Chapter Summaries

The Reincarnators detected Heracles descending as Mecal and planned to study the coming battle before seizing an Authority. Xu Yue revealed himself as the seventh God Slayer and provoked Heracles by mentioning Illya, causing the god to unleash far greater power.

• The Reincarnators used a detection item and mental enhancements to observe Heracles's descent and discussed exploiting the fight to learn how to seize Authorities.
• Heracles stopped his club above Xu Yue, Erica, and the collapsed Kusanagi Godou, then struggled against the haze obscuring his perception.
• Xu Yue identified himself as the seventh God Slayer and challenged Heracles, who recognized him as the world's Son of Destiny.
• The Reincarnators dismissed Xu Yue's apparent difference from their intelligence and watched as Heracles laughed and accepted the challenge.
• Xu Yue taunted Heracles by mentioning Illya and his connection to her mother, making Heracles's power surge and his Land of the Twelve Trials appear.

Xu Yue baited Heracles into descending his Twelve Labors Divine Kingdom, then fought and defeated him, absorbing his power and preserving the projection as an Authority seed. He repaired the damage caused by Heracles’s appearance and prepared to return to Dongjing with Kusanagi Godou.

• Heracles realized Xu Yue had baited him, but refused to retreat and challenged him to fight openly.
• Xu Yue and Heracles vanished in a clash, and Xu Yue returned beside Erica after defeating him and absorbing his power.
• Xu Yue preserved the Twelve Labors projection as an Authority seed, then rewound and restored the world to undo the chaos Heracles had caused.
• Xu Yue woke Kusanagi Godou and said they would return to Dongjing together.
• Jiaren regretted that the Reincarnators had waited for a chance to profit instead of confronting the Disobedient God directly.

Xu Yue returned to Dongjing with Kusanagi Godou and Erica, while mysterious interference erased the faces of Xu Yue and Mecal from the Intruders’ memories. Their arrival and the emergence of a seventh God Slayer drew attention from powers around the world.

• Jiaren and the Intruders discovered that their recording could not preserve Xu Yue and Mecal’s faces, and the Veteran Intruder collapsed after looking at it.
• Kusanagi Godou returned to Dongjing with Xu Yue and Erica, and Xu Yue said they would stay at Godou’s home under the alias Wong.
• Kusanagi Shizuka scolded Godou for leaving for Italy without telling her, then met Xu Yue and Erica.
• Organizations across the world reacted to the seventh God Slayer’s appearance, while members of the Five Prisons Holy Cult struggled to remember him clearly.

Xu Yue revealed that he was the seventh God Slayer and that Kusanagi Godou shared some of his traits, while rejecting the Committee for the Compilation of History’s attempts to approach him. Amakasu Touma then persuaded Godou that he could become a God Slayer too, leaving him considering training.

• Xu Yue and Erica introduced themselves as transfer students, and Erica announced that she and Xu Yue were engaged.
• Bani Valley Yuri approached Xu Yue on the Committee for the Compilation of History’s behalf, and he revealed that he was the seventh God Slayer and told her to leave.
• Xu Yue rejected Amakasu Touma’s invitation after school, so Amakasu turned his attention to Kusanagi Godou.
• Amakasu told Godou that he had a portion of a God Slayer’s potential and could become a King by defeating Disobedient Gods and taking their authorities.
• Amakasu urged Godou to train, and Godou began weighing the idea against his past experience training with Billy the Kid.

Xu Yue kept the Gorgon Stone while letting Kusanagi Godou’s fate recover enough to serve his plans, and he noticed Athena watching from Dongjing Tower. Meanwhile, Jiaren’s group prepared to pursue a Disobedient God and deal with the Penguin Merchant Guild, convinced their advantages would secure victory.

• Xu Yue monitored Amakasu Touma’s conversation with Kusanagi Godou and decided to let Touma train him until his fate recovered further.
• Xu Yue spotted Athena on Dongjing Tower and considered using the Gorgon Stone to draw her down, though he kept it beyond her reach.
• Jiaren’s group concluded that a Disobedient God and the Seventh God Slayer were connected to events in Dongjing, and planned to intervene early.
• A ronin reported that the Eye Group had found Penguin Merchant Guild members investigating a Native American ruin in the United States.
• Jiaren resolved to win over powerful God Slayers and use his group’s numbers, resources, and military formations to defeat their rivals.

