Recaps

Chen Shouyi learned that four human warriors had been captured by a huge barbarian tribe protected by the River God. After scouting the tribe and questioning a guard, he returned to the Fluorite Cave and planned to attempt a rescue that night.

• A female warrior told Chen Shouyi that her team had found a huge barbarian tribe and that her companions were missing after the group was discovered.
• Chen Shouyi armed himself, took the female warrior to the tribe, and found signs that the other warriors had been killed or captured.
• Chen Shouyi approached the tribe alone, killed two guards, and captured a third for questioning.
• The barbarian revealed that the tribe served the River God and that Chen Shouyi's companions had been captured.
• Chen Shouyi told the female warrior he would attempt a rescue that night, then ordered her to return because she would hinder him.

Chen Shouyi infiltrated a Barbarian settlement at night, using his control over the air and Shell Girl’s sharp eyes to avoid detection. He entered the settlement and searched for the scent of humans.

• Chen Shouyi waited through the freezing night near the Fluorite Cave, then set out with Shell Girl to attack the Barbarian tribe.
• Chen Shouyi muffled his footsteps with his control over the atmosphere and reached the tribe’s perimeter.
• Chen Shouyi and Shell Girl found and disabled the tribe’s rope-triggered warning devices.
• Chen Shouyi sensed the tribe’s Faith Domain and discovered a spear-filled ditch behind its boulder wall.
• Chen Shouyi leaped over the wall and ditch, then silently searched the settlement for the scent of humans.

Chen Shouyi found the Barbarian tribe’s temple and was pursued by its guardian, the Dark King Lols. After killing Lols and discovering the captured martial artists were dead, Chen Shouyi fought through the Barbarians and fled across the rooftops.

• Chen Shouyi identified a towering stone building as the River God’s temple and sensed the presence of a true god inside.
• The Dark King Lols followed Chen Shouyi from the temple and confronted him near a building where he had detected human scents.
• Chen Shouyi killed Lols with a kick and a sword strike, then killed a Barbarian who emerged nearby.
• Chen Shouyi found two injured martial artists; one had died, and the other died after telling him the others were dead and asking about Song Yanhong.
• Chen Shouyi killed the Barbarians who rushed him, then escaped across the rooftops to avoid risking the River God’s intervention.

Chen Shouyi killed the barbarian priests and chieftain, then fled as a terrifying presence overwhelmed the world. A silver-white Giant Beast tried to confront it but was destroyed, and Chen Shouyi reached the spatial passage as the storm subsided, wondering whether the River God had mistaken the beast for the culprit.

• Chen Shouyi avoided a Divine Technique and shot the old barbarian priest, then killed the burly barbarian beside him.
• Chen Shouyi used his War Bow to kill the other five barbarian priests and the tribe's chieftain, scattering the remaining barbarians.
• Chen Shouyi escaped over the perimeter wall and ran through the forest as the snowfall, thunder, and crushing pressure intensified.
• A silver-white Giant Beast with a serpent's body and two wings flew into the sky, easing the pressure on Chen Shouyi.
• A thunderous strike cut the Giant Beast in two, and its body dissolved into dust as the storm and pressure faded.
• Chen Shouyi reached the spatial passage and wondered if the River God had mistaken the Giant Beast for the real culprit.

After surviving the River God’s divine descent, Chen Shouyi escaped the Otherworld with Shell Girl and returned to Hedong City. He reported the deaths of Song Yanhong’s companions, then went home to tend to Shell Girl and rest.

• Chen Shouyi reflected on his recklessness and the danger of provoking the River God, while Shell Girl clung to him in terror after wetting her skirt.
• Chen Shouyi retrieved his backpack from the fluorite cave and left the Otherworld with Shell Girl hidden in his briefcase.
• Song Yanhong asked Chen Shouyi about her companions, and he told her they had all fallen in the line of duty.
• Chen Shouyi informed a soldier that he needed to see the battalion commander; hours later, he left the locked-down camp as self-propelled guns arrived.
• Chen Shouyi salted the pork he had brought home, washed Shell Girl’s skirt, and read about thought and the soul before falling asleep.

Chen Shouyi searched for a safe Space Channel where he could train and chose a low-risk wasteland near the safe zone. He entered its sandstorm-swept landscape and found shelter among rocky hills, though he considered looking for a better spot the next day.

