Recaps

Chen Shouyi explored ancient Ruins in the forbidden land, found a large Divine Stone hidden in the giant monster’s dung, and continued deeper with the two Little Dots. A terrifying pressure then swept over him and vanished, leaving him shaken.

• Chen Shouyi tested the Ruins’ stairs and statues, but neither budged under his immense strength.
• Chen Shouyi searched the filthy hall with Shell Girl and Little Dot Number Two after returning to his normal size.
• Shell Girl found a three-kilogram Divine Stone hidden inside a pile of dung, and Chen Shouyi retrieved it.
• Little Dot Number Two searched the other dung piles but found nothing, so Chen Shouyi left the Ruins with both Little Dots.
• A terrifying pressure swept in from afar and immobilized Chen Shouyi for a minute before fading.

After a terrifying force altered the forbidden land’s space, Chen Shouyi escaped and cultivated in seclusion to prepare for a future fight with God of Lightning. He invested twenty thousand Faith Value in Control Atmosphere and immediately unleashed a massive tornado.

• Chen Shouyi saw the Ruins crack apart and sensed that the surrounding space had changed, so he summoned the second Little Dot and decided to retreat.
• Chen Shouyi followed his markers through distorted space, avoided a trap that made blood seep from his body, and spent four days finding his way out.
• Chen Shouyi left the forbidden land, then cultivated in a mountain cave for seven days to increase his strength.
• Chen Shouyi saw that his attributes had risen and spent twenty thousand Faith Value on Control Atmosphere to defend against God of Lightning.
• Chen Shouyi tested his strengthened Control Atmosphere, forming a huge tornado that swept trees into the air.

Chen Shouyi tested how his Vacuum Domain protected him from lightning, then returned to Earth and learned that the Lord of Lightning had occupied Yanzhou but stopped advancing after the European Alliance used a super hydrogen bomb. He left the God of Conspiracy behind and flew toward the sky, while she realized he had grown even stronger.

• Chen Shouyi tested his Vacuum Domain against lightning and found that it shielded him from most of its effects.
• Chen Shouyi emerged from the Space Channel on Earth, where the barbarian Legend and other guards recognized him and paid him respect.
• The God of Conspiracy told Chen Shouyi that the Lord of Lightning had occupied Yanzhou two months earlier and had not advanced since the European Alliance dropped a super hydrogen bomb.
• Chen Shouyi asked for no further details, then took off and left the God of Conspiracy watching him fly away.

After returning to Zhonghai, Chen Shouyi reunited with his family and learned from the newspapers that the nations were preparing for war. He spent the night cultivating, readying himself for the people likely to seek him out the next day.

• Chen Shouyi arrived in Zhonghai and passed a military checkpoint, where a soldier recognized him as Chief Chen.
• Chen Shouyi returned home, reassured Father Chen, Mother Chen, and Chen Xingyue, and concealed his concern about the military buildup.
• Shell Girl introduced Little Dot Number Two to Chen Shouyi’s home, and Chen Shouyi separated the two when they began fighting.
• Chen Shouyi read reports about a new military alliance and the restoration of the Great Xia Nation’s nuclear strike capability.
• Chen Shouyi flew to an uninhabited mountain, fed the two little figures, and cultivated with the Divine Stone through the night.

Anderson and Mark attended a martial arts meeting where the Great Xia Nation announced an imminent war that would decide humanity’s fate. Officials and the president asked Chen Shouyi to survive and protect the researchers who would preserve humanity’s future if the nation fell.

• Anderson and Mark arrived at the Martial Arts General Bureau and discussed their new lives in the Great Xia Nation.
• Ye Zong greeted Anderson and Mark before the meeting began.
• The director announced that humanity faced a war against the barbarian gods, and defeat would bring eternal darkness.
• The senior official of Zhonghai City and the garrison commander asked Chen Shouyi to escort humanity’s researchers to another world if the Great Xia Nation fell.
• The president called Chen Shouyi and repeated the request that he preserve his life for humanity’s future.

Chen Shouyi inspected Zhonghai’s preparations to evacuate supplies and researchers through a Space Channel as the threat of war loomed. After absorbing a Divine Stone and strengthening Giant Battle Body, he transformed and began planning how to fight Lord of Lightning.

