Recaps

After the group escaped the factory battle, Luo Jingwen decided to get Zhu Xueqing and the intelligence out of Donghai while the cult tightened its control. Chen Shouyi used his mind power to stop bullets as they fought through checkpoints, and the group reached the mountains near the provincial border before dawn.

• Chen Shouyi found Shell Girl hiding in a postbox and comforted her after she showed him the mosquitoes she had squashed.
• Luo Jingwen arranged for Zhu Xueqing to carry the intelligence out, and Chen Shouyi agreed to help escort her.
• Chen Shouyi stopped a storm of bullets with his mind power, then killed the twelve Southeast Asians at a checkpoint.
• Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen took turns clearing checkpoints and killed three giant monsters that swooped down on them.
• The group reached the mountainous border region near dawn, and Luo Jingwen warned Zhu Xueqing to stay hidden and avoid contacting the military in Nanshan City.

Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen returned to Qujiang City, where a demigod searched for the invading Alien Race and they realized the God of Order likely had a powerful ally. They went undercover among the cultists and entered a church for evening prayers.

• Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen slipped out of the village, avoided patrolling soldiers, and returned to Qujiang City, which was under lockdown.
• After discovering Luo Jingwen had lost his wallet, the two left a restaurant and sensed a terrifying presence overhead as they walked through the city.
• A naked, green-haired woman with purple eyes searched the city from above; Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen pretended to chat casually until her aura disappeared.
• Luo Jingwen identified the woman as a demigod and told Chen Shouyi that Great Xia had already defeated six demigods, then agreed the God of Order had likely recruited this one.
• At evening prayers, Chen Shouyi stole two cultists' Divine Emblems, and he and Luo Jingwen exchanged them for their warrior Divine Emblems before entering a church with the crowd.

Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen attended a church service in Qujiang City while hiding from the God of Order’s followers. After the priest announced that Saye was hunting them and claimed Zhu Xueqing had been captured, the two considered their options, and Chen Shouyi hinted that he had a plan.

• Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen entered the church using Divine Emblems, while soldiers beat and dragged away a couple whose emblems were missing.
• The pair knelt and joined the congregation’s prayer as the church’s Faith Power pressed heavily on Chen Shouyi.
• A priest announced that Saye had arrived in Qujiang City, that Zhu Xueqing had been captured, and that the evening prayer would be extended to two hours.
• Back at their lodgings, Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen suspected the capture was a trap but recognized they needed to verify the intelligence or pass it on.
• Luo Jingwen proposed leaving the next day while Chen Shouyi stayed behind, but Chen Shouyi told him he had an idea.

Chen Shouyi entered his memory world and attacked a church to seize a message about captured Great Xia agents and a search of the city. As he questioned the messenger, a towering naked woman arrived, bringing the threat of Lord Saye close.

• Chen Shouyi told Luo Jingwen about his ability to enter realistic memories, and they cleaned their hideout together.
• Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen caught and roasted a rooster for dinner.
• Chen Shouyi entered the church memory and violently attacked the cultists, while Luo Jingwen urged him to flee.
• Chen Shouyi took a note ordering an extended prayer service and a citywide search, and claiming three Great Xia agents had been captured.
• Chen Shouyi questioned the messenger about the note, but the man said he knew nothing.
• A towering naked woman entered the church as an oppressive aura spread.

In a virtual memory world, Chen Shouyi tried to make the demigod Saye reveal whether she had set a trap, but she attacked and killed him. He woke on Earth, concluded that demigods were terrifyingly powerful, and practiced the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening in the occupied zone.

• Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen argued over who would face Saye, then Chen Shouyi realized they were in a virtual memory world and stopped fearing death.
• Chen Shouyi taunted Saye about the God of Order and claimed that many demigods and true gods had died on Earth, making her hesitate.
• Chen Shouyi falsely claimed their companion had been with them all along, then admitted he had lied after Saye revealed she meant to use them to find her.
• Saye attacked Chen Shouyi, and after three devastating strikes, she killed him in the virtual memory world.
• Chen Shouyi woke on Earth, reflected on Saye's strength, and practiced the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening beneath the red moon.

Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen hid in Donghai Province while waiting for the cult threat to subside, then saw military planes overhead and realized war had begun. Luo Jingwen urged them to flee immediately as gunfire sounded in the distance.

• Chen Shouyi told Luo Jingwen that the cult had staged Zhu Xueqing's supposed capture, and Luo Jingwen was relieved to hear it.
• Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen kept a low profile for several days, then decided to avoid the provincial capital and wait before leaving Donghai Province.
• Chen Shouyi trained and checked his Status Panel, noting small increases in his attributes.
• Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen saw a formation of military planes, and Luo Jingwen said they had to leave at once.
• Chen Shouyi packed Shell Girl into his briefcase as distant machine-gun fire signaled that the war had begun.

Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen fled as Great Xia Nation attacked the cult-occupied city, while Chen Shouyi killed a priest on the way. After a female demigod fought the fighter jets and was badly wounded, she pursued them, and Chen Shouyi stopped inside an alley.

• Great Xia Nation's fighter jets bombed the city as cultists and soldiers panicked in the streets.
• Chen Shouyi killed the priest with a quick sword strike while he and Luo Jingwen hurried away.
• A female demigod shot down three fighter jets but drew heavy fire as Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen fled.
• The fighter jets struck the demigod, and she crashed into the street with serious injuries.
• The wounded demigod ran toward Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen, who rushed into a narrow alley before Chen Shouyi stopped.

Chen Shouyi attacked the wounded female demigod while Luo Jingwen carried Shell Girl’s briefcase to safety. After a brutal fight weakened her further, Chen Shouyi and Luo Jingwen brought her down, and Chen Shouyi killed her with a sword through the temple.

• Chen Shouyi gave Luo Jingwen the briefcase and chose to ambush the injured female demigod instead of fleeing.
• Chen Shouyi disarmed the female demigod and fought her through a building as her wounds steadily weakened her.
• Chen Shouyi tackled the female demigod and held her down while Luo Jingwen stabbed her neck with his sword.
• The female demigod briefly regained strength, but Chen Shouyi restrained her and drove the sword through her temple.

Chen Shouyi killed a badly wounded female demigod but suffered a severe injury and barely escaped the area with Luo Jingwen as the air force bombed it. After checking on Shell Girl, they continued toward the mountains on the border between the provinces.

• Chen Shouyi beheaded the female demigod, then collapsed as divine blood gushed from her body.
• Luo Jingwen supported Chen Shouyi and found him clothes, while Chen Shouyi discovered that his groin had been badly injured.
• Luo Jingwen warned Chen Shouyi that the area was being bombed, and they fled as thermobaric bombs destroyed the building they had left.
• Luo Jingwen promised to report Chen Shouyi's achievement, and Chen Shouyi asked about the reward and how long it would take.
• Chen Shouyi checked on Shell Girl inside his briefcase, rested briefly with Luo Jingwen, and continued toward the mountains at the provincial border.

Chen Shouyi checked the curse left by the dead god and saw the World Tree absorbing it as he and Luo Jingwen returned to the military command center with intelligence from Donghai Province. After Chen Shouyi explained how he killed the demigod, the commander arranged for a helicopter to take them home.

• Chen Shouyi entered the Book of Knowledge and found the space overwhelmed by the dead god's curse, but the World Tree was steadily absorbing the black mist.
• Luo Jingwen brought Chen Shouyi game, and the two reached Nanshan City, where soldiers escorted them to the Combat Military Region's command center.
• Luo Jingwen reported their findings from Qujiang City and said Chen Shouyi had killed the demigod.
• Chen Shouyi told the commander that he had cut off the demigod's head and credited the air force for weakening her first.
• The commander promised the military would recognize Chen Shouyi's credit and sent him and Luo Jingwen home by helicopter.
• Luo Jingwen advised Chen Shouyi not to be modest about major accomplishments, and Chen Shouyi resolved to remember the lesson.

After returning home from his mission, Chen Shouyi rested and discovered that his Status Panel now displayed Faith Value, which let him temporarily accelerate his thoughts through the Book of Knowledge. He tested the ability, but it consumed all his Faith Value almost immediately.

