Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng spent three weeks cultivating in seclusion, strengthening his body, battle qi, and divine sense, but found that his new cultivation path demanded a much firmer foundation before he could advance. He left the Cultivation Room before Fang Lingxue's birthday and tested his strength at the training area, where Jiang Wenjue showed off his punching force.

• Qin Heng raised the Cultivation Room's gravity and energy assistance, then cultivated for weeks as his physique, battle qi, and Soul of Life grew stronger.
• Qin Heng realized his strength had increased without the transformation needed for a breakthrough, and his new cultivation art was rebuilding his foundation.
• Qin Heng noticed his emotions fading during long seclusions and decided he needed to balance cultivation with time outside.
• On December 9, Qin Heng left the Cultivation Room, used his divine sense and Battle Domain to teleport to a neighboring training area, and surprised Jiang Wenjue and two students.
• Jiang Wenjue tested his punching force at 82,249 kilograms with Python Mountain Force and 167,283 kilograms with Thousand Jun Breaker, and Qin Heng called him too weak.

Qin Heng demonstrated overwhelming physical strength to Jiang Wenjue, then left the Martial Hall and arranged to return to Nansha. Xu Qian revealed that nearby Beast Gods had learned Martial God Zhang Daoping had been gone for two months, leaving Qin Heng alarmed by the danger.

• Qin Heng struck a strength-testing machine first with Python Mountain Force and then with Thousand Jun Breaker, reaching readings of 191022KG and 387009KG.
• Jiang Wenjue accepted that Qin Heng was far beyond him, while Qin Heng concealed the full extent and source of his strength.
• Qin Heng teleported away using his Battle Domain and reflected that he could now defeat powerful opponents such as the Golden Monkey King and Ji Lingyun.
• Qin Heng cleaned up and called Xu Qian to arrange a flight back to Nansha, where he had something to handle the next day.
• Xu Qian told Qin Heng that nearby Beast Gods had learned Martial God Zhang Daoping had been away for two months, and Qin Heng recognized the threat as grave.

Qin Heng learned that a Level 1 beast tide was gathering near Central Plains Base City and arranged to return for the battle after going home. Back in Nansha, he surprised Fang Lingxue at school ahead of her eighteenth birthday and promised to spend the day with her like husband and wife.

• Xu Qian told Qin Heng that two Beast Gods threatened Central Plains Base City, but a Level 1 beast tide was not expected to arrive before the morning after tomorrow.
• Qin Heng agreed to return to Central Plains Base City for the battle and flew back to Nansha by fighter jet.
• Qin Heng decided to prepare a special birthday surprise for Fang Lingxue and told his parents he would spend the night away.
• Qin Heng waited outside Nansha No. 3 Middle School and surprised Fang Lingxue when she left class; her classmate recognized him as the world’s Number One Genius martial artist.
• Qin Heng drove away with Fang Lingxue and reassured her that he had not forgotten her birthday, promising they would spend the day together like husband and wife.

After three weeks in seclusion, Qin Heng returned to Fang Lingxue and took her to a surprise home he had bought for them. Fang Lingxue was stunned by the villa, car, and bank card he gave her.

• Qin Heng reunited with Fang Lingxue and explained that he had spent three weeks in seclusion after changing cultivation techniques.
• Qin Heng kept their destination secret while Fang Lingxue told him about her life at school during the weeks they had been apart.
• Qin Heng brought Fang Lingxue to Heavenly Spring Estate and revealed that he had bought a home for them.
• Fang Lingxue discovered that their new home was a villa and worried that Qin Heng had spent too much money.
• Qin Heng gave Fang Lingxue the house keys, a car, and his supplementary bank card, leaving her overwhelmed by his gifts.

Qin Heng and Fang Lingxue moved into their newly purchased mansion and spent the evening together. Before her birthday, Fang Lingxue asked Qin Heng to get a marriage certificate with her the next day, hoping to become part of his family.

• Fang Lingxue initially tried to return the mansion keys and deed, but Qin Heng persuaded her to keep the house for their future.
• Qin Heng carried Fang Lingxue into the new mansion, where they reunited after a month apart.
• Afterward, Qin Heng asked Fang Lingxue what she wanted for her birthday, and she requested a marriage certificate.
• Fang Lingxue explained that she wanted to share Qin Heng's household register and become a family, and Qin Heng promised they would build a happy family together.

After marrying Fang Lingxue, Qin Heng spent a happy day with her and promised to return safely before leaving for the approaching beast tide in Central Plains Base City. He flew there at dawn, eager to join the battle before it was over.