• Chen Shouyi questioned a military officer about who could evacuate to the other world, and the officer admitted he had family to care for but insisted he was not a deserter.
• Chen Shouyi visited the heavily guarded Space Channel and saw supplies being gathered to rebuild civilization elsewhere.
• Great Xia secretly transferred top researchers and engineers to Zhonghai while rumors spread and the predicted war failed to begin.
• Half a month later, Chen Shouyi absorbed the Divine Stone’s remaining energy, raised his stats, and spent Faith Value advancing Giant Battle Body to 50.01%.
• Chen Shouyi transformed into a twenty-meter giant, tested his strength, and simulated a battle against Lord of Lightning using Vacuum Domain and Air Lock.

Chen Shouyi visited Song Tingting at Hai University and gave her three tubes of demigod blood as the city prepared for war. Over the Pacific, a reconnaissance fighter encountered an abnormal thunderstorm and exploded after plunging into the clouds.

• Chen Shouyi went to Hai University and found Song Tingting with help from a student.
• Chen Shouyi walked with Song Tingting, urged her to keep training, and gave her three tubes of demigod blood.
• Wang Laijun and Zhang Wei flew a reconnaissance mission toward a violent thunderstorm over the Pacific.
• Wang Laijun tried to turn the fighter back after static electricity disrupted its systems, but the plane plunged into the clouds and exploded under repeated lightning strikes.

As the war against the Barbarian Gods began, Chen Shouyi was ordered to evacuate with his family to the Otherworld under the Human Kindling Plan. The family reached the crowded Space Channel, where Chen Xingyue asked him to rescue her students, but he refused and tried to comfort her.

• Sirens sounded across the country as troops went on alert and prepared for war.
• A soldier told Chen Shouyi to carry out the Human Kindling Plan, and he agreed to evacuate with Shell Girl and Little Dot Number Two.
• Chen Shouyi collected his parents and Chen Xingyue, then asked soldiers to bring his two uncles and aunt to safety.
• During the evacuation, Chen Shouyi told Chen Xingyue they were heading to the Otherworld and admitted they might have to stay there for the rest of their lives.
• At the stalled line of vehicles near the Space Channel, Chen Xingyue asked Chen Shouyi to bring her students, but he refused and told her not to bear responsibility for everyone.

Chen Shouyi brought his family through the Space Channel as people fled Earth, then flew to the Rising Sun Country to witness a Great Divine Power Barbarian God’s storm. After a lightning strike nearly killed him, he recovered underwater and returned toward Zhonghai City.

• Chen Shouyi’s family entered the other world and settled into a suite made from shipping containers as relatives arrived.
• Chen Shouyi saw refugees struggling with fear and grief, including Professor Zhang, who wanted to return to his family on Earth.
• Chen Shouyi flew to the Rising Sun Country and saw a vast divine storm before a Great Divine Power Barbarian God struck him with lightning.
• Chen Shouyi crashed into the ocean, assessed his severe injuries, and spent 1,000 Faith Value on self-healing.
• Chen Shouyi ate Great Divine Power meat, traveled back along the ocean floor, and flew toward Zhonghai City after the storm disappeared from view.

Chen Shouyi relived his battle with the Lord of Lightning and survived the Cloud Giant’s devastating attack, but the god’s true body never appeared. Afterward, he reunited with Ye Zong and Luo Jingwen and learned that Wang Lie had died months earlier.

• Chen Shouyi returned to the other world, spoke with his family and Jiang Yanyan, then entered the Book of Knowledge to revisit his memories.
• In the memory, Chen Shouyi flew toward Rising Sun Country and endured the Lord of Lightning’s repeated strikes with his Vacuum Domain and armor.
• The Lord of Lightning formed a Cloud Giant over a thousand meters tall, and a nuclear missile damaged its projection without stopping it from regenerating.
• Chen Shouyi survived the Cloud Giant’s lightning beam and challenged the Barbarian God to send its true body, but it did not appear.
• Ye Zong and Luo Jingwen arrived with An Haoran and Mark, whom Chen Shouyi recognized as former members of the Myriad Gods Society before accepting their explanation that they had been pardoned.
• Chen Shouyi asked about Wang Lie and Zhu Xueqing, and Luo Jingwen told him that Wang Lie had sacrificed himself nearly half a year earlier.