• Chen Shouyi returned home, reassured his parents that his mission had been easy, and learned that Xingyue was away training in the other world.
• Chen Shouyi took Shell Girl home, comforted her after her painful journey, and helped her bathe before going to sleep.
• After waking the next morning, Chen Shouyi saw Faith Value listed on his Status Panel and learned that it measured power from his believers' prayers.
• Chen Shouyi spent his Faith Value to borrow the Book of Knowledge's abilities, briefly experiencing greatly accelerated thought.
• Chen Shouyi checked the Status Panel and found that his Faith Value had all been consumed.

Chen Shouyi explored the Book of Knowledge’s transformed space, shaved his head, and took a day off in the safety zone. He reunited with Song Tingting, who told him she had entered Jiangnan University and passed the Martial Apprentice assessment.

• Chen Shouyi realized he had spent all his Faith Value and resolved to save it for a crisis.
• Chen Shouyi inspected the enlarged World Tree and more realistic space in the Book of Knowledge.
• Chen Shouyi shaved his grown-out hair and went out to relax in the safety zone.
• Chen Shouyi ran into Song Tingting and learned that she and her family had moved into the safety zone.
• Song Tingting introduced Wang Xiaojuan, then told Chen Shouyi she was attending Jiangnan University and had passed the Martial Apprentice assessment.

Great Xia Nation sent a bomber formation to Southeast Asia to use a nuclear strike against the God of Order and open a second front. The bomb struck a city where barbarians and humans lived together, swallowing a praying barbarian and the plaza in brilliant light.

• A bomber formation took off from a military base in the capital, carrying a nuclear weapon toward Southeast Asia to draw the God of Order's attention away from Donghai Province.
• The crew spotted a drifting Type 053C guided-missile destroyer and marked its position for a report if they returned safely.
• The aircraft reached the target city, where a barbarian and a Southeast Asian human guide walked past humans praying beneath a Divine Statue.
• A shrill whistle sounded overhead, and the barbarian looked up to see a black object plunging toward the plaza.
• The nuclear blast engulfed the barbarian and the plaza in brilliant light.

Song Tingting gushed over Chen Shouyi while he calculated how quickly his Faith Value could accumulate and decided to test his superhuman state in the memory virtual world. The test ended when the state faded after he caught a bullet, leaving him exhilarated but dissatisfied with how briefly it lasted.

• Song Tingting defended Chen Shouyi and confessed she wanted to touch his bald head, while Wang Xiaojuan sighed at her infatuation.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel, saw his Faith Value had reached 0.05, and estimated how much his believers could provide.
• Chen Shouyi entered the memory virtual world to test his superhuman state while Shell Girl stayed behind reading an illustrated book.
• Chen Shouyi leaped through the villa district, experienced the world slowing around him, and caught a bullet between his fingers.
• The superhuman state faded, and Chen Shouyi took several bullets without injury before complaining that the experience had been too short.

Chen Shouyi met with Qin Liuyuan, who had become a Quasi-Martial Master after finding divine blood in Donghai Province. They discussed the unexpectedly easy military campaign and the absent Barbarian God, while Chen Shouyi felt reassured by his growing strength and Faith Value.

• Chen Shouyi returned home and found Qin Liuyuan waiting to take him out for drinks.
• Qin Liuyuan revealed that he had obtained divine blood from a demigod’s corpse in Donghai Province and used it to become a Quasi-Martial Master.
• Qin Liuyuan told Chen Shouyi that the military had reclaimed much of Donghai Province with little resistance, though the Barbarian God had not appeared.
• After Qin Liuyuan left, Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and saw that his attributes and Faith Value had increased.

The provincial governor decided not to withhold the capital’s invitation for Chen Shouyi to receive a reward for killing a demigod, and assigned Zhang Miaomiao and Zhao Ding to accompany him. After training through the winter, Chen learned the group would leave for the capital that night.