• Chen Shouyi asked Bai Xiaoling for information on Space Channels and chose a nearby low-risk channel in a wasteland for training.
• Chen Xingyue told Chen Shouyi that her advanced class would soon attend a half-month training camp at the Space Channel near the old campus, and he offered to accompany her.
• Chen Shouyi saw residents near the lower city's Space Channel being evacuated and worried that Hedong might face a disaster like Pingzhou.
• Chen Shouyi entered the selected Space Channel and found himself in a fierce sandstorm among dead trees and the enormous bones of a buried creature.
• Chen Shouyi walked to a range of rocky hills, cleared sand from a sheltered hollow, and decided to make do there for the day.

Chen Shouyi entered a sealed cavern filled with Four-armed Giant corpses and studied murals that appeared to record the Otherworld’s origin and the tribe’s history. The final images suggested that a god destroyed the Four-armed Giants in retaliation for their killing a divine avatar.

• Chen Shouyi broke through the stone door, waited for the dust to clear, and entered the cavern with Little Dot and Shell Girl.
• Chen Shouyi found more than a thousand Four-armed Giant mummies and examined murals depicting a colossal being whose corpse gave rise to strange life-forms, including a towering tree he identified as the World Tree.
• Chen Shouyi saw murals of an apocalyptic war that broke the World Tree, followed by scenes of the Four-armed Giants fighting Giant Beasts across generations.
• Chen Shouyi noticed murals showing Four-armed Giants eating barbarians, a barbarian shrouded in light fighting their champion, and the champion killing the barbarian.
• Chen Shouyi concluded that a god had punished the Four-armed Giants for killing its avatar and may have created the surrounding desert while wiping out the tribe.

Chen Shouyi entered a sealed cavern filled with mummified Four-armed Giants and studied murals recounting the origins of the Otherworld and the tribe’s history. The final murals suggested a god had destroyed the Four-armed Giants in divine punishment, leaving Chen Shouyi unsettled by the gods’ immense power.

• Chen Shouyi broke through the stone door, waited for the dust to settle, and entered the cavern with Shell Girl.
• Chen Shouyi found thousands of dead Four-armed Giants and murals depicting a colossal being, the emergence of strange life, and the World Tree’s destruction in an ancient war.
• Chen Shouyi examined murals recording the Four-armed Giants’ long history of battles and noticed that they showed no signs of worship.
• Chen Shouyi saw murals of Four-armed Giants capturing Little People, a glowing barbarian fighting them, and the giants celebrating after killing him.
• Chen Shouyi inferred that a god had avenged the slain barbarian by destroying the Four-armed Giant tribe and possibly creating the surrounding desert.

Chen Shouyi explored the Four-armed Giants’ cavern and discovered the tribe’s immense store of weapons and corpses, including its chieftain’s dangerous heirloom spear. After leaving the cavern, he encountered desert creatures and roasted a horned lizard.

• Chen Shouyi examined the Four-armed Giants’ crude weapons and found a huge pile of dried barbarians that had been stored as food.
• Chen Shouyi identified a towering corpse as a Four-armed Giants’ chieftain and found its pale silver spear, which struck him with a powerful mental shock when he touched it.
• Chen Shouyi recovered, decided not to try handling the spear again, and left the cavern after exploring for several more minutes.
• Chen Shouyi saw giant shelled creatures and a horned lizard emerge after the sandstorm ended.
• Chen Shouyi skinned and cleaned the lizard, then impaled it on a stick and roasted it over a fire.

Chen Shouyi was called to investigate a mountain village where villagers had gone mad and a supernatural fog trapped soldiers and martial artists. He reached the village with a rescue team and learned that Song Yingjie was among those trapped.

• Chen Shouyi reviewed his improving attributes while Shell Girl admired a red crystal orb, then received an urgent mission call.
• Bai Xiaoling told Chen Shouyi that a villager had murdered his family and himself after reporting a demon, and that fog now trapped people inside the village.
• Chen Shouyi flew to the town government office, where Jin Feiyan explained that she had escaped from the village.
• Chen Shouyi joined Jin Feiyan and others in a truck bound for the village and learned that Song Yingjie was among the trapped martial artists.

Chen Shouyi entered a fog-shrouded village where soldiers had vanished, searching for survivors while encountering a seemingly deranged old woman. He continued deeper into the village after spotting a figure in the fog.