• Qin Heng and Fang Lingxue registered their marriage, celebrated with his parents, and spent the day visiting places together.
• Qin Heng told Fang Lingxue he would leave the next morning to fight a near-Disaster Grade beast tide in the Central Plains, and she asked him to come home safely.
• Qin Heng learned that more than five million Monsters, including hundreds of Beast Kings and distant Beast Gods, were approaching Central Plains Base City.
• Qin Heng boarded a fighter jet and headed for Central Plains, worried he would arrive too late to take part in the battle.

Qin Heng arrived at Central Plains Base City’s No. 6 Pass as human forces prepared for battle, while the Azure Sheep God and Three-Headed Wolf God weighed their concerns about a mysterious human expert and the Lord of All Beasts. The Three-Headed Wolf God ordered millions of Monsters to attack, and the disciplined beast horde charged toward the city.

• Qin Heng reached No. 6 Pass, where Xu Qian warned him to protect himself during the coming battle.
• The Azure Sheep God and Three-Headed Wolf God discussed the mysterious expert, the Lord of All Beasts, and their plan to conserve their strength.
• The Azure Sheep God revealed that coastal Beast Kings had reported the Lord of All Beasts had become a High-level Beast King.
• The Three-Headed Wolf God declared that the beast clan would fight humans and the Lord of All Beasts, then sent the order to attack.
• Millions of Monsters charged toward Central Plains Base City in coordinated formations, attacking from multiple directions.

A massive Level 1 Beast Tide attacked Central Plains Base City, and Commander Peng Xuan coordinated the city's defense as the Rocket Army bombarded the horde. After heavy nuclear strikes weakened the monsters, Qin Heng moved toward the front line, eager to fight and earn enough merit to surpass Wang Jianming.

• Peng Xuan ordered the troops to attack as the beast horde approached the Border Wall.
• The Rocket Army launched thirty-two Nuclear Bombs, killing or injuring nearly 1.5 million monsters and reducing the number of Beast Kings.
• Beast Kings shielded their subordinates from later nuclear strikes, while artillery and missiles targeted the monsters nearing the city.
• Qin Heng asked Xu Qian about the bombardment's effect, then prepared to join the close combat as the Grandmasters readied for battle.
• Qin Heng headed toward the front line, hoping the battle would earn him enough merit to surpass Wang Jianming.

Qin Heng charged into the beast tide and slaughtered Monsters before three Beast Kings targeted him. He killed all three with his Battle Domain, then resolved to hunt High-level Beast Kings to close the merit-point gap with Wang Jianming.

• Qin Heng leaped from the Border Wall and cut through the beast tide, killing hundreds of Monsters with his spear.
• Three Beast Kings left their fight with a human Grandmaster and attacked Qin Heng.
• Qin Heng activated Absolute Space, dodged the Beast Kings, and wounded the Black Tiger Beast King and Magic Leopard Beast King.
• Qin Heng killed all three Beast Kings, earning fifteen thousand merit points.
• Qin Heng calculated that he needed to hunt High-level Beast Kings to catch up to Wang Jianming's 1.16 million merit points.

Qin Heng ambushed and killed Beast Kings during the Border Wall battle, including the wounded High-level Beast King Purple-Faced Fox King. The Three-Headed Wolf God and Azure Sheep God then invaded his Sea of Consciousness and decided to have his Soul of Life erased.

• Qin Heng used the chaos of the battle to ambush and kill Beast Kings, reaching nine kills by noon.
• A powerful divine sense watched Qin Heng, and he moved closer to allied Grandmasters while remaining alert.
• After Xu Qian knocked the wounded Purple-Faced Fox King from the sky, Qin Heng used his techniques and spear to kill it.
• The divine sense tightened around Qin Heng, trapping him in a prison of divine sense as the Three-Headed Wolf God and Azure Sheep God appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Beast Gods discussed Qin Heng's strength and ordered that his Soul of Life be erased.

Qin Heng survived an attack by two Beast Gods when the Ice Flame Saint Child protected his Soul of Life and revealed that its recovered power could drive them back. The Beast Gods recognized the hidden presence within Qin Heng and decided they could not avoid fighting, while Qin Heng recovered and returned to slaughtering Monsters.

