Recaps

Chen Shouyi accepted the president’s request to warn the God of Fertility in Southeast Asia and flew to Taifo Nation. There, the god realized Chen had arrived, and the chapter ended with her frozen in fear as he plunged toward her.

• Chen Shouyi declined Chen Xingyue’s invitation to attend the school’s New Year’s performance.
• The president asked Chen Shouyi to investigate the cult’s infiltration in Southeast Asia and warned him only to deliver a message, not remove the god.
• Bai Xiaoling brought Chen Shouyi files identifying the God of Fertility’s territory on the Malay Peninsula, and he set off for Taifo Nation.
• The girl in green warned the beautiful young woman that Great Xia Nation had destroyed the God of Bloodshed and would not tolerate further interference.
• Chen Shouyi streaked down from the sky toward the two women, and the girl in green recognized him as the terrifying human.

Chen Shouyi killed the God of Fertility’s avatar after learning she had backed an evil cult in Great Xia Nation. He then explored the God of Conspiracy’s territory of faith, where two women arrived at dusk to escort him at their lord’s Oracle.

• Chen Shouyi landed as the God of Conspiracy and the God of Fertility fought, then asked Vesh whether she was behind the evil cult in Great Xia Nation.
• The God of Conspiracy blamed Vesh, and Chen Shouyi slapped her before Vesh admitted her involvement; he then killed Vesh’s avatar.
• The God of Conspiracy offered to lead Chen Shouyi to Vesh’s territory, but he refused and flew to a city in the God of Conspiracy’s territory of faith.
• Chen Shouyi toured the city and observed how the God of Fertility’s influence shaped its customs and people.
• At dusk, two young women arrived at their lord’s Oracle to escort Chen Shouyi, and he asked the Chinese girl whether she could speak Chinese.

After completing his mission, Chen Shouyi returned to Zhonghai and asked the president for more Great Divine Power, while Fischer received and answered a letter from his wife in Europe. The chapter ended with Fischer mailing his reply and hoping his family could join him in Great Xia Nation.

• After Chen Shouyi left, Vesta woke and discovered that none of the seeds he had left behind showed signs of life.
• Chen Shouyi returned home through the snow and reported his mission to the president, then asked for more Great Divine Power.
• Chen Shouyi told the president he had about half a ton of Great Divine Power left, enough for only a month, and the president promised to seek supplies from other countries.
• Fischer received a letter from his wife, Joanna, and read about her and their son John as well as rising bread prices in Europe.
• Fischer wrote back about his work and life in Great Xia Nation, said he would send money, and invited Joanna and John to join him.
• Fischer checked his reply for sensitive information and mailed it.

Chen Shouyi optimized his self-healing talent, discovering that it let him control a severed finger and reconnect it almost instantly. He believed the improvement might help him resist divine power and decided to seek out the Flame God to test it.

• Chen Xingyue sparred with Chen Shouyi, who told her she was still far from the peak martial artist level and promised to get her Divine Marrow.
• After recalling his recent intimacy with a Barbarian God, Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and spent nine thousand Faith Value to raise Self-healing from 1.01% to 10.01%.
• Chen Shouyi severed his little finger with the Shadow Sword and found he could control it while it remained detached.
• Chen Shouyi reattached the finger, and its nerves, vessels, bone, and muscle fused back together within seconds.
• Chen Shouyi remembered the hardships caused by the Flame God and decided to use Him as a whetstone.

Chen Shouyi prepared to fight the Flame God by training in his giant form and improving his resistance to divine flames. He reached the military exclusion zone around ruined Hedong City, where a young female officer asked him for an autograph.

• Chen Shouyi trained in the snowy mountains, testing his giant form and Lightning Spear but finding that he lacked aerial agility.
• Chen Shouyi used his armor to move more quickly in the air, but its strain drained his mind in less than a second.
• Chen Shouyi spent a week training and reliving his battle with the Flame God in a virtual world, where he died repeatedly.
• Chen Shouyi raised his self-healing ability to 15.1% with Faith Value points, left the two Little Dots at home, and set out for Hedong City.
• A young female officer chatted with Chen Shouyi during the military vehicle ride and asked him for his autograph.

Chen Shouyi traveled through the Space Channel and searched Tam World for the Flame God's believers, eventually locating a huge settlement along a river. As the barbarians gathered fish for winter, an unknown danger approached and sent them fleeing from the riverbank.

• Chen Shouyi gave the female officer a small blessing, then passed through the guarded Space Channel into Tam World.
• Chen Shouyi flew high above the land and used his intelligence to search for signs of the Flame God's believers.
• Chen Shouyi found a vast chain of barbarian tribes along a great river and flew toward them at supersonic speed.
• The Flame God's believers enjoyed a plentiful winter fish harvest within their god's warm Faith Domain.
• The birds fled, the ground trembled, and the barbarians abandoned the riverbank as a terrifying threat approached.