• Chen Shouyi arrived with Jin Feiyan at the sealed-off village and learned that soldiers sent inside had not returned, though people might still be alive.
• Chen Shouyi armed himself and entered the thick fog alone, finding that it interfered with his perception and compass readings.
• Chen Shouyi searched a dark house and found an elderly woman gnawing on a decomposing human arm, but he left her alive after realizing she was still breathing.
• Chen Shouyi called for Song Yingjie and other survivors as he searched the silent village, then spotted a figure ahead and chased after it.

Chen Shouyi searched the fog-shrouded village and rescued several people from the mysterious power distorting their minds. After finding Song Jieying and preparing to lead everyone out, he discovered armed soldiers surrounding the house.

• Chen Shouyi found soldiers and martial artists wandering in confusion, knocking them unconscious or slapping them awake to break the mysterious power’s hold.
• Chen Shouyi met Qian Wei and Zhao Jiankai, who said villagers were acting strangely and that several people had become trapped in the village.
• Chen Shouyi, Qian Wei, and Zhao Jiankai searched the village for the missing martial artists, repeatedly waking one another when the mysterious power affected them.
• Chen Shouyi found Song Jieying hiding in a house and slapped her until she recovered, then said he would get everyone out.
• Chen Shouyi sensed something was wrong and rushed to the doorway, where he saw armed soldiers surrounding the house.

Chen Shouyi led the martial artists through a fog-bound village after controlled soldiers attacked them. As the group neared the edge of the fog, Song Jieying turned on him, and Chen Shouyi spotted a tall shadow watching them.

• Twelve controlled soldiers surrounded Chen Shouyi and the others, but Chen Shouyi deflected their bullets and knocked them unconscious.
• Chen Shouyi redirected a rocket with his will, then led the group through the soldiers and numb villagers to escape the encirclement.
• Qian Wei and Zhao Jiankai heard a grating sound and began acting strangely as the fog weakened Chen Shouyi's perception.
• Song Jieying attacked Chen Shouyi from behind, but he disarmed her and carried her as she struggled.
• As the group neared the edge of the fog, Chen Shouyi noticed a tall shadow silently watching them.

Chen Shouyi escorted Song Yingjie out of the mental fog, then returned to hunt the entity controlling the village. The creature was revealed as a weakened Soul Eater whose power depended on the people it had assimilated, and Chen Shouyi’s rescues were steadily draining its strength.

• Chen Shouyi carried the controlled Song Yingjie out of the fog, and she regained her senses once they reached safety.
• Chen Shouyi told the battalion commander and political instructor that most of the people were alive and that he would try to kill the mysterious monster.
• After resting, Chen Shouyi reentered the fog and searched for the hidden entity, but could not find it.
• When a bullet grazed his ear, Chen Shouyi recalled the old woman and wondered why the monster had kept her alive.
• Chen Shouyi ran toward the village outskirts carrying two soldiers, while a three-meter-tall Soul Eater grew irritated inside the fog.
• The Soul Eater’s history and powers were revealed, including how Chen Shouyi’s rescues were stealing the strength it had built through its mental network.

Chen Shouyi fought the dream-controlling monster Diluoluo, rescuing the people it had controlled and finally killing it with a rapid barrage of arrows. He returned by helicopter, worried that Sun Jin and Dong Siyang might not recover, then went home.

• Chen Shouyi carried twenty soldiers out of the fog and noticed that it shrank as the controlled people were removed.
• Diluoluo confronted Chen Shouyi with mental attacks, but he resisted and beheaded its apparent body with his sword.
• Chen Shouyi pursued Diluoluo through the village and shot it repeatedly, destroying its body and ending the threat.
• Soldiers reached the village, and Chen Shouyi told the battalion commander he was fine despite his pain and exhaustion.
• On the helicopter ride back, Chen Shouyi worried that Sun Jin and Dong Siyang might remain unconscious or suffer lasting harm.
• The helicopter landed in the villa district, and Chen Shouyi said goodbye to the others and headed home.

After surviving a monster’s mental attack, Chen Shouyi discovered that the Faith Power in his Book of Knowledge had been exhausted and planned to contact his followers on the other world. Meanwhile, two investigators arrived in Hedong City to seek help for a dangerous mission into the isolated Donghai Province, where the Barbarian God and Southeast Asian forces were suspected of involvement.