Chen Shouyi considered humanity’s dire prospects and found a possible way to fight the Lord of Lightning by using the Space Channel. As crowds gathered around the channel, he hurried toward another nearby passage to put his idea into action.

• Chen Shouyi walked through the forest with Luo Jingwen, An Haoran, Mark, and Ye Zong, asking whether An Haoran and Mark had seen the Lord of Lightning.
• The president called Chen Shouyi, lamented humanity’s likely defeat, and urged him to stay alive as humanity’s last hope.
• Unable to sleep, Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel, transformed into an eighty-meter giant in the forest, and realized he might ambush the Lord of Lightning across a Space Channel.
• More than a million people gathered near the Space Channel, and Chen Shouyi hurried with Shell Girl and Little Dot toward a medium-to-large channel near a town.

Chen Shouyi transformed at a remote Space Channel and demolished its heavily fortified base before heading back to his home in the other world. As the Barbarian God’s arrival threatened, he told his family he was leaving on a secret mission and gave Chen Xingyue divine blood to safeguard them.

• Chen Shouyi ordered the soldiers to evacuate the remote Space Channel base, then transformed and tore through its defenses.
• Chen Shouyi grew over forty meters tall in the dense Primal Force and demonstrated his immense strength with a punch that sent a column of compressed air miles away.
• The senior official left the ruins and gave his secretary a vial of divine blood for his son, along with permission to enter the Space Channel.
• Chen Shouyi returned to his home in the other world and told his worried family he was going to explore another channel.
• Chen Shouyi gave Chen Xingyue thirty vials of true divine blood to keep in case danger came while he was away.

Chen Shouyi prepared for Lord of Lightning’s arrival while nuclear strikes slowed but failed to stop the god’s advance. As lightning struck near his position, Chen Shouyi sent Shell Girl and the second Little Dot fleeing before the coming battle.

• Chen Shouyi surveyed the other world near the passage and identified a river and a distant rift as possible escape routes.
• Lord of Lightning’s dark clouds overwhelmed the Rising Sun Country, and nuclear missiles tore holes in them without stopping their advance.
• Chen Shouyi sensed the worsening conditions, continued cultivating, and spent a thousand Faith Value on his self-healing ability.
• Chen Shouyi warned Shell Girl and the second Little Dot to flee if he told them to, then waited through the night as Lord of Lightning’s clouds gathered.
• After lightning struck the ground, Chen Shouyi ordered the two little ones to run, and they flew through the Space Channel.

Chen Shouyi confronted the Lord of Lightning as its attacks failed to harm him, but the Savage God’s true body arrived and left him bracing for battle at the passage.

• At Zhonghai Luoming Island Military Base, lightning destroyed a nuclear cannon and killed the surrounding soldiers, while military headquarters lost contact with several regions.
• Chen Shouyi armored himself, called out the Lord of Lightning, and endured its lightning strikes without injury.
• A black-clad young man watched Chen Shouyi and remarked on humanity’s rapid rise before vanishing.
• The Lord of Lightning summoned a Cloud Giant, but Chen Shouyi hurled a chunk of concrete and severed its arm, forcing it to retreat into the clouds.
• As the atmosphere grew oppressive, Chen Shouyi sensed the Lord of Lightning’s true body approaching, retreated to the passage, and readied a bone club.

Chen Shouyi fought the Lord of Lightning, who overwhelmed him with divine power and left him gravely wounded. He lured the Lord toward the Space Channel and landed a devastating surprise punch, but the Lord cried out against the Thief of Fate as a blinding light erupted.

• The Lord of Lightning arrived, and Chen Shouyi attacked it with blasts of compressed air that barely slowed it.
• The Lord of Lightning struck Chen Shouyi with lightning and a spear, badly burning and piercing him despite his armor.
• Chen Shouyi endured the Lord's attacks, seized its spear, and threw it into the Space Channel.
• With his strength failing, Chen Shouyi used the armor's power to rush toward the Space Channel and draw the Lord after him.
• Chen Shouyi punched through the Space Channel and blasted the Lord of Lightning away, prompting it to shout, "Thief of Fate, how dare you?" before a blinding light flared.

After striking the Lord of Lightning, Chen Shouyi survived with most of his organs destroyed and used Faith Value to accelerate his healing. He emerged from the Space Channel to find the divine aura gone and the sky clearing, but he did not know for certain whether the danger was over.