A concealed Reincarnator spotted Kusanagi Godou training and alerted his allies, prompting Amakasu Touma to warn Godou that enemies were coming. The Reincarnators surrounded the park and sealed it with a barrier, leaving Godou and Touma trapped before their attack.

• A stealth-skilled Reincarnator watched Kusanagi Godou train and reported his presence to his allies.
• Amakasu Touma detected the intercepted call and told Kusanagi Godou that someone was watching him and seeking reinforcements.
• Amakasu Touma explained that Godou had become a powerful figure and prepared him for possible combat.
• The Reincarnators rapidly assembled a force of three Intruders and several dozen others around the park.
• The Reincarnators activated a modified Four Violet Flames Formation, isolating the park and sealing it off from the outside.

Amakasu Touma watched as three Intruders captured Kusanagi Godou, whose unusual resistances and indecision kept him from escaping. The captors failed to extract information with their usual methods, and Nakayama Shion’s question prompted Godou to blurt out an embarrassing confession before Barton approached him.

• Three Intruders overcame Kusanagi Godou’s resistance by physically restraining and binding him, then carried him away as Amakasu Touma contacted the committee.
• Xu Yue, eating lunch with Kusanagi Shizuka, decided that Godou should endure more hardship so he would grow stronger.
• Qingchuan and Jiaren learned that their supernatural interrogation attempts had failed because Godou’s magic resistance was exceptionally high.
• Nakayama Shion tried to question Godou, but her control technique only briefly affected him.
• When Shion asked how she could enter his heart, Kusanagi Godou blurted out that he wanted to kiss her, and Barton then emerged from the darkness.

Bani Valley Yuri told Xu Yue that Kusanagi Godou had been kidnapped, but the Committee had lost the trail. The Reincarnators learned Godou’s identity and planned to kill him, until Athena arrived and they trapped her in a barrier.

• Bani Valley Yuri told Xu Yue that Kusanagi Godou had been taken, but she had no leads beyond an intercepted phone call.
• Xu Yue declined to investigate without further information, and he reassured Kusanagi Shizuka that her brother was taking extra lessons.
• Barton revealed that Kusanagi Godou was the Seventh God Slayer and had part of a God Slayer’s Authorities.
• Prince Yoshihito ordered Barton to kill Kusanagi Godou after the Reincarnators learned his identity.
• Athena appeared and asked to take Kusanagi Godou, but Prince Yoshihito trapped her in a barrier and ordered her subjugation.

Athena overwhelmed Jiaren’s forces by revealing her divine nature, leaving most of them unconscious or subdued. Xu Yue then descended in his divine body, stunning Athena as she sensed the Deva Path’s reward mission.

• Xu Yue watched Athena’s battle from the void and judged that a Will Descent was enough for the moment.
• Jiaren realized that his forces had failed to stop Athena, who effortlessly countered their attacks and items.
• Athena invoked her divine aura and words, crushing the mortals’ minds and forcing most of the fighters to collapse or kneel.
• Jiaren recognized Athena as the real goddess, while Qingchuan, Shion, and Inoue Ieyasu remained conscious.
• A radiant figure descended from the heavens, causing Jiaren to faint and Athena to suffer from the revelation of his mystery.
• Athena recognized Xu Yue and sensed the Deva Path’s reward mission, leaving her dumbfounded.

Xu Yue tried to turn Athena into an ally after she refused to descend more power, but she dissipated her Spiritual Sense before he could persuade her. He then strengthened the unconscious Kusanagi Godou and prepared him to face the Reincarnators again.

• Athena weighed the reward and decided not to descend more power or pursue Xu Yue.
• Xu Yue sealed Athena’s return and tried to win her over by revealing that he knew memories from the upper realm could carry karma.
• Athena’s Spiritual Sense dissipated after she said goodbye to Xu Yue, and he concluded that his attempt to gain her friendship had failed.
• Xu Yue inspected the unconscious Reincarnators and Kusanagi Godou, then infused Godou with the world’s power to strengthen his Authority.
• Xu Yue set a goal for Kusanagi Godou to become strong enough for the Reincarnators to use their military formation against him next time.

Jiaren’s team decided to kill Kusanagi Godou with a military formation before he could expose them, while Xu Yue and Athena left to fight over the World-Ending Serpent. The attack never began: a flaming white horse appeared and destroyed the Intruders and Elite Reincarnators, leaving everyone stunned.