Chen Shouyi returned to the Flame God's territory and provoked him into pursuing him beyond his Faith Domain. After revealing his true strength, Chen Shouyi wounded the Flame God with the Lightning Spear and destroyed him with a giant punch.

• Chen Shouyi trampled barbarians as he walked along the river, drawing the Flame God's furious attention.
• Chen Shouyi traded insults with the Flame God, then fled beyond the Faith Domain while deliberately destroying another tribe to lure him after.
• The Flame God pursued Chen Shouyi with divine fire and Death Gaze, while Chen Shouyi's resistance to divine power began to weaken.
• Chen Shouyi burned Faith Value, transformed into an eighty-meter giant, and charged at the Flame God.
• Chen Shouyi pierced the Flame God's divine shield with the Lightning Spear, blasting away half his chest and one arm.
• Chen Shouyi struck the wounded Flame God with a giant fist and blasted his body apart.

Chen Shouyi killed the Flame God, gathered the scattered remains, and claimed the god’s believers, though many died resisting or grieving their fallen deity. He returned to Earth and told the Space Channel base that the threat was gone.

• Chen Shouyi recovered from his injuries, summoned the Lightning Spear, and spent an hour collecting the Flame God’s scattered remains.
• Chen Shouyi marched with the Flame God’s head to announce the god’s fall, but many believers killed themselves or were buried with him.
• Three Legendary barbarians attacked Chen Shouyi, and he crushed them before taking control of about three million believers.
• Chen Shouyi flew back through the Space Channel and told the base leaders that the barbarian god was dead.
• The Regiment Commander asked if Chen Shouyi was serious, and Chen Shouyi confirmed it before walking outside.

After the Flame God's fall, the Faith Domain disappeared, leaving the barbarians exposed to winter and struggling to survive. Chen Shouyi woke in Zhonghai, discovered his Energy Value was growing faster than before, and joined his relieved family downstairs.

• The Faith Domain dissipated after the Flame God's fall, and the former Flame God tribe faced a sudden plunge into freezing weather.
• The tribe's chief gathered the warriors, who tried running to stay warm before hunting for furs, but many tribespeople froze to death.
• On the third day, a tribesperson suggested digging a cellar to shelter from the wind.
• Chen Shouyi woke at night, found the curse had vanished, and noticed the Book of Knowledge had expanded.
• Chen Shouyi discovered his Energy Value was increasing by 0.4 a day, then went downstairs, where Mother Chen offered to heat up food.

After the president praised Chen Shouyi for killing the Flame God, Chen reunited with Wang Shengyuan and gave him True God Meat. The chapter left Chen reflecting on humanity’s rapid technological recovery and the modest faith he gained from the Flame God’s former followers.

• The president called Chen Shouyi to commend him and said negotiations to trade the Great Divine Power’s flesh were underway.
• Chen Shouyi ran into Wang Shengyuan at Donghai University and learned he had become a martial arts teacher after his investigation ended.
• Chen Shouyi took Wang Shengyuan to a secluded park and gave him thirty or forty kilograms of True God Meat to help him reach peak Martial Master.
• Chen Shouyi read about humanity’s territorial gains and technological advances, including a new balloon radar and a powerful computer.
• Chen Shouyi noted that his strength had mostly stalled, while his Faith Value rose to about six hundred points a day from the Flame God’s former followers.

As Zhonghai recovered and Chen Shouyi kept to his cultivation, he discovered that his will could sense acquaintances at a distance and influence the world around him. He left the chapter demonstrating this power by turning his snow-covered yard green as if spring had arrived.

• Chen Shouyi teased Chen Xingyue about dating, and she said any suitor should at least be a Martial Master.
• Zhang Miaomiao brought Chen Shouyi financial reports, explaining that his investments had grown but their profits had been reinvested instead of paid out as dividends.
• After Zhang Miaomiao left, Chen Shouyi used his blessing and sensed her from afar, then tried the ability on Bai Xiaoling and Song Tingting.
• Chen Shouyi discovered that he could sense acquaintances without using a blessing, though his perception weakened with distance and failed to reach Zhu Xueqing in the capital.
• Chen Shouyi called a sparrow into his hand and used his will to melt the snow and make grass grow across his yard.

Chen Shouyi traveled to Heijiang Province after a barbarian attack on Tuohua City raised fears of a Barbarian God’s involvement. The army had largely routed the barbarians, and Chen arrived at the command post to assess the situation.