• Chen Shouyi collapsed after his punch struck the Lord of Lightning and realized he had no strength left to stand.
• Chen Shouyi removed his armor and dug out his charred organs and dead tissue while slowly clearing the divine power from his wounds.
• The two Little Dots returned and fretted over Chen Shouyi as he struggled to recover.
• Chen Shouyi spent 200 Faith Value to improve Self-Healing, purge the remaining divine power, and regrow his organs.
• After eating and recovering enough to stand, Chen Shouyi left the two Little Dots behind and stepped through the Space Channel.
• Chen Shouyi found the sky clearing and the divine aura gone, then wondered whether it was over.

After the Barbarian God retreated, Chen Shouyi returned to the camp and told the leaders that the war was safe for now. He reunited with Chen Xingyue, who was relieved to see him alive but startled by how thin he had become.

• Chen Shouyi walked through the devastated landscape and told soldiers guarding the sealed Space Channel that the Barbarian God had retreated.
• The evacuation camp prepared to move to a defensible valley, while Zhang Simin and Academician Fang discussed the journey and the land's suitability for crops.
• A soldier told the camp leaders that Chen Shouyi had returned and announced the victory, prompting Zhang Simin to go look for him.
• Chen Shouyi searched through the crowded vehicles until Chen Xingyue spotted him and ran over in tears.
• Chen Xingyue noticed Chen Shouyi had grown extremely thin, and he said he would recover in a few days.

After wounding the Lord of Lightning, Chen Shouyi left the military base with his family and learned that the city believed the war was over. A mysterious man then warned him that the weakened Lord of Lightning could recover and become Tamu’s supreme god.

• Zhang Simin asked Chen Shouyi about the fighting, and Chen said he had wounded the Lord of Lightning, forcing him to retreat.
• After the nuclear land mines at the tunnel entrance were removed, Chen Shouyi drove away from the base with his family as Zhonghai City celebrated the Barbarian God’s retreat.
• Chen Xingyue asked whether Chen Shouyi had driven the Barbarian God away, and he confirmed it while privately recognizing the peace was temporary.
• Feeling intense hunger, Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel, saw that his strength had fallen by 3.4 points, and ate several pounds of True God Meat.
• The mysterious man who had once prophesied humanity’s danger appeared and told Chen Shouyi that the Lord of Lightning was weak but could recover if given time.

After returning home, Chen Shouyi used his willpower to clean the house and slept for more than a day while recovering from his ordeal. Once awake, he ate, went for a walk, and reflected on how dangerous Great Divine Power could become.

• Chen Shouyi returned home and used his willpower to sweep the dust throughout the house into the trash can, astonishing his family.
• Chen Xingyue explained to Mother Chen that Chen Shouyi's cleaning ability was willpower and revealed that he could fly too.
• Chen Shouyi found the telephone lines cut, fed and bathed the two little creatures, then fell into a deep sleep from exhaustion.
• Chen Shouyi woke the following afternoon, ate True God Meat, and learned from Chen Xingyue that his family had stayed home while the streets filled with people after curfew ended.
• Mother Chen served Chen Shouyi porridge despite his protests, and he went to the bathroom before heading out for a walk.
• Seeing workers repair the electrical grid damaged by Lord of Lightning's magnetic storm, Chen Shouyi considered the threat posed by Great Divine Power and the Supreme God.

After recovering from his injuries, Chen Shouyi traveled to a remote island to test the Lightning Spear taken from the Lord of Lightning. He overcame the deity’s imprint and claimed the weapon, then flew back with the two Little Dots.

• A senior official from Zhonghai City visited Chen Shouyi, and the city remained without electricity as repairs dragged on.
• After his body recovered, Chen Shouyi flew to a remote island to deal with the restless Lightning Spear.
• Chen Shouyi tested the spear’s lightning power and found that its length could change, making it suitable for his Giant Transformation.
• Chen Shouyi clashed with the Lord of Lightning’s imprint four times and destroyed it, refining the Lightning Spear for himself.
• Chen Shouyi stored the weapon, called over the two Little Dots, and flew back.

Chen Shouyi hosted Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing after they visited, then gave them bags of Savage God Meat to take home. The two accepted the unexpected gift despite their initial reluctance.