• Jiaren and his aides decided that an Iaijutsu military formation was needed to silence Kusanagi Godou before he could reveal their actions.
• Jiaren assigned the three Intruders who had captured Kusanagi Godou and several Elite Reincarnators to carry out the attack.
• Athena asked Xu Yue to return the World-Ending Serpent, but Xu Yue refused and the two went to a nearby field to fight.
• Kusanagi Godou tried to follow Xu Yue, but the three Intruders blocked his way.
• A white horse wreathed in solar flames descended and turned the Intruders and Elite Reincarnators to dust before they could activate their formation.

Kusanagi Godou’s Authority devastated the battlefield, but the Reincarnators captured and killed him after Xu Yue intervened to save him from their first attack. Xu Yue then offered to revive Godou without his recent memories, leaving Jiaren relieved that Godou would not expose what had happened.

• Kusanagi Godou used his Authority to vaporize his enemy and create a vast crater, then celebrated his strength.
• The Reincarnators used an Iaijutsu military formation to cut Godou in half, but Xu Yue’s Golden Sword stopped their next strike from beheading him.
• Qingchuan identified Xu Yue’s intervention as an Authority, and Jiaren authorized a stronger military formation to silence Godou.
• The military formation crushed Godou into powder, while Athena’s Death Spirit Speech failed to kill Xu Yue and she teleported away.
• Jiaren pretended to mourn Godou and planned to use the death to approach Xu Yue, but Xu Yue said he could revive Godou without his recent memories.

After Kusanagi Godou woke with his memories partly erased, Jiaren and Amakasu Touma both tried to win his favor and draw closer to Xu Yue. The group then turned to the threat of Athena and the Gorgon Stone, with Jiaren offering his team’s help sealing it.

• Xu Yue told Kusanagi Godou that a dark organization had killed him and that he had revived him with his Authority; Jiaren claimed his group had rescued Godou.
• Jiaren introduced the Disobedient God Buster to Godou, while his team secretly discussed using Godou to gain access to Xu Yue.
• Amakasu Touma arrived with the police, thanked Xu Yue for saving Godou, and sized up Jiaren and his companions as potential rivals.
• Godou recounted the supposed rescue, and Jiaren and Amakasu Touma exchanged wary handshakes as both sought to curry favor.
• Amakasu Touma identified Athena and the Gorgon Stone as the next crisis and proposed sealing the stone with shrine maidens; Jiaren offered his team’s sealing expertise.

Xu Yue handed the Gorgon Stone to Jiaren, who secretly decided to claim its power instead of sealing it, while the committee strengthened its efforts to recruit Kusanagi Godou and support Xu Yue. Marquis Voban and Luo Hao arrived in Japan, where Luo Hao encountered the powerful Chen Zhen and learned he was already loyal to someone.

• Xu Yue gave Jiaren the Gorgon Stone, and Jiaren resolved to study how to make its divine power his own rather than seal it.
• Amakasu Touma continued guiding Kusanagi Godou toward the committee, while Bani Valley Yuri regularly spent time with Xu Yue.
• Marquis Voban arrived at Dongjing Airport, determined not to let another God Slayer take the Disobedient God he intended to summon.
• Luo Hao arrived at Dongjing Harbor to investigate Xu Yue, the new God Slayer formerly connected to her cult.
• Luo Hao sensed Chen Zhen's formidable strength and asked him to become her subordinate, but Chen Zhen said he was already loyal to someone.
• Luo Hao concluded that Chen Zhen might serve the Seventh God Slayer and became interested in meeting him.

Luo Hao visited Chen Zhen and revealed interest in the person he served, while Xu Yue asked the Reincarnators to find an enemy who had arrived in Dongjing. Jiaren sent his people to search using portraits of Luo Hao and Marquis Voban and decided the core members would confront the target themselves, with military formations as a backup.

• Luo Hao left Chen Zhen after saying she was interested in the person he served, and Chen Zhen called Uchiha Itachi to report her visit.
• Jiaren learned the Penguin Merchant Guild had sealed a Disobedient God and urged his group to remain confident in their advantage.
• Kusanagi Godou delivered Xu Yue's request for the Reincarnators to find an enemy hostile to him in Dongjing and passed along portraits of Marquis Voban and Luo Hao.
• The Reincarnators copied the portraits and dispatched their subordinates to search for the two God Slayers.
• Inoue Ieyasu, Qingchuan, and Nakayama Shion advised Jiaren to prepare a military formation as backup, and Jiaren decided the core members would strike first if they found the target.