• Chen Shouyi went to the Otherworld without the hibernating Little Dots and endured the snowy mountains’ extreme cold with his enhanced Self-Healing ability.
• A female officer told Chen Shouyi that more than two hundred thousand barbarians had attacked Tuohua City in Heijiang Province and might be preparing for a Barbarian God’s attack.
• Zhang Zhaohua waited in the bitter cold at a command post near Tuohua City while the army reported that it had driven most barbarians toward Gourd Mountain with few human casualties.
• Zhang Zhaohua ordered the army to slow its advance, evacuate nearby residents, and ensure troops and civilians had enough warmth and supplies.
• Chen Shouyi arrived by helicopter, and Zhang Zhaohua welcomed him before Chen asked about the situation.

Lost in the mountains after the Heavenly Fire scattered their people, Little Filo and the surviving barbarians struggled to find food and shelter. At the mountain’s edge, Chen Shouyi ordered the surrounding army to withdraw, saying the soldiers would be no use when the time came.

• Little Filo, Bamor, and Lota killed a small wild beast and secretly ate it because they expected the others to take any food they brought back.
• The priest and warriors selected aging barbarians for sacrifice, and a warrior killed Lota when he tried to flee.
• The remaining barbarians ate the sacrificed clansmen, and Little Filo realized Bamor might be chosen next.
• Chen Shouyi inspected the military camps surrounding the mountains and learned about the roughly 580,000 soldiers stationed there.
• Chen Shouyi ordered the soldiers to pull back because they would be no use when the time came.

On a bitter winter night, Chen Shouyi searched the snow-covered mountains for the Space Channel but found only scattered barbarian tracks and waited for a safer chance to act. In Tam World, the God of Winter’s ambition was revealed, and by dawn heavy snowfall threatened to disrupt the army’s encirclement.

• Chen Shouyi searched the mountains from above, killed several barbarians, and failed to locate the Space Channel before returning to his tent.
• Chen Shouyi sent away a female orderly who brought hot water and went to sleep, deciding not to risk a fight while nearby civilians remained unevacuated.
• The God of Winter lay in its Divine Kingdom’s ice cave, and its black eyes opened as it called something useless.
• Chen Shouyi woke before dawn to find waist-deep snow and watched soldiers clear the roads.
• Chen Shouyi worried that the snowfall would make it difficult for the army to enter the mountains and maintain the encirclement.

Chen Shouyi followed a trace of divine power into the mountains and confronted the God of Winter. After enduring its freezing breath and attacks, he crushed the giant wolf’s neck, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Chen Shouyi remembered Zhang Xiaoyue and then sensed a source of divine power beyond the military camp.
• Chen Shouyi walked through the snow toward the mountains, and several barbarians collapsed dead as he passed.
• The God of Winter attacked Chen Shouyi with enormous ice balls and boasted that gods were immortal.
• Chen Shouyi challenged the God of Winter and raced toward it as soldiers prepared for battle.
• The God of Winter froze Chen Shouyi with its icy breath, but Chen Shouyi broke free, grew larger, and caught the wolf after smashing its jaw.
• Chen Shouyi seized the God of Winter by the throat and crushed its neck.

Chen Shouyi quickly killed the God of Winter at the front line and returned to Zhonghai, where he reunited with Shell Girl and Little Red Dot. That evening, Zhang Xiaoyue read his bestselling book and reflected on how far he had risen since they knew each other in Dongning.

• Chen Shouyi shattered the God of Winter's head and crushed its body, killing the barbarian god.
• Zhou Chenglong learned the battle was over and heard that Chen Shouyi had already left the front line.
• Chen Shouyi returned home and reunited with Shell Girl and Little Red Dot, giving each of them a second-grade math book.
• Zhang Xiaoyue read The Path of Martial Arts at Zhonghai Industrial University and wondered whether Chen Shouyi still remembered her.

Chen Shouyi attended the opening ceremony of Zhonghai’s second Martial Artist assessment center, then left to walk through the city. He commissioned a tailor to make hundreds of outfits for his figurines before spotting a familiar figure in the crowd.

• Chen Shouyi arrived at the ceremony, greeted the officials and martial artists, and politely admitted he did not know Zhang Anlu.
• Chen Shouyi, the mayor, and Zhang Anlu presided over the ribbon-cutting, and Chen Shouyi read a prepared speech.
• Chen Shouyi asked Bai Xiaoling to let him walk home and give herself the day off.
• Chen Shouyi commissioned a tailor to make one hundred outfits each for two figurines, offering five hundred yuan per set and paying a deposit.
• Chen Shouyi noticed a familiar woman flicker past in the crowd and disappear.

Chen Shouyi reunited with Zhang Xiaoyue after three years apart and learned she was studying at Zhonghai Industrial University. Though she felt intimidated by his status and tried to keep her distance, he took her to a movie, where they watched a recording of his own speech.