• Chen Shouyi returned home, washed up, and checked the Book of Knowledge, but the World Tree showed no change after the monster’s death.
• Chen Shouyi found that his Faith Power had vanished, realized it had helped resist the monster’s mental attack, and decided to arrange sacrifices among the Barbarian Tribe on Small Island.
• Chen Shouyi tried to contact the Barbarian Tribe’s priest through a Faith Line but stopped when Earth’s weak Primal Force could not support the connection.
• Senior Luo and a young woman arrived at Hedong Railway Station and discussed seeking local support, preferably from a Martial Master, for their mission.
• Senior Luo explained that Donghai Province had become an information black hole after cults, sabotage, and blockades disrupted communications, and that investigators suspected the Barbarian God and Southeast Asian forces were involved.

Chen Shouyi was asked to join a dangerous mission to investigate Donghai Province, which might have fallen. He initially refused, but agreed after Luo Jingwen offered Primordial Divine Marrow as the reward.

• Chen Shouyi sensed that worship on Small Island had produced substantial Faith Power, while his strength reached 17 points.
• Luo Jingwen and an unfamiliar young woman visited Chen Shouyi to request his help with a mission to Donghai Province.
• Chen Shouyi tried to refuse, claiming that a recent battle had injured his mind and left him recovering.
• Luo Jingwen revealed that the mission's reward was Primordial Divine Marrow from a weak-level god killed in Jiqing Province.
• Chen Shouyi accepted the offer and asked when they would leave, while the young woman silently doubted his excuse.

Chen Shouyi left for a mission to investigate conditions in Donghai Province, traveling with Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing. During the journey, Zhu Xueqing met Shell Girl, who was frightened by the group.

• Chen Shouyi reviewed his imbalanced attributes and hoped the mission reward would provide enough Divine Marrow to improve his Intelligence.
• Shell Girl practiced reading animal names from a picture book, and Chen Shouyi patiently taught her about elephants.
• Chen Shouyi quietly left home at midnight and met Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing at the helicopter pad.
• The three flew to Nanshan City, planning to cross the mountains overnight and enter Qujiang City to investigate Donghai Province.
• Zhu Xueqing asked to see Shell Girl, and Chen Shouyi brought her out; Shell Girl trembled and asked him to chase the bad giants away.

Chen Shouyi joined Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing on a mission into Donghai Province, where they discovered a city under the influence of a heretical cult. The group found foreign soldiers patrolling the streets and took shelter in an empty house to wait for daybreak.

• Zhu Xueqing asked Chen Shouyi to give her Shell Girl, but Chen refused and explained that he had escaped a Barbarian God in the Otherworld.
• Chen Shouyi, Luo Jingwen, and Zhu Xueqing flew to Nanshan City and crossed the mountains, fighting off Otherworld Creatures along the way.
• Chen Shouyi sensed a faint Faith Domain near a village, and Luo Jingwen concluded that the area had been infiltrated by a heretical cult.
• The group watched a patrol of undisciplined soldiers, and Luo Jingwen said that many Southeast Asians and people of Chinese descent had entered Donghai Province.
• Luo Jingwen opened an empty house with a wire, and he began telling Chen Shouyi about the Agent Training required of Martial Masters in the past.

Chen Shouyi, Luo Jingwen, and Zhu Xueqing discovered that Qujiang had been dominated by worshippers of the God of Order and left to continue their mission. Luo Jingwen revealed that they were heading to Qinggang City to investigate whether Donghai Province had recovered nuclear warheads from a sunken strategic submarine.

• At dawn, Chen Shouyi watched crowds of Qujiang residents head to church, and Luo Jingwen remarked that the city no longer felt like part of Great Xia Nation.
• Chen Shouyi secretly took three badges from pedestrians so he, Luo Jingwen, and Zhu Xueqing could pass unnoticed.
• The three ate breakfast while hearing locals praise the God of Order and discuss the growing influence of Luzon people in the religious hierarchy.
• After hearing a hymn outside a church, Luo Jingwen concluded that Qujiang had been thoroughly infiltrated and said they should leave.
• Luo Jingwen told Chen Shouyi that they were going to Qinggang City to check whether Donghai Province had obtained nuclear warheads from a submarine that may have sunk nearby.

Chen Shouyi, Luo Jingwen, and Zhu Xueqing investigated Qinggang City, which was under the Church of the God of Order’s control, while searching for clues about a missing nuclear submarine. After learning how to disguise themselves, Chen Shouyi killed four Southeast Asian soldiers and took a more convincing emblem.

