Recaps

Chen Shouyi endured the divine curse of the demigod he had killed and discovered that the World Tree had transformed the Book of Knowledge’s space. He left the chapter wondering whether the new space was real.

• Chen Shouyi concluded that the demigod’s curse was stronger because he was in the other world, where it could manifest at full strength.
• Chen Shouyi entered the Book of Knowledge and found the space trembling, its ground gone, and the World Tree’s roots exposed as it absorbed the curses.
• Chen Shouyi practiced swordsmanship through the night while Shell Girl licked the demigod meat, and the curse’s effects finally ended by morning.
• Chen Shouyi returned to the Book of Knowledge and found that the space had become tiny yet seemingly endless, with the World Tree appearing more lifelike.
• Chen Shouyi wondered whether the transformed space was real.

Chen Shouyi discovered that he could store objects in the Book of Knowledge’s space but could not place living creatures inside. Meanwhile, the island tribes’ Faith Domain vanished, and the Eternal Sun’s corpse was hurled before them as a terrifying giant approached.

• Chen Shouyi tested his new ability by making a sword disappear into the Book of Knowledge’s space and reappear in his hand.
• Chen Shouyi failed to store living animals until after they had died, and he wondered whether their resistance or souls prevented it.
• The island tribes held sacrifices after the Eternal Sun’s Faith Domain disappeared, leaving them afraid of the dangers that might now attack them.
• A massive object crashed near the largest tribe, and the barbarians recognized it as the Eternal Sun’s corpse.
• A terrifying giant emerged from the forest and appeared before the island tribes.

After building his following in the Otherworld, Chen Shouyi returned to Hedong and learned he had been recognized as a Legendary powerhouse alongside three others. He spent his merit points on a Lucky Gemstone and Divine Marrow, and learned that his new War Bow was ready.

• Chen Shouyi spent four more days in the Otherworld, raising his followers to sixty thousand before returning to Hedong with a large demigod corpse in his spatial storage.
• Chen Shouyi reunited with his parents, who told him the city government was rebuilding their destroyed restaurant and compensating residents for war damage.
• Zhang Miaomiao told Chen Shouyi that the State Office had called for him, so he contacted Sun Xueming to learn he had received three hundred merit points and the title of Legendary powerhouse.
• Sun Xueming told Chen Shouyi that Ye Zong, Zhu Anyu, and Li Wenwu were the other three Legendary powerhouses.
• Chen Shouyi redeemed a Lucky Gemstone and fifteen bottles of demigod-level Divine Marrow, then learned his five-thousand-pound War Bow would be delivered with them.

Chen Shouyi welcomed Hedong’s new mayor and received an honorary professorship, then discovered he could fly without using Air Lock. He ended the chapter hovering near his bedroom ceiling as Shell Girl watched in annoyance.

• Chen Shouyi learned that a five-thousand-pound War Bow was being prepared for him and welcomed Hedong’s new mayor, Huang Huanwen, who brought him tea.
• Bai Xiaoling delivered Chen Shouyi’s honorary professor certificate and invited him to lecture at Jiangnan University; Chen agreed to speak after the New Year.
• Chen Shouyi opened his window as snow fell and found that he could manipulate gravity well enough to lift himself into the air.
• Shell Girl startled at the noise, hid under the covers, and then returned to licking Demigod Meat while Chen Shouyi rose toward the ceiling.

Chen Shouyi explored his growing willpower, exchanged his old War Bow for new equipment, and tested the new bow in the Otherworld. The bow proved powerful enough to blast a deep crater into a mountain.

• Chen Shouyi discovered that his willpower could lift him and pulverize small objects, and he wondered how it related to divine power.
• Chen Shouyi returned his old War Bow to the officers and received a new War Bow and Lucky Gemstone.
• Chen Shouyi inspected the new bow, felt its powerful draw, and hung the gemstone around his neck.
• In the Otherworld, Chen Shouyi saw that his strength had risen to 18.3 and his Faith Value had reached 50.5.
• Chen Shouyi tested the new War Bow by firing a quiver of arrows, blasting a crater five meters deep into a mountain.

Chen Shouyi tested the Lucky Gemstone’s effect on his archery, then searched Hollow Mountain for a weapon suited to his Giant Transformation. He found a massive, unusually durable iron rod and stored it in the Book of Knowledge, then came across a dangerous-looking silver spear.