• The Ice Flame Saint Child blocked the Three-Headed Wolf God's divine-sense attack and drove both Beast God phantoms from Qin Heng's Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child told Qin Heng its origin had recovered enough to frighten or repel the two Beast Gods, though it warned that helping too often would drain it.
• Qin Heng rested beneath the Purple-Faced Fox King's corpse, recovered with the Ice Flame Saint Child concealing him from nearby Monsters, and then returned to battle using only his physical strength.
• Xu Qian noticed Qin Heng cultivating beside the dead Purple-Faced Fox King and decided to watch over him.
• The Three-Headed Wolf God and Azure Sheep God realized a powerful being was residing inside Qin Heng and concluded they had to risk fighting him despite humanity's ultimate weapons.

Two Beast Gods arrived at the Western Border Battlefield and demanded Qin Heng in exchange for withdrawing their forces and promising three years of peace. Peng Xuan rallied the humans to refuse, and Qin Heng rose to confront the Beast Gods, revealing a surge of power.

• The Azure Sheep God and Three-Headed Wolf God arrived, bringing the fighting to a halt with their overwhelming auras.
• Xu Qian asked whether the Beast Gods had come for a decisive battle, and the Azure Sheep God said the outcome depended on the humans’ abilities.
• Three-Headed Wolf God offered to withdraw and guarantee three years of peace if the humans handed over Qin Heng.
• Xu Qian struggled to choose while Qin Heng watched to see whether he would be sacrificed.
• Peng Xuan declared that warriors would not retreat, negotiate, or compromise, and the humans rallied to fight.
• The Azure Sheep God forced Qin Heng to choose between dying alone and letting everyone die with him; Qin Heng rose into the sky as his eyes turned to fire and ice.

Qin Heng used the Ice Flame Saint Child’s power to fight the two Beast Gods and learned to draw on Law Runes. He sent a pair of ice and fire dragons after them as they prepared to attack with full force.

• Qin Heng flew into the air, challenged the Three-Headed Wolf God and the other Beast God, and struck first with his spear.
• Qin Heng’s spear clashed with the Three-Headed Wolf God’s claw, showing the watching humans that he could contend with a Beast God.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child explained that Qin Heng was wielding Mortal Shedding Realm power through his Source Power.
• Qin Heng ignored the Three-Headed Wolf God’s Chaotic Will and conjured an ice python and a fire python to attack the Beast Gods.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child taught Qin Heng about the Frost and Flame Law Runes, then returned control of the body to him.
• Qin Heng drew an ice rune and a fire rune, created twin dragons, and sent them charging at the enraged Beast Gods.

Qin Heng used the Ice Flame Saint Child’s power to injure the Three-Headed Wolf God and hold off two Beast Gods with ice-and-fire techniques. As the Beast Gods closed in, he unleashed the seventh move of the World Extinction Ninefold Calamity, though he was unsure whether he had mastered it.

• Qin Heng separated the ice and fire runes with spatial power and injured the Three-Headed Wolf God with a spear strike.
• The Three-Headed Wolf God and Azure Sheep God teamed up, but Qin Heng evaded their attacks and froze the Blood Mist.
• Qin Heng unleashed the Raging Waves and Gale techniques, forcing both Beast Gods to defend against his attacks.
• The Azure Sheep God and Three-Headed Wolf God tried to overwhelm Qin Heng in close combat, so he teleported away from them.
• The two Beast Gods pursued Qin Heng, and he unleashed Heaven! Collapse!, the seventh move of the World Extinction Ninefold Calamity.

Qin Heng used Skyfall to tear open the sky’s material image and badly wound the Three-Headed Wolf God and Azure Sheep God, while learning about the Dark Dimension from the Ice Flame Saint Child. The Beast Gods suspected Qin Heng was the returned Goddess of War, then fled to preserve their strength, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Qin Heng’s Skyfall opened a breach that exposed the Dark Dimension and tore at the Three-Headed Wolf God and Azure Sheep God, leaving both badly wounded.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child explained that the breach revealed the Dark Dimension and told Qin Heng about its Law Protozoans and dangers.
• The Beast Gods and human experts wondered whether Qin Heng was the Goddess of War, but Qin Heng denied it and demanded they continue fighting.
• The Azure Sheep God convinced the Three-Headed Wolf God to retreat and seek help from other Beast Gods and the Lord of All Beasts.
• The wounded Beast Gods fled west at top speed before Qin Heng could attack again.

Qin Heng drove back the two Beast Gods and helped the human forces turn the retreating beast tide into a slaughter. After using the borrowed power to kill many Beast Kings, he returned to the Border Wall as the power faded and considered how to replenish Ice Flame Saint Child’s origin.