• Luo Jingwen told Chen Shouyi that a nuclear submarine had gone missing after leaving Qinggang City, and that its warheads might have fallen into enemy hands.
• The three reached ruined Qinggang City and learned from a young woman that the Church had enslaved dissenters and that the God of Order’s forces had seized the city six months earlier.
• The young woman explained that people’s emblems revealed their rank, so Luo Jingwen proposed they change theirs before scouting the naval port.
• Chen Shouyi overheard four Southeast Asian soldiers discussing their occupation of Donghai Province and killed them after accusing a Chinese-descended soldier of lying about being from Xia.
• Chen Shouyi took the soldier’s emblem, and he and Zhu Xueqing hid the bodies when Luo Jingwen warned that someone was approaching.

Chen Shouyi, Zhu Xueqing, and Luo Jingwen reached the abandoned Naval Port, where they encountered a gigantic winged monster that appeared to serve the Savage God. Luo Jingwen urged the group to leave before the creature noticed them.

• The group traveled toward the Naval Port through a downpour, and Zhu Xueqing learned that Chen Shouyi used his will to keep the rain away.
• Chen Shouyi expanded his will domain to shelter Zhu Xueqing and Luo Jingwen, but both found it oppressive and quickly left it.
• The group found the Naval Port deserted and damaged, with signs that its garrison had been overwhelmed.
• Chen Shouyi spotted savages sheltering in distant buildings, so the group skirted around them and stopped to look at two abandoned destroyers.
• A huge winged monster emerged from the sea and landed at the port; after it looked toward their hiding place and walked away, Luo Jingwen told the group to leave.

After discovering that twenty-one Sea Monsters were searching the seafloor for a strategic nuclear submarine, Luo Jingwen, Zhu Xueqing, and Chen Shouyi decided to confront them rather than retreat. At one in the morning, they set out to attack.

• Luo Jingwen, Zhu Xueqing, and Chen Shouyi watched twelve Sea Monsters return from the ocean and realized they were searching for the nuclear submarine.
• Luo Jingwen ordered Zhu Xueqing to return to the capital with the intelligence, but Zhu Xueqing refused to leave the others behind.
• Chen Shouyi urged the group to kill the monsters, and Luo Jingwen agreed to fight while keeping retreat as a last resort.
• After nine more Sea Monsters returned, the three ate sashimi together and tried to keep their spirits up.
• At one in the morning, Luo Jingwen led Zhu Xueqing and Chen Shouyi out to begin the attack.

Luo Jingwen, Chen Shouyi, and Zhu Xueqing infiltrated a factory to kill sleeping giant monsters, but their covert attack was discovered. As Luo Jingwen fought several monsters alone, Chen Shouyi transformed, and the creatures around Luo Jingwen began to dwindle.

• Luo Jingwen led Chen Shouyi and Zhu Xueqing past the Southeast Asian guards and into the factory, where they found twenty-one sleeping giant monsters and scores of barbarians.
• Chen Shouyi silently killed a barbarian who woke, then he and Luo Jingwen began stabbing the giant monsters while Zhu Xueqing watched the entrance.
• Luo Jingwen and Chen Shouyi killed seven monsters without alerting the rest, but the eighth survived its wound and crashed into a machine tool, waking the factory.
• Luo Jingwen killed one waking monster and urged Chen Shouyi and Zhu Xueqing to escape, then fought off several others as the factory erupted into chaos.
• Chen Shouyi grew rapidly in size, while Luo Jingwen, surrounded by monsters, failed to notice that the creatures around him were gradually being drawn away.

Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen fought the giant monsters and barbarians at the factory, and Chen Shouyi’s strength broke the attackers’ morale. After the survivors fled, he found Zhu Xueqing alive, then realized Giant Transformation had left him completely naked.

• Chen Shouyi fought off the giant monsters surrounding him while Luo Jingwen battled three others.
• Chen Shouyi killed or wounded the fleeing giant monsters, and the remaining monsters and barbarians panicked and fled.
• Luo Jingwen saw the corpses and confirmed Zhu Xueqing was still alive before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Chen Shouyi ended Giant Transformation, checked Zhu Xueqing’s injury, and discovered his clothes had been destroyed.
• Chen Shouyi took clothing from a corpse and wrapped it around his waist.