Bald Emperor. Five days later, Feng Ye and Lilith returned to normal in the asteroid belt, and Feng Ye prepared to take them back to Earth.

• The heroes watched Saitama drive the Ten-Tails away, and the Hero Association later classified One-Eyed Emperor as a God-level disaster that had retreated rather than been defeated.
• The Hero Association promoted Saitama directly to eighth place in S-Class, while King approved the promotion with the Emperor Engine; Saitama received the hero name Bald Emperor.
• Feng Ye used the Phantom Clock to jump five days into the future, bringing himself and Lilith to the asteroid belt, where he explained that he had chosen not to kill Saitama in the past.
• Feng Ye and Lilith waited in the asteroid belt until the Chakra Fruit's power adapted to the world's rules, then returned to human form.
• Feng Ye opened a Space-Time Corridor, handed Lilith clothes, and prepared to return to Earth.

After settling in City A, Feng Ye learned about the public reaction to his battle with Saitama and considered how to live in the One-Punch Man world. He decided to pursue the identities of the strongest monster and the strongest hero while seeking greater power through planting a God Tree.

• Feng Ye used Magnet Release to obtain gold and exchanged it for 247.28 million yuan.
• Feng Ye read an article questioning Saitama’s victory over the One-Eyed Emperor and mocked the public’s doubts about Saitama’s strength.
• Lilith licked the tea Feng Ye had drunk, and Feng Ye told her not to do that and to avoid calling him Father so often in this modern world.
• Feng Ye decided to adopt the identities of the strongest monster and the strongest hero in this world.
• Feng Ye resolved to surpass Saitama in pure strength and recognized the world as an ideal place to plant a God Tree.

Feng Ye planted a God Tree Seed outside the human survival zones, where it consumed a powerful monster and rapidly grew. As the sapling began absorbing nearby monsters, Feng Ye realized it had absorbed Monster Cells.

• Feng Ye and Lilith traveled to a remote area outside the human survival zones to plant the God Tree.
• Lilith used Banshō Ten'in to uproot and crush a mutated tree that Feng Ye estimated was near Demon-level.
• Feng Ye created a God Tree Seed and dropped it toward the ground.
• A near Dragon-level monster swallowed the seed, but it burst from the monster's body and grew into a towering God Tree.
• The God Tree sent roots through nearby monster trees and flowers, and Feng Ye noticed that it had absorbed Monster Cells.

Feng Ye watched the God Tree sapling evolve after consuming Monster Cells, realizing that the world's power of evolution could help him grow stronger. When the sapling gained consciousness and fled underground, he used Time Reversal to erase the God Tree portion and reclaim its power.

• Feng Ye observed the God Tree sapling mutate as it consumed monsters, and concluded that evolution could open a path to greater power.
• The sapling grew branches and red flower-like growths, then developed consciousness and attacked Feng Ye and Lilith.
• Feng Ye twice erased the sapling's new life with the Reincarnated Tenseigan, but it repeatedly evolved and gained resistance to the ability.
• The God Tree Juvenile Body escaped underground after deciding it could not defeat Feng Ye.
• Feng Ye used Time Reversal to erase the God Tree Juvenile Body from time and reclaim its power, while Lilith called it foolish.

Feng Ye tested how Monster Cells affected God Tree Seeds and learned that Monsterization made them rapidly grow and develop independent consciousness. He also swallowed Monster Cells himself, but his vast Chakra overwhelmed their influence.

• Feng Ye told Lilith to capture monsters, then fed a Monster Cell to a God Tree Seed, which mutated into a root-covered sapling and attacked them.
• Lilith destroyed the mutated sapling with her blood-red Chakra, blasting away its roots as it tried to escape underground.
• Feng Ye created more God Tree Seeds and tested them with monsters, observing that the seeds quickly grew, developed consciousness, and became independent lifeforms.
• Feng Ye swallowed a monster with a transformed tail, but the Monster Cells inside him were extinguished by his Chakra before they could affect him.

Feng Ye created Divine Tree Pain to grow into a powerful monster whose energy he could reclaim to trigger his own evolution. After leaving Lilith to help it capture monsters, he returned to City A and applied to join the Hero Association.

• Feng Ye decided to cultivate a God Tree into a monster stronger than Boros and reclaim its power to fuel his evolution.
• Feng Ye fused a God Tree Seed with the remaining monster bodies and used the Rinnegan to create Divine Tree Pain under his control.
• Feng Ye sent Divine Tree Pain to the ground, fed it dozens of monsters through Yomotsu Hirasaka, and left Lilith to help it capture more.
• Feng Ye returned to City A and submitted a Hero Association application listing his specialty as being handsome and his reason for applying as interest.
• Hero Association staff discussed Feng Ye's application and doubted he was serious about becoming a hero.