• Qin Heng let the fleeing Beast Gods escape, then watched the beast army retreat as Peng Xuan ordered an annihilation operation.
• Qin Heng secretly told Xu Qian that his Martial God-level strength was temporary, then charged after the retreating monsters.
• Qin Heng killed numerous Beast Kings and High-level Beast Kings before Ice Flame Saint Child told him to return.
• Qin Heng returned to the Border Wall and learned Ice Flame Saint Child wanted treasures to replenish the origin it had spent.
• The military reported more than two million beast casualties and over 140 dead or wounded Beast Kings and High-level Beast Kings.

After his stunning performance in battle, Qin Heng agreed to meet leaders of the major organizations and recovered while speaking with the Ice Flame Saint Child. He learned why the Saint Child could not seize his body and heard of the cosmic realms beyond Earth.

• Qin Heng agreed to meet leaders from the Martial Warrior Alliance, Heavenly Dao Martial Hall, the military, and other organizations over dinner at the Heavenly Dao Martial Hall headquarters.
• Qin Heng recovered with the Moon Gold Crystal and asked the Ice Flame Saint Child whether it could control or seize his body.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child explained that its ice-and-fire Soul of Life was incompatible with Qin Heng's spatial-attribute body and that it planned to refine a new body from cosmic treasures.
• Qin Heng and the Ice Flame Saint Child agreed to help each other, with Qin Heng offering to seek ice-fire treasures and the Saint Child promising help against threats.
• The Ice Flame Saint Child described the Chaos Sea, while Qin Heng reflected on Earth’s place in the Cosmic Frontier Wasteland and the path toward the Nine Great God Kingdoms.

After recovering from his battle, Qin Heng discovered that news of his achievements had made him a global celebrity and placed him nineteenth on the Global Merit List. He headed to meet the leaders of Central Plains, who welcomed him as a Martial God despite his efforts to explain that his power had been temporary.

• Qin Heng found Martial Hall students treating him with extreme reverence and learned that news had dubbed him the Martial God.
• Chen Yu called Qin Heng to ask about the reports that he had defeated two Beast Gods and risen to nineteenth in the world on the Global Merit List.
• Qin Heng told Chen Yu that his extraordinary power had been temporary and that he had killed only a dozen or so Beast Kings with his normal strength.
• Qin Heng ignored Han Liang's call and went to the Eight Directions Building to explain the situation to the leaders of various organizations.
• Ge Qun and other Grandmasters welcomed Qin Heng as a Martial God, and Qin Heng asked Xu Qian why he had not corrected them.

After Xu Qian urged Qin Heng to let the public believe he was a Martial God, Qin Heng explained to the leaders that his victory came from an oddity treasure and accepted their support as a future Martial God. The leaders promised to gather resources for his cultivation, leaving Qin Heng poised to benefit from their hopes while concealing the true source of his strength.

• Xu Qian privately urged Qin Heng to accept the Martial God title temporarily to inspire the public, and Qin Heng insisted that the organizations' leaders should know the truth.
• At the banquet, Qin Heng told the leaders he was not a Martial God, and Xu Qian explained that a temporary oddity treasure had given him power before vanishing.
• Qin Heng explained that the Ice-Fire Oddity had become foundations within his body and claimed that ice- and fire-attribute treasures could further improve his potential.
• Ge Qun urged Qin Heng to pursue the Martial God Realm, while Gu Xinmin asked what resources he needed.
• Qin Heng requested ice-, fire-, and space-attribute treasures, and Hong Qianfeng promised that the organizations would supply them without asking for repayment.

After being publicly hailed as the Qin Heng Martial God, Qin Heng accepted gifts of Ice Fire Attribute Treasures from organizations across the city while waiting for Martial God Zhang to return with the Star Shatterer Spear. He discussed the power and burdens of higher realms with Ice Flame Saint Child, and ended the night already content with his life.

• Qin Heng accepted the title of Qin Heng Martial God and agreed to return to Nansha after obtaining the Star Shatterer Spear.
• Qin Heng learned that Martial God Zhang was returning from Moon Core World and would reach Earth in about five days.
• Martial Warrior Alliance, MS Alliance, and other organizations delivered Ice Fire Attribute Treasures to Qin Heng.
• Qin Heng reflected that he could accept the gifts because he would eventually become a Martial God and could use them to help Ice Flame Saint Child recover.
• Qin Heng and Ice Flame Saint Child discussed the power of Star Lords and the increased burdens of becoming Eternal.