Luo Hao exposed and wounded a Reincarnator ambush at a temple fair, then confronted Jiaren and his group. Jiaren tried to challenge her, but she swiftly broke his arms and legs, leaving him incapacitated.

• Luo Hao detected the Reincarnators tracking her and pierced the shoulders of more than a dozen of them with a bamboo skewer.
• Jiaren learned that the woman at the temple fair was Luo Hao, the Holy Master of the Five Prisons Holy Cult and an ancient God Slayer.
• Qingchuan persuaded Jiaren that defeating Luo Hao could earn them fortune and challenge rewards, so Jiaren decided to confront her.
• Jiaren descended before Luo Hao and asked her to grant him guidance.
• Luo Hao broke Jiaren's arms and legs and tossed him to the ground.

Luo Hao confronted Jiaren and his Reincarnator allies, but Jiaren used a defensive military formation to gain overwhelming power and withstand her strongest attacks. Luo Hao realized she might not be able to defeat him, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Luo Hao defeated the Reincarnators with one move and pinned Jiaren beneath her foot, while her sense of danger steadily intensified.
• Jiaren escaped using a life-saving paper effigy, then joined Qingchuan as the Reincarnators formed a military formation around him.
• The formation empowered Jiaren beyond even the aura of gods, and he attacked Luo Hao with golden divine radiance.
• Luo Hao protected herself with the Great Vajra Divine Skill and struck Jiaren with her Twelve Divine Phoenix Palm Strikes, but his golden armor remained intact.
• Luo Hao unleashed Dragon's Roar, Tiger's Howl through a Vajra Warrior, but Jiaren endured the attack without harm.
• Luo Hao judged that her uncontrolled Authorities might still fail to defeat Jiaren and worried about the destruction they could cause.

Jiaren and his allies decided to capture Luo Hao and present her to the Seventh God Slayer, believing she would become the Son of Destiny’s beloved. Their battle devastated Japan as Luo Hao fought Jiaren’s military formation to a standstill, and Jiaren prepared to draw on more power.

• Jiaren hesitated after realizing Luo Hao could resist his military formation, but Qingchuan persuaded him that capturing her could earn favor with the Son of Destiny.
• Jiaren agreed to continue fighting and try to capture Luo Hao so they could present her as a valuable captive.
• The battle between Luo Hao and Jiaren’s military formation shook Dongjing and Japan, sending the combatants out over the Pacific and generating enormous aftershocks.
• Luo Hao darkened the sky with The Heavens Are Dead and fought with growing skill, while Jiaren’s defensive formation drained energy without taking damage.
• A thousand-meter tsunami formed as the battle tore through the atmosphere, and Jiaren withdrew before preparing to take the next step his junior brother had suggested.

A world-threatening tsunami formed as two powerful beings battled across the Pacific, prompting supernatural organizations to mobilize. Xu Yue joined Japan’s response and recognized Lord God’s connection to Susanoo, while the battle’s cause remained unknown.

• Satellite images revealed a tsunami over a thousand meters high, and the battle’s shockwaves devastated parts of Japan.
• Bani Valley Yuri asked Xu Yue for help, and Xu Yue set out with Erica and Kusanagi Godou.
• Marquis Voban agreed to help contain the disaster, while Liliana Kranichar assisted him.
• Lord God declined to summon a powerful figure who might worsen the crisis and joined the response effort instead.
• Marquis Voban and Lord God discussed stopping the tsunami and finding the source of the battle.
• Xu Yue recognized that Lord God’s Authorities were connected to Susanoo and privately noted their shared origin.

Susanoo questioned Xu Yue after discovering that the Seventh God Slayer’s destiny had changed, while a thousand-meter tsunami threatened the coast. Marquis Voban tried to stop it, but Susanoo flattened the wave with a mirror and then pressed Xu Yue for answers.

• Susanoo sensed that Xu Yue was the genuine Seventh God Slayer, but found that Kusanagi Godou’s destiny had been overshadowed by Xu Yue’s.
• Kusanagi Godou asked Xu Yue if he could help, then froze when he saw the approaching thousand-meter tsunami.
• Marquis Voban flew toward the tsunami and used his weather powers to press down its surface, but seawater began flooding the coast.
• Susanoo tossed out a mirror and calmed the sea, flattening the colossal wave without a ripple.
• Susanoo used his overwhelming power to demand that Xu Yue explain what had happened.