At the Hero Examination in City A, Feng Ye used lightning and a mysterious power multiplier during the physical test, astonishing the candidates and staff. Supervisor Kino recorded him as a perfect score and began documenting his apparent esper ability.

• Feng Ye attracted attention at the testing ground, where some candidates argued over his looks and qualifications.
• Feng Ye activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and a twentyfold mark for the side-to-side jump test.
• Feng Ye moved amid intense lightning for thirty seconds, stunning everyone at the testing ground.
• Supervisor Kino judged Feng Ye to be at least A-Class level and ordered his results recorded as a perfect score.
• Feng Ye told Supervisor Kino that imitating anime characters had suddenly given him their abilities.

Feng Ye completed the Hero Association examination with perfect scores and was rated A-Class, while Fubuki learned of his promotion and ordered her subordinate to investigate him. Meanwhile, the Deep Sea Tribe emerged from the sea near City J and began attacking the coast.

• Feng Ye used lightning to finish the physical tests, and the association supervisor recorded his 1,500-meter run as one millisecond.
• Feng Ye received a perfect score of 100 and an A-Class rating, then burned the score envelope and left the testing grounds.
• Fubuki learned that the association had exceptionally promoted Feng Ye to A-Class and ordered Eyelashes to investigate where he lived.
• A giant octopus monster destroyed a fishing boat near City J, declared that the Deep Sea Tribe would rule the land, and drove the fishermen to flee.
• Monsters from the sea emerged onto the shore, marking the Deep Sea Tribe's descent.

The Deep Sea King defeated Sexy-Fist as civilians in City J’s shelter feared there were no heroes left to save them. Just as Speed-o'-Sound Sonic prepared to fight, a silver-haired young man appeared behind him and stepped toward the Deep Sea King.

• Hero Association staff raised the disaster alert to Demon after learning that Stinger had been defeated and notified heroes near City J.
• The Deep Sea King overwhelmed Sexy-Fist in the rain, leaving him unable to continue fighting.
• Sonic stepped between the fallen Sexy-Fist and the Deep Sea King, challenging the monster despite knowing its strength.
• A silver-haired young man appeared behind Sonic, startling him with an unnoticed pat on the shoulder.
• The young man asked Sonic to step aside and walked toward the Deep Sea King.

Feng Ye arrived in City J and killed the Deep Sea King with a single lightning strike, saving the civilians. After defeating Speed-o'-Sound Sonic in a brief clash, Feng Ye left as Genos arrived and recognized his extraordinary speed.

• Feng Ye appeared before the shelter and split the Deep Sea King in half with a lightning attack.
• Feng Ye called the Hero Association to report that the crisis in City J had been resolved, while the civilians and Sexy-Fist reacted in shock.
• Speed-o'-Sound Sonic challenged Feng Ye for taking his prey, but Feng Ye dodged his attack and struck him down.
• Sonic retreated into an alley after threatening to defeat Feng Ye someday.
• Genos arrived, saw the Deep Sea King's corpse, and watched Feng Ye vanish in a streak of lightning.

Feng Ye monitored the Divine Tree Pain puppet as it captured monsters and continued to grow, then met Fubuki at a hotel pool in City C. Fubuki challenged his exceptional A-Class promotion, while Feng Ye warned that a disaster would strike the city soon.

• Feng Ye ordered Lilith to capture more monsters, and she returned with over a dozen for Divine Tree Pain to absorb and transform into nourishment.
• Feng Ye estimated that Divine Tree Pain would reach maturity within half a month, then relaxed at a hotel pool in City C.
• A golden-haired woman complimented Feng Ye’s swimming and invited him for a drink, but he said someone was coming to see him.
• Fubuki arrived at the pool, and Feng Ye greeted her as Blizzard of Hell, claiming he had seen her arrival in the future.
• Feng Ye told Fubuki that a disaster would strike the city in about ten minutes, and she accused him of spouting nonsense and fooling the Hero Association into promoting him to A-Class.

Feng Ye demonstrated his overwhelming speed to Fubuki by taking her from the Crown Hotel in City C to its abandoned outskirts, where she realized how powerful he was. The Hero Association informed him that he had risen to A-Class Rank 2 and been named Thunder God, and he took Fubuki back with him.

• Fubuki challenged Feng Ye to prove his strength, and he instantly carried her from the hotel pool to the ruined outskirts of City C.
• Fubuki recognized the abandoned District M and realized Feng Ye had moved them more than fifty kilometers in an instant.
• The Hero Association told Feng Ye that he had risen to A-Class Rank 2 and received the hero name Thunder God.
• Fubuki accepted that Feng Ye was a powerful hero rather than a fraud, and he took her back from the ruins in a flash of lightning.