• The provincial governor decided Chen Shouyi must go to the capital and chose Zhang Miaomiao to accompany him and guard against poaching.
• Chen Shouyi trained in the freezing desert, ate hot meat soup, and pulled Shell Girl out of the sleet when she tried to eat it.
• Chen Shouyi returned home and met Zhang Miaomiao and Zhao Ding, who had come to accompany him to the capital.
• Zhang Miaomiao told Chen Shouyi that a formal letter summoned him to claim a reward for killing a demigod.
• Chen Shouyi asked when they would leave, and Zhang Miaomiao said they would take the ten o’clock train that night.

Chen Shouyi left home for a government trip to the capital, accompanied by Bai Xiaoling, Zhang Miaomiao, and Zhao Ding. After boarding a train, he settled into his private compartment with Shell Girl, who marveled at the enormous moving train.

• Chen Shouyi left his parents and rode with Bai Xiaoling, Zhang Miaomiao, and Zhao Ding to the train station in a luxury sedan.
• Zhang Miaomiao interviewed Chen Shouyi about killing a demigod, and he described waiting in hiding before cutting off her head with one sword strike.
• The group boarded an old steam locomotive after it arrived late, with Chen Shouyi assigned a private sleeper compartment.
• Chen Shouyi let Shell Girl out of his briefcase, made her honey, and explained that they were traveling on a train.

Chen Shouyi traveled to the capital after killing a demigod, while Bai Xiaoling proudly told fellow passengers about his strength. After arriving, he met officials who arranged his Martial Master certification and a commendation ceremony, and he asked directly when he could collect his reward.

• Zhang Miaomiao asked Bai Xiaoling whether Chen Shouyi usually avoided socializing, and Bai Xiaoling explained that he spent his days training.
• Bai Xiaoling told fellow passengers that Chen Shouyi was a Martial Master who had killed a demigod, shocking a Great Martial Artist in their carriage.
• Chen Shouyi intimidated the Great Martial Artist with a glance, then endured Shell Girl's endless questions as the train passed war-scarred towns and ruins.
• After two nights and a day of travel, Chen Shouyi, Bai Xiaoling, and Zhang Miaomiao arrived in the capital and met Sun Jianhua and Qian Feiyan.
• Zhang Miaomiao insisted Chen Shouyi should rest at the hotel, and Chen Shouyi asked Sun Jianhua when he could collect his reward.
• Sun Jianhua said the commendation ceremony would take place in two days and suggested Chen Shouyi complete his national Martial Master certification the next day; Chen Shouyi agreed to go to the hotel first.

Chen Shouyi arrived in the capital and settled into a luxurious guesthouse, where he relaxed and checked his growing strength. After Shell Girl complained about leaving the train, he set out to buy her more clothes, disguising his purpose as shopping for a Barbie doll.

• Chen Shouyi and Sun Jianhua rode through the quiet, heavily guarded capital before Sun Jianhua took Chen Shouyi to a luxurious guesthouse near the Martial Arts General Bureau.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and found his strength had reached 17.3 points, then let Shell Girl out of his briefcase.
• Shell Girl cried because the train ride had ended, and Chen Shouyi promised she could ride again in three days.
• Zhang Miaomiao invited Chen Shouyi to go shopping, but he declined before remembering that Shell Girl needed new clothes.
• Chen Shouyi left the guesthouse with Shell Girl hidden in his briefcase and asked an attendant where to buy a Barbie doll.
• The attendant offered to have a doll brought to Chen Shouyi, but he insisted on going out himself and left with directions.

Wang Lie and other martial masters gathered at the Martial Arts General Bureau to inspect Chen Shouyi, whose demigod-slaying feat they doubted. Chen Shouyi read news of a successful integrated circuit breakthrough, while the chapter left his examination still ahead.

• Wang Lie argued with his wife over their daughter's martial arts training before leaving home.
• Wang Lie arrived at the martial master examination center and joined other masters who had come to assess Chen Shouyi.
• Chen Shouyi woke to find Shell Girl still sorting the hundreds of outfits he had bought for her.
• Chen Shouyi read that the Capital Electronics Research Institute had developed its first integrated circuit and anticipated humanity's return to the Information Age.

Chen Shouyi took his Martial Artist examination before a crowd of skeptical Martial Artists, intending to prove his strength without using Supergod mode. His strength test impressed the observers, and his astonishing speed shattered their assumptions as the examination continued.