• Chen Shouyi hit the center of his target repeatedly with every arrow, even while running, and decided the target was too large to test his skill.
• Chen Shouyi asked Shell Girl to throw stones into the air so he could practice shooting moving targets, and she kept helping until exhaustion forced him to stop.
• Chen Shouyi realized his Giant Transformation required a giant weapon and entered Hollow Mountain to search among the Four-armed Giants’ weapons.
• Chen Shouyi tested several spears with his sword, then found a five- or six-meter black iron rod that barely scratched and weighed about two and a half tons.
• Chen Shouyi stored the iron rod in the Book of Knowledge and found a pale-silver spear that crackled with electricity, making him stop before approaching.

Chen Shouyi failed to tame the Four-armed Giant's legacy spear with words, but covered it in beast hides and stored it in the Book of Knowledge. As Hedong slowly recovered from the war, he met Song Yingjie at the market and noticed her scar without asking how she had been injured.

• Chen Shouyi tried touching the spear again and was struck by its mental shock, then attempted to reason with it.
• After the spear rejected his words and shocked him again, Chen Shouyi wrapped it in beast hides, lifted it as a giant, and stored it in the Book of Knowledge.
• More than ten days later, Hedong remained devastated by the war, while Chen Shouyi's attributes continued to rise from eating Demigod Meat.
• Chen Shouyi's parents sent him and Chen Xingyue to the farmers' market for New Year provisions, where he stayed behind to watch their tricycle.
• Song Yingjie arrived with her mother, and Chen Shouyi noticed the scar on her face but did not ask about her injury.

Chen Shouyi showed his sister Chen Xingyue the terrifying aura of a Legend, then visited the heavy machinery factory to inspect the crude embryo of his giant sword. The factory expected the sword to take about another month and a half to finish.

• Chen Shouyi learned that the crude embryo was finished and told Chen Xingyue he had commissioned something from a heavy machinery factory.
• Chen Shouyi released his aura to show Chen Xingyue what a Legend was like, leaving her briefly terrified before she recovered.
• Chen Shouyi rode to the Jiangnan First Heavy Machinery Factory after lunch and met Director Zhao.
• Director Zhao explained that the factory had used its 50,000-ton forging press to shape Chen Shouyi's metal into a crude embryo.
• Chen Shouyi said he would wield the sword himself and approved making it five or six hundred kilograms; Director Zhao estimated it would take another month and a half.

Chen Shouyi spent Faith Value to advance his Giant Battle Body and discovered that its transformation reduced his Agility less than before. After a mysterious foreigner calling himself the Guide lured him away from the safe zone, he offered Chen Shouyi a chance to become a god and defended his organization’s radical beliefs.

• Chen Shouyi spent 200 Faith Value and raised his Giant Battle Body progress to 2.05%.
• Chen Shouyi tested his transformation in the virtual memory world and found that his Agility dropped by only 0.5 points.
• Chen Shouyi considered how advanced innate abilities could undergo a qualitative change, then a fast-moving stranger shattered his window with a pebble.
• Chen Shouyi pursued the stranger beyond the safe zone and confronted him on a rooftop, where the man called himself the Guide.
• The Guide asked Chen Shouyi whether he wanted to become a god and argued that only gods could stand against gods.

Chen Shouyi rejected the Myriad Gods Society's offer to help him become a god and attacked its mysterious representative for endangering his family. He spared the man after warning him and the Society to stay away from Hedong and Great Xia.

• The mysterious man described humanity's worsening war against the Tam World and invited Chen Shouyi to join the Myriad Gods Society.
• Chen Shouyi refused the offer, then turned back and attacked the mysterious man for smashing his home's window.
• Chen Shouyi overwhelmed the mysterious man in a fight and seized him by the throat.
• Chen Shouyi spared the man, threatened the Society and Anderson, and claimed he had already killed three demigods.
• The mysterious man apologized, promised to keep the Society away from Hedong and Great Xia, and decided to leave that night.
• Chen Shouyi walked through the air and disappeared into the distance.

After confronting the Myriad Gods Society Legend, Chen Shouyi realized he could learn to control his own legendary energy by studying the man’s body in the memory world. He practiced through the night and managed to strike the desk with an energy-wreathed palm, leaving a small dent.

