Chapter Summaries

Divine Ancestor Ginevra reached the asteroid-belt island and used the Arrowhead Plate to revive Melqart, Perseus, and Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku. The three Steel Gods agreed to begin the ritual to revive the Last King, with Son Goku taking the lead.

• Ginevra flew into space and found the island where the true Strongest Steel was embedded.
• Ginevra used the Magic Holy Grail to power the Arrowhead Plate and summon Melqart.
• The Arrowhead Plate also revived Perseus and Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku.
• Ginevra and the three Steel Gods acknowledged their shared mission to revive the Last King.
• Son Goku began presiding over the revival ritual.

The Steel Gods revived the Last King, whose awakening was triggered by circumstances resembling the myth of a hero battling a Demon King like Chen Fan. After the Last King declined to rush into battle, news of his resurrection spread, and Son Goku returned to the Western Heavenly Palace to cause havoc.

• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku used lightning and Words of Power to awaken the God-Saving Divine Blade and summon the Last King.
• Divine Ancestor Ginevra welcomed the Last King and said she had fulfilled her mission.
• Son Goku warned the Last King about Chen Fan, but the Last King said he would handle the threat himself.
• The Last King's resurrection became known throughout the world, and Chen Fan learned that their battle was drawing near.
• The day after hearing the news, Son Goku descended on the Western Heavenly Palace and wreaked havoc in the city again.

Chen Fan and Luo Cuilian went to Nikko City to confront the revived Great Sage Equal to Heaven, where they learned that Perseus and Melqart had also returned. Perseus revealed that the Last King was involved in their revival, leaving Chen Fan facing several former opponents and the prospect of meeting the Last King.

• After the Four Great Families asked for help, Chen Fan left Mount Lu for Nikko City with Luo Cuilian, who wanted to kill the Great Sage Equal to Heaven herself.
• Chen Fan and Luo Cuilian found the city’s people transformed into monkeys and headed for the Western Heavenly Palace, where the Great Sage Equal to Heaven was waiting.
• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven admitted that he had revived because of the Last King and summoned Perseus and Melqart to join the fight.
• Perseus and Melqart appeared and challenged Chen Fan, and Perseus revealed that the Last King had revived as well.

Chen Fan confronted Melqart, Perseus, and Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku, who had challenged him to reclaim their pride and reveal where the Last King’s missing Hero was. Luo Cuilian took on Son Goku while Chen Fan faced Melqart and Perseus, and the battles began with Chen Fan blocking both of their opening attacks.

• Chen Fan learned that the Hero was avoiding his role as savior and that the three gods would only let him seek the Hero after defeating them.
• Chen Fan accepted the challenge, and Melqart and Perseus claimed they could defeat him after recovering and learning from their earlier fights.
• Luo Cuilian challenged Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku, and he flew off to choose a battlefield; Chen Fan let her go fight him.
• Melqart attacked Chen Fan with his weapon while Perseus shot a magically empowered arrow from his Pegasus.
• Chen Fan caught Melqart’s weapon with one hand and pinched Perseus’s arrow with the other as their battle began.

The Last King accepted that he had to manifest and set off toward the battlefield, where Luo Cuilian fought Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku. While she held him at bay, Chen Fan overwhelmed King of The Gods Melqart and Perseus.

• Divine Ancestor Ginevra told the Last King that the battle had begun and that Chen Fan intended to fight him after he awakened.
• The Last King rose from the bench, withering the nearby trees, and walked toward the battlefield as the land died around him.
• Luo Cuilian battled Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku with her golden warriors and swordsmanship, matching his strength.
• Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku created over a hundred clones, but Luo Cuilian destroyed them with wind blades.
• Luo Cuilian's Vajra Warriors caught Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku's enlarged Golden Cudgel, and she counterattacked with her sword.
• Chen Fan's supernatural abilities left King of The Gods Melqart and Perseus unable to threaten him, even together.

Chen Fan battled Melqart and Perseus, overwhelming them despite their combined attacks and planning to defeat them before his domain failed. He used vector manipulation to launch Melqart into Perseus’s path, leaving their fight in disarray.

• Melqart and Perseus attacked Chen Fan together, but his domain deflected their strikes and even sent some of Perseus’s arrows back at him.
• Chen Fan said he would defeat both gods before his defense broke, then charged Melqart while Perseus fired an arrow to slow him.
• Chen Fan split the ground with his power, dodged Melqart’s club, and kicked Melqart’s leg, making him cry out in pain.
• Chen Fan grabbed Melqart’s finger and hurled him toward Perseus, who had to steer Pegasus aside to avoid the flying god.

Chen Fan defeated Melqart and Perseus, then blocked and shattered a powerful golden arrow. The Last King arrived with Divine Ancestor Ginevra as the battle began, while the two defeated gods recovered.

• Chen Fan sent Melqart crashing into the ground, leaving him unable to rise.
• Chen Fan appeared behind Perseus and kicked him and his Pegasus into a crater, seriously injuring them.
• As Chen Fan prepared to kill the two gods, a golden arrow struck his domain and drove him into the ground.
• Chen Fan caught the arrow in his left hand and shattered it, then saw the Last King approaching with Divine Ancestor Ginevra.
• The Last King's presence caused nearby trees to wither into ashes, and Perseus and Melqart recovered enough to sit up.