• Chen Shouyi arrived at the Martial Arts General Bureau with Sun Jianhua, Bai Xiaoling, and Zhang Miaomiao, learning that many Martial Artists had come to watch his examination.
• Zhu Xueqing and Lu Shouhu greeted Chen Shouyi at the examination site, where the gathered Martial Artists watched him enter the hall.
• Chen Shouyi completed the strength test by bench-pressing two tons with perfect form, leaving the observers silent.
• Chen Shouyi ran 300 meters in 2.1 seconds, shocking the crowd by exceeding the accepted limit for human running speed.

Chen Shouyi passed the martial artist assessment after excelling at the reaction-speed test but failing the archery events, which left him embarrassed despite his near-peak strength. His companions comforted him, while the watching martial artists grew resentful of the attention he received from women.

• Chen Shouyi blocked most of the rubber bullets in the reaction-speed test, letting only twenty-five through and earning praise from the spectators.
• Chen Shouyi scored just twenty-eight rings on the stationary archery test, and the Martial Arts Notary announced that he had failed the event.
• Bai Xiaoling defended Chen Shouyi after Wang Lie and Old Hu mocked his archery, prompting the two martial artists to retreat awkwardly.
• Chen Shouyi hit only 32.5 percent of the moving targets, but the examiners let him continue and declared that he had passed overall.
• Zhang Miaomiao, Bai Xiaoling, and Zhu Xueqing comforted Chen Shouyi, while the other martial artists watched with jealousy and resentment.

Chen Shouyi attended a national commendation ceremony for killing a demigod and received a medal and fifty merit points. He began reviewing the supplies available for exchange, eager to decide what to claim.

• Chen Shouyi received his nationally certified Martial Master certificate and learned from Sun Jianhua that Wang Lie was one of the capital’s four top Martial Masters.
• Chen Shouyi prepared for the ceremony, then traveled alone to the Great Hall of the People the next morning.
• Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing greeted Chen Shouyi at the awards hall, and the host praised martial artists’ resistance to the other world.
• Chen Shouyi received a red certificate and medal from an elderly official, who praised him and advised him to practice his archery.
• A staff member told Chen Shouyi that his demigod kill and the God Corpse earned him fifty merit points, then gave him a list of supplies available for exchange.

Chen Shouyi reviewed the government’s merit-point exchange list and spent his 50 points on Divine Marrow. He arranged to receive his delayed mission reward as well and asked the employee to find unusually stretchy underwear.

• Chen Shouyi found that the Divine Marrow, Divine Blood, warrior swords, and other treasures on the exchange list cost more merit points than he could afford.
• Chen Shouyi asked whether the government would buy back his sword, but the employee explained that weapons could only be sold through appraisal for money, not merit points.
• Chen Shouyi chose one vial of Divine Marrow of Lesser Divine Power and two vials of Divine Marrow of Weak Divine Power.
• The employee confirmed that Chen Shouyi’s delayed Donghai Province reward, another vial of Weak Divine Power Divine Marrow, would be delivered that night.
• Chen Shouyi asked the employee to find underwear with elastic that could stretch several times its length without breaking.

After receiving the God Slayer Medal, Chen Shouyi showed Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing that he could wield Sword Qi while maintaining unified mind and spirit, then explained his improved Entering Tranquility to Refine the Self. Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing left eager to practice, while Chen Shouyi hoped martial masters might learn the method and help strengthen humanity.

• Zhu Xueqing admired Chen Shouyi's God Slayer Medal and told Luo Jingwen about his poor archery assessment.
• At dinner, Chen Shouyi floated the dishes while explaining how he could remain calm and focused as he spoke.
• At Luo Jingwen's request, Chen Shouyi used Sword Qi to cut a floating wine bottle without spilling its wine.
• Chen Shouyi described his improved Entering Tranquility to Refine the Self and explained that mastering it depended heavily on talent.
• Luo Jingwen asked for Chen Shouyi's address so he could seek guidance, and he and Zhu Xueqing hurried off to practice.