• Chen Shouyi returned home, worried about humanity’s worsening situation, and considered why he had spared the Myriad Gods Society Legend.
• Chen Shouyi recalled the strange vibrations in his opponent’s legendary energy and suspected the energy could be actively controlled.
• Chen Shouyi entered the memory world and experienced the Myriad Gods Society Legend’s body during their fight, observing how the man made his energy vibrate to strengthen himself.
• Chen Shouyi left the memory world and practiced moving his own energy for hours as dawn approached.
• Chen Shouyi struck his desk with an energy-wreathed palm and left a small dent in the wood.

Chen Shouyi discovered that Explosive Force boosted all his physical attributes and shared the technique with the Great Xia Nation, earning merit points toward a Soul Pearl. During Spring Festival, he received visitors and learned that his upcoming martial arts lecture had drawn wide attention.

• Chen Shouyi tested Explosive Force, found it increased his attributes by five percent, and saw it appear on his skill list.
• After watching the city for five days to ensure the Myriad Gods Society’s legendary had fled, Chen Shouyi submitted a report on Explosive Force through Bai Xiaoling and received one hundred merit points.
• Chen Shouyi decided to save his merit points until he could exchange them for a Soul Pearl.
• During Spring Festival, Chen Shouyi welcomed many visitors, including Qin Liuyuan and the newly promoted Martial Master Luo Peibin.
• Qin Liuyuan told Chen Shouyi that his planned lecture at Jiangnan University had caused a stir, and Luo Peibin praised him as a legendary powerhouse.

Chen Shouyi advanced his Explosive Force practice while Shell Girl worried that she resembled a bee. At Jiangnan University, visitors gathered for a lecture by Chen Shouyi, and Qin Liuyuan told Luo Peibin about Chen’s rise and his killing of a demigod.

• Chen Shouyi practiced Explosive Force as Shell Girl compared his buzzing punches to a bee and then grew distressed that she might resemble one too.
• Chen Shouyi reassured Shell Girl that she was a little person like him, though she continued to worry about being a bee.
• On the Sunday after the Spring Festival, visitors from across the region arrived at Jiangnan University for a lecture by a legendary powerhouse.
• Qin Liuyuan told Luo Peibin how Chen Shouyi had advanced from Great Martial Artist to legendary powerhouse while Qin remained far behind.
• Qin Liuyuan revealed that Chen Shouyi had killed the demigod vicious bird during the God of Hunting war, then headed with Luo Peibin toward the crowded auditorium.

Chen Shouyi hurriedly improvised a speech before addressing a packed auditorium of martial artists and students. He began by joking about the crowd and promised to share his martial arts experiences, while Zhou Xue recognized him in shock.

• Chen Shouyi struggled to write a speech until he gave up, changed clothes, and left with Chen Xingyue.
• A huge crowd gathered at Jiangnan University for Chen Shouyi's speech, with Zhou Xue and her classmates securing seats.
• Zhou Xue recognized the famous expert as the Chen Shouyi she already knew when he entered the auditorium.
• Chen Shouyi greeted the audience, joked about their reasons for attending, and began his speech on his martial arts experiences.

Chen Shouyi revealed that he had revised the Thirty-Six Body Tempering Forms and Entering Tranquility to Refine the Self by using the power of the mind, demonstrating its abilities to a stunned audience. After his speech, people gathered to study the new cultivation method, while Zhou Xue watched him leave and regretted how she had treated him.

• Chen Shouyi explained that the existing Thirty-Six Body Tempering Forms were insufficient for humanity's needs and claimed he had revised them along with Entering Tranquility to Refine the Self.
• Chen Shouyi named the mysterious power the power of the mind and demonstrated it by making objects fly and levitating himself.
• Chen Shouyi described how focused cultivation could harness the power of the mind, impressing Song Tingting and the audience.
• After Chen Shouyi's two-hour speech, the crowd pressed attendees for details about the new cultivation method.
• Chen Shouyi spotted Zhou Xue and nodded as he left, and Zhou Xue regretted her past arrogance.
• Zhou Xue and her roommate discussed the memorized techniques and joined others in studying the new cultivation method.

Chen Shouyi’s modified Thirty-Six Body Tempering Forms spread after his speech, prompting the provincial government to investigate and drawing widespread interest. His rising public influence sharply increased his Faith Value, while he returned home and discussed the method with Chen Xingyue.