Chen Fan met the Last King and accepted his challenge to a final battle. The Last King revealed overwhelming divine power and the true form of the God-Saving Divine Blade, while Chen Fan deftly deflected two weapon attacks and prepared to face the countless weapons still hovering overhead.

• The Last King identified Chen Fan as a rare God Slayer who showed compassion toward gods and said he had to fight him.
• Chen Fan agreed to settle things with the Last King, and the Last King began the final battle by invoking Covenant Great Law.
• The Last King's divine power surged to roughly fifteen times that of an ordinary Disobedient God, while Perseus, Melqart, and Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku also gained power.
• The Last King plunged the God-Saving Divine Blade into the ground and summoned a vast formation filled with heavenly divine treasures.
• Two weapons transformed into purple lightning and struck at Chen Fan, who dodged one, seized it, and used it to knock the other aside.
• The Last King praised Chen Fan's fighting skill, while Chen Fan recognized that the Last King was nearly as powerful as Lü Dongbin.

Chen Fan fought the Last King, Melqart, and Perseus while the Covenant Great Law restored and empowered his enemies. He repelled their attacks with overwhelming strength and swordsmanship, but Melqart renewed his assault as the battle continued.

• The Last King warned that Chen Fan's technique was dangerous as purple lightning descended, and Chen Fan charged toward him instead of attacking the magic cube formation.
• Chen Fan deflected four lightning bolts with a divine sword and continued toward the Last King, but Melqart blocked his path.
• Chen Fan struck Melqart's weapon hard enough to crack it and force Melqart back, then cut Perseus's divinely powered arrow apart.
• Chen Fan knocked away eight more lightning bolts, astonishing Divine Ancestor Ginevra, the Last King, and the others with his swordsmanship.
• Melqart attacked Chen Fan again with his enormous weapon.

Chen Fan killed Melqart with his swordsmanship, but Melqart’s power was absorbed by the Last King and strengthened him. The Last King unleashed a torrent of heavenly weapons against Chen Fan, yet he recognized that Chen Fan had survived as the weapon mound began to shake.

• Chen Fan severed Melqart’s arm and weapon, then decapitated him.
• Melqart’s golden radiance flew to the Last King, increasing the power surrounding him.
• The Last King and Perseus acknowledged Chen Fan’s strength as countless weapons gathered to attack him.
• The Last King’s weapon torrent buried Chen Fan beneath a mound of heavenly weapons and Noble Phantasms.
• Ginevra celebrated Chen Fan’s apparent death, but the Last King said he was still alive, and the mound began to tremble.

Chen Fan fought the Last King while Luo Cuilian and Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku joined the battle. The chapter left Luo Cuilian under attack from behind as Chen Fan prepared to intervene.

• Chen Fan and the Last King began their final battle after the Last King accepted his challenge.
• Perseus joined the fight from afar, while the Last King’s heat drained Chen Fan’s psychic power.
• Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku broke away from Luo Cuilian and flew to assist the Last King, with Luo Cuilian pursuing him.
• Chen Fan told Luo Cuilian to deal with Perseus, and she charged at him.
• Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku used Divine Speed to attack Luo Cuilian from behind, and Chen Fan snapped his fingers with killing intent.

Chen Fan and Luo Cuilian defeated Perseus and Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku, leaving only the Last King. After his strength grew from the other Disobedient Gods' deaths, the Last King accepted his destiny and faced Chen Fan, who vowed to defeat him and destroy the God-Saving Divine Blade.

• Chen Fan trapped the Last King in his Sumeru World and joined Luo Cuilian against Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku and Perseus.
• Luo Cuilian killed Perseus with her Vajra Warriors, though their destruction injured her.
• Chen Fan wounded Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Goku repeatedly and then killed him with a slash to the neck.
• The Last King emerged from the Sumeru World after its time limit expired, and Divine Ancestor Ginevra joined him.
• The Last King accepted his destiny and asked Chen Fan to destroy the God-Saving Divine Blade if he defeated him.
• Luo Cuilian withdrew to recover while Chen Fan faced the Last King and promised to end his destiny.

Chen Fan fought the Last King, whose destiny-backed power could no longer restrain Chen Fan after his Godhead transformed. The Last King unleashed the God-Saving Divine Blade’s final strike, and Chen Fan sent his six wings against it.

• Chen Fan activated his transformed Godhead and revealed three pairs of powerful white wings as the Last King prepared to fight.
• Chen Fan and the Last King clashed across the land, with the Last King aided by the world's destiny but unable to gain an advantage.
• The Last King raised the God-Saving Divine Blade for a final strike, and Chen Fan gathered his full strength to meet it.
• The Last King’s blade grew enormous and unleashed a destructive storm that devastated the surrounding area, while Chen Fan remained unharmed.
• Chen Fan deduced that destroying the God-Saving Divine Blade would make the Last King vanish, then sent his six wings against the descending blade.
• Chen Fan’s wings collided with the edge of the God-Saving Divine Blade, shaking the earth.