• Chen Shouyi welcomed Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing and ordered them a meal at a government guesthouse.
• Zhu Xueqing asked whether Chen Shouyi had driven off the Lord of Lightning, but he dismissed the rumor as unbelievable.
• Chen Shouyi congratulated Luo Jingwen on becoming a Legend, and the three talked about cultivation.
• Chen Shouyi invited Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing to his home, hinting that he had a gift for them.
• Chen Shouyi brought them more than twenty pounds of Savage God Meat each, and Luo Jingwen offered to carry Zhu Xueqing's share.

At a summit, Great Xia Nation’s president revealed the enormous gap between Chen Shouyi and the Lord of Lightning. After weeks of training, Chen Shouyi discovered an unusually dense Faith Domain at a Guanyin temple and suspected something was wrong.

• At the leaders’ summit, Joseph and Lucy Nation pressed Great Xia Nation to take responsibility for humanity, while its president cited its overseas forces.
• Joseph asked how strong Chen Shouyi was compared with the Lord of Lightning, and the president said the gap was enormous.
• Over the following weeks, Chen Shouyi trained in the snow mountains, slowly improved his attributes, and invested Faith Value in Control Atmosphere.
• Chen Shouyi took an unfamiliar route home and sensed a dense power of faith surrounding a village.
• Chen Shouyi followed the incense to a Guanyin temple, wondered how it could have a Faith Domain, and heard a sinister voice ask what he was doing there.

Chen Shouyi discovered that a barbaric fertility god had infiltrated villages by posing as Guanyin who grants children, spreading its Faith Domains unnoticed. After the government found the cult had affected up to two hundred thousand people across three townships, Chen arrived to take charge of the response and declined a meeting.

• Chen Shouyi visited a village temple and recognized that the goddess posing as Guanyin was a barbaric god associated with fertility.
• Chen Shouyi found similar Faith Domains in nearby villages and realized the god was spreading its faith covertly through fertility worship.
• Chen Shouyi spotted a new-style Guanyin statue at an incense shop, bought it, and threw it away before reporting the situation to the city chief's office.
• The city government investigated and found the cult had affected three townships and up to one or two hundred thousand people.
• Chen Shouyi arrived at Changqiao Town with Bai Xiaoling, greeted officers and officials, and told them to hold their meeting without him.

Chen Shouyi led the government campaign to destroy temples of the Shoe Cult, easily repelled the barbarian god’s remote attack, and watched the local Faith Domain dissipate. As the temple purge continued, Zhao Song linked the god to Southeast Asia’s God of Fertility and reported that its territory was suffering famine from a surge in births.

• Zhao Song reported that preparations were complete, and Chen Shouyi ordered the temple-clearing operation to begin.
• Soldiers warned villagers against the Shoe Cult, while Chen Shouyi told Bai Xiaoling to stay back but allowed her to accompany him.
• Military martial artists toppled a Divine Statue, provoking the barbarian god to threaten divine punishment and frighten the gathered villagers.
• Chen Shouyi used his will to block the god’s weakened remote projection, ending the oppressive aura and causing the local Faith Domain to dissipate.
• Chen Shouyi ordered the government to strengthen its propaganda as the temple-clearing operation spread across nearby villages.
• Zhao Song said intelligence linked the barbarian god to Southeast Asia’s God of Fertility and reported that excessive births had caused famine in its territory.

Chen Shouyi returned home after clearing temples, spent the night training his strength while caring for Shell Girl and Little Red Dot, and read about the changing military situation the next morning. Meanwhile, European military experts Fischer and Aletto began their three-year assignment in the Great Xia Nation, and Fischer reluctantly studied Chinese as their train departed.

• Bai Xiaoling left Chen Shouyi’s home, and Mother Chen and Chen Dawei discussed whether she might make a suitable daughter-in-law for him.
• Shell Girl and Little Red Dot fought over who was fiercer, then both asked Chen Shouyi for food before he resumed honing his strength.
• Chen Shouyi read that the Great Xia Nation planned to demobilize another twenty million soldiers as its martial artists grew more numerous and its defenses strengthened.
• At Berlin International Railway Station, Fischer said goodbye to his wife before boarding a train to the Great Xia Nation for a three-year assignment.
• Fischer met Aletto on the train, learned that Aletto had volunteered for the assignment, and began studying Chinese despite resenting being sent abroad.