• A provincial meeting was interrupted by news that Chen Shouyi had revealed a more effective cultivation method.
• Officials watched footage of Chen Shouyi performing the modified Thirty-Six Body Tempering Forms, and Professor Wang judged it plausible as the government ordered urgent research.
• Chen Xingyue asked why Chen Shouyi had not taught her the method, and he promised five bottles of Divine Marrow if she mastered Entering Tranquility to Refine the Self.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and noticed that his Faith Value had begun rising faster after his speech.
• As news spread through Hedong and surrounding cities, Chen Shouyi’s Faith Value surged past six hundred, and he anticipated that the excitement might eventually fade.

Chen Shouyi hosted a delegation of leading martial arts researchers from the capital, who questioned him about his revised cultivation methods. He explained what he could, while the researchers left convinced that his techniques could make nationwide martial arts possible if they learned to control the subconscious.

• Shell Girl read a children's book while Chen Shouyi practiced, having made no progress in his attributes for half a month.
• Chen Xingyue told Chen Shouyi that Zhang Miaomiao and several visitors had come to see him.
• Zhang Miaomiao introduced Xu Yuanchun and other leading martial arts and scientific researchers to Chen Shouyi.
• Li Qinghua asked how Chen Shouyi could remain aware while controlling his conscious and subconscious mind, and Chen Shouyi attributed the ability to talent.
• Chen Shouyi answered the visitors' questions and demonstrated techniques, leaving them impressed by the completeness of his revised Thirty-Six Body Tempering Forms.

Chen Shouyi used 27.01 energy to optimize Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening, producing a terrifying cultivation method that forced his body to confront the fear of death. After practicing it through the night, he found it greatly increased his will and improved his flight speed, though it exhausted him before he could complete a cycle.

• Chen Shouyi waited until his energy reached 27.01, then optimized Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening for the fourth time.
• In the dream, Chen Shouyi repeatedly practiced the forms until the technique transformed and filled him with the terror of imminent death.
• Chen Shouyi tried the new technique and had to stop at the fifteenth form when fear and exhaustion overwhelmed him.
• Chen Shouyi ate Demigod Meat and resumed practicing, but even by dawn he had not completed one full cycle.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and discovered that his will had increased by 0.2 despite little change to his physical attributes.
• Chen Shouyi tested his improved will by flying and found that his speed had more than doubled.

Chen Shouyi tested his new ability to fly, then endured days of brutal training to master the Thirty-Six Body Tempering Forms. After completing the final form, he absorbed a surge of Primal Force and saw his attributes rise again.

• Chen Shouyi launched himself into the sky and flew above the clouds until exhaustion, while Shell Girl praised him.
• Chen Shouyi struggled with the terrifying Body Tempering practice and realized his willpower was not yet strong enough.
• On the third day, Chen Shouyi reached the thirtieth form, and his attributes began to rise despite his failure to complete a full set.
• On the fifth day, Chen Shouyi endured all thirty-six forms, triggering a surge of Primal Force that healed his body.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and found that his Strength, Agility, Constitution, Intelligence, and Will had increased.

Chen Shouyi discovered that the optimized cultivation method had increased his intelligence and used Faith Value to improve Giant Battle Body, then set out to cultivate in seclusion in the other world. A violent sandstorm trapped him and Shell Girl inside a cave at Kongdong Mountain, where he finally fell asleep after five days of barely resting.

• Chen Shouyi noticed his attributes had improved, including intelligence, and spent a thousand Faith Value to raise Giant Battle Body to 11.05%.
• After eating Demigod Meat, Chen Shouyi transformed and tested his increased agility with a punch that sent Shell Girl flying in the shock wave.
• Chen Shouyi told his family he was going to the other world to cultivate in seclusion, then informed Bai Xiaoling he would be near the Space Channel in Huangling Town.
• On his fifth day in the desert, Chen Shouyi was nearly caught in a terrifying sandstorm and retreated into a cave at Kongdong Mountain with Shell Girl.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel, then fell asleep after spending five days in the other world with less than ten hours of rest.

After mastering Chen Shouyi’s cultivation method, Wang Lie learned that others had succeeded too, while Chen emerged from a devastating storm and was summoned for a national mission. Chen collected his unfinished greatsword and departed by helicopter, leaving his family a note.

• Researchers in Beijing tested volunteers claiming to have mastered Chen’s Cultivation Method, while Wang Lie learned that Zhu Xueqing had succeeded in Xijing.
• Wang Lie finally mastered Chen’s method after half a month of practice and began teaching his daughter, who asked him for Chen Shouyi’s autograph and photo.
• After the five-day storm ended, Chen Shouyi left the sand-covered cave, and Shell Girl warned him that a bad giant was approaching.
• Bai Xiaoling told Chen that the military had a national mission for him, and he agreed to go after confirming it was not in Jiangnan Province.
• Chen visited Jiangnan Province’s First Heavy Machinery Factory, collected the unfinished greatsword, and left it in his pocket space.
• Chen left a note at home and boarded a military helicopter, which carried him away.