Chen Fan shattered the God-Saving Divine Blade, freeing the Last King from his fate before leaving that world. In the next world, he fled through a spatial tunnel with a terrifying mountain-sized monster pursuing him.

• Chen Fan's force field cracked the God-Saving Divine Blade as he struggled against the Last King.
• The God-Saving Divine Blade shattered, and the exhausted Chen Fan collapsed into Luo Cuilian's arms as the Last King thanked him and faded away.
• One month later, Chen Fan opened a spatial passage and left the world after settling his affairs.
• Chen Fan sped through a spatial tunnel with damaged wings while a gigantic monster followed close behind him.

Chen Fan was struck by a powerful monster in the endless void and fell through a Black Hole to Earth, where he was hospitalized in a coma. He awakened inside Sword Art Online and realized his body there was made of data.

• A monster pursued Chen Fan through the endless void, shattered his wings and halo, and knocked him into a Black Hole.
• Chen Fan crashed into a city on Earth and was taken to a hospital with severe injuries and no identification.
• Sword Art Online's president supplied Chen Fan with a game account and equipment and paid for two years of his hospitalization.
• The game's system awakened Chen Fan and repeatedly prompted him to name his character.
• Chen Fan opened his eyes in a grand hall, examined himself, and discovered that his body was made of data.

After learning that his real body was severely injured but his godhead and superpowers remained intact, Chen Fan discovered he had entered the virtual reality game Sword Art Online. He created a character using his own name, explored the starting city, and prepared to leave to fight monsters.

• Chen Fan examined his condition and realized his current body was badly damaged, leaving him unable to use his superpowers effectively.
• Chen Fan learned from the system that he was in Sword Art Online and chose to try the game while his body recovered.
• Chen Fan named his character Chen Fan and entered the game’s starting plaza as the newly opened servers welcomed players.
• Chen Fan inspected his menus, equipment, and the city, then decided to leave and see what the monsters were like.

Chen Fan discovered that killing monsters outside the city fed data into his damaged Godhead and could help his body recover. After easily slaughtering Black Wild Boars, he headed toward a higher-level monster area while novice players failed to follow him.

• Chen Fan killed a Black Wild Boar and noticed a faint ripple flow into his Dark Gold Pyramid Godhead when he gained experience.
• Chen Fan killed another Black Wild Boar and confirmed that its data was being absorbed by his Godhead.
• Chen Fan reasoned that killing monsters could help his body recover, then fought five Black Wild Boars at once and defeated them.
• Chen Fan found the experience gain too small and headed toward a higher-level monster area.
• Novice players tried to follow Chen Fan and ask to become his disciples, but respawned Black Wild Boars knocked them back to the city.

Chen Fan hunted Gray Wild Wolves, reached level two, and rested while considering how to restore his Dark Gold Pyramid Godhead. A bell then summoned players to the town plaza, where they discovered their logout buttons had disappeared and waited for an explanation.

• Chen Fan heard rookies at the Resurrection Altar praise his fight against the Black Wild Boars, while rumors spread about a Swordsmanship Master.
• Chen Fan hunted level-two Gray Wild Wolves and judged that they offered the best balance of experience and difficulty.
• Chen Fan reached level two, rested in the grass, and thought about getting his Dark Gold Pyramid Godhead running again.
• A bell rang from town, and Chen Fan was teleported to the central plaza as other players gathered there.
• Players reported that their logout buttons had disappeared, and Chen Fan suspected the incident was not a game bug.

Akihiko Kayaba revealed that Sword Art Online had become a death game, trapping its players inside Aincrad and making clearing all 100 floors their only way out. Chen Fan believed Kayaba was serious as the players faced the reality of the announcement.

• A red warning barcode spread across the sky and formed a giant Game Administrator figure.
• Akihiko Kayaba announced that players could not log out and that removing their NERvGear would kill them.
• Chen Fan suspected Kayaba was telling the truth, while some players dismissed the announcement as a stunt.
• A player and a companion struck an invisible wall when they tried to leave the plaza.
• Akihiko Kayaba said that 312 players had already died, revival would no longer work, and players had to clear Aincrad to escape.
• Akihiko Kayaba explained that players had to defeat each floor boss, including the boss on the 100th floor, to clear the game.

Akihiko Kayaba revealed that Sword Art Online had become a deadly game, and the players learned their real appearances had been restored. As panic spread through the square, Chen Fan left to buy food and find an inn, while some beta testers headed out of town.

• Chen Fan and the other players used the mirrors in their inventories and saw their real-life appearances reflected in the game.
• Akihiko Kayaba explained that he had created Sword Art Online to observe the world, then vanished as the sky returned to normal.
• A fallen mirror sparked panic, and the players shouted for the game to let them out.
• Chen Fan decided not to try calming the crowd and went to buy food before seeking an inn for the night.
• Some closed-beta players left town using a route they knew toward the next town.