Chen Shouyi arrived in Shan Kui Province to investigate monsters appearing in the shadows and learned the strange incidents had spread across nearly half the province. After finding a possible Divine Emblem linked to the threat, he planned to investigate it the next day.

• A military officer told Chen Shouyi that people in Tuo'an City had been disappearing and turning into shadow-hiding monsters, and that an elite military team sent to investigate had not returned.
• Chen Shouyi reached a village command center and met Wang Lie and Zhu Xueqing, who had arrived two days earlier.
• Chen Shouyi learned that the incidents had spread across nearly half of Shan Kui Province and that the army had sealed off its northern region.
• Zhu Xueqing and Wang Lie told Chen Shouyi that villagers feared the shadow monsters and displayed wooden triangles resembling Divine Emblems outside their homes.
• Chen Shouyi examined the wooden emblem, found no sign of divine faith radiance, and decided he would learn more the next day.
• Wang Lie asked Chen Shouyi for an autograph and a martial arts blessing for Wang Yuting.

Chen Shouyi, Zhu Xueqing, and Wang Lie traveled toward Tuo'an City to investigate the source of the danger in Shan Kui Province. After encountering a Shadow Creature and finding Guangcheng County outwardly orderly but strangely fearful, they decided to seek information at the county government.

• Chen Shouyi saw Wang Lie practicing the revised Thirty-Six Body Tempering Forms and advised him to link the movements together.
• Chen Shouyi, Zhu Xueqing, and Wang Lie set out through the frozen countryside and encountered a Shadow Creature, which Chen Shouyi captured and killed.
• The group reached Guangcheng County and decided to stay for a day or two to assess the situation before heading to Tuo'an City.
• A hotel owner refused to let them stay without residence permits and fled when Wang Lie and Chen Shouyi questioned her about the danger.
• Chen Shouyi and his companions chose to go to the county government for information as the dawn sky blazed red.

Chen Shouyi, Zhu Xueqing, and Wang Lie investigated reports of Harbingers of Sin in the sealed-off Guangcheng County and questioned its top official, Shao Jinqian. Shao warned that the Harbingers pursued people who learned about them, and Chen decided the group would travel to Tuo'an City the next morning after a cautious night at the guesthouse.

• At breakfast, Chen Shouyi, Zhu Xueqing, and Wang Lie overheard locals whispering that Zhang the cripple had vanished after becoming a Harbinger of Sin.
• Wang Lie suggested that people who had done evil were being transformed, while Chen Shouyi questioned how the force judged good and evil.
• At the county government, Shao Jinqian identified Chen Shouyi as the team leader and reluctantly agreed to answer their questions.
• Shao Jinqian called the Harbingers of Sin a taboo and said they were everywhere, then identified Chen Shouyi's triangular badge as a symbol of the Justice Cult and mentioned other cults.
• After leaving, Chen Shouyi spotted Shao Jinqian watching them from a fifth-floor window, crushed the badge, and decided they would stay overnight and head to Tuo'an City in the morning.
• Chen Shouyi warned Zhu Xueqing and Wang Lie to be careful that night in case the Harbingers came after them.

Chen Shouyi strengthened his Giant Battle Body with Faith Value, then fought off shadow monsters that had targeted the group in Guangcheng County. After learning the county Party secretary had died by suicide, he continued toward Tuo'an City with Wang Lie and Zhu Xueqing, stopping to share Demigod Meat.

• Chen Shouyi spent 900 Faith Value to raise his Giant Battle Body (Advanced) from 12.05% to 21.05%.
• Chen Shouyi killed the shadow monsters lurking outside his window, then warned Zhu Xueqing and met Wang Lie, who had also been attacked.
• A deputy county magistrate told Chen Shouyi that the county Party secretary had been found frozen after jumping to his death.
• Chen Shouyi left Guangcheng County with Wang Lie and Zhu Xueqing and traveled toward Tuo'an City.
• Chen Shouyi shared Demigod Meat with Wang Lie and Zhu Xueqing, who struggled to chew it and saved most of their portions.