• Chen Shouyi approached Zhang Xiaoyue and Zhou Min, and his intimidating presence sent Wu Wenbin away.
• Chen Shouyi introduced himself as Zhang Xiaoyue's boyfriend, and Zhou Min recognized him as Chief Chen.
• Chen Shouyi explained why he had left years earlier, and Zhang Xiaoyue asked whether his family had been safe.
• Chen Shouyi took Zhang Xiaoyue to a movie theater after Zhou Min declined to join them.
• Chen Shouyi and Zhang Xiaoyue watched a recording of his speech, and she giggled at his awkward reaction.

Chen Shouyi and Zhang Xiaoyue grew closer during their reunion, while he received six tons of meat paste from two beings with Great Divine Power. Their relationship continued to develop, and the chapter left Chen giving Zhang Xiaoyue Divine Marrow and divine blood to strengthen her.

• Chen Shouyi and Zhang Xiaoyue left the cinema, talked about their high school memories, and rode a crowded bus to Industrial University together.
• Chen Shouyi held Zhang Xiaoyue's hand, learned her dorm address, and promised to visit her the next day.
• Zhang Xiaoyue returned to a dorm full of students who teased her after Zhou Min revealed that she had been seen with Chen Shouyi.
• Chen Shouyi received and signed for six tons of meat paste made from two beings with Great Divine Power.
• Chen Shouyi visited Zhang Xiaoyue regularly, turned down an invitation to speak at her university, and gave her small doses of Divine Marrow and divine blood.

Chen Shouyi strengthened his talents with Faith Value before learning that Qin Liuyuan had been killed on a mission. He traveled to Ningzhou to attend Qin Liuyuan’s memorial service, arriving in a city that had largely recovered from its past devastation.

• Chen Shouyi spent ten thousand Faith Value on each of his three super talents, increasing their power.
• Bai Xiaoling told Chen Shouyi that Qin Liuyuan had been killed in action by a terrifying monster.
• Chen Shouyi asked Bai Xiaoling to arrange a helicopter so he could attend Qin Liuyuan’s memorial service.
• Chen Shouyi arrived in Ningzhou, where provincial leader Zhao Zize welcomed him.
• Chen Shouyi and Bai Xiaoling drove through Ningzhou toward the funeral home where Qin Liuyuan’s body lay.

Chen Shouyi attended Qin Liuyuan’s funeral, then went to the Otherworld to optimize the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening. The optimization ended with him coughing up steaming blood, but he recognized the resulting technique’s extraordinary power.

• Chen Shouyi attended Qin Liuyuan’s funeral and offered comfort and support to Wang Suzhen and her sons, Qin Jiale and Qin Lingjie.
• Several days later, Chen Shouyi decided to postpone optimizing the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening until he could do it in the Otherworld, where its effects would be safer.
• Before dawn, Chen Shouyi took Shell Girl and Little Red Dot through the Space Channel, settled them in an ice cave, and killed a White Dragon that had wandered into the area.
• Chen Shouyi began optimizing the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening and repeatedly practiced it in a dream as the Book of Knowledge influenced his mind.
• Chen Shouyi awoke drenched in sweat, spat out steaming blood, and marveled at the power of the optimized technique.

Chen Shouyi used the fifth-optimized cultivation method, enduring catastrophic damage as his body and mind underwent repeated rounds of selection. After completing all thirty-six forms, he recovered and noticed a mutation in his hand.

• Chen Shouyi began cultivating the fifth-optimized technique and discovered that his thoughts remained clear even as his brain was damaged.
• Chen Shouyi spent days in seclusion, repeatedly cultivating and growing stronger while his body grew thinner.
• On the fifteenth day, Chen Shouyi endured the devastating thirty-fifth form as the snowy mountain shook and a Giant Beast fled from him.
• Chen Shouyi completed the thirty-sixth form, after which the destructive information vanished and Primal Force flooded into him.
• Chen Shouyi reattached his fallen bones and flesh, healed from his injuries, and noticed a mutation on his hand.

After recovering from his brutal training, Chen Shouyi returned to the city with greatly increased attributes and prepared for the New Year. He left Zhang Miaomiao to arrange the family’s gifts and air conditioners, while she awkwardly hinted at an unexplained past incident.

• Chen Shouyi noticed his skin had developed tiny scales and ate Great Divine Power meat while recovering in the other world.
• After three days of feasting, Chen Shouyi returned to the city and checked his increased Status Panel attributes.
• Chen Shouyi went to visit Zhang Xiaoyue but found that Industrial University had begun winter vacation, then collected clothes for Shell Girl and Little Red Dot.
• Shell Girl cried when she discovered Little Red Dot had one more outfit, and Chen Shouyi took one from Little Red Dot to make their piles equal.
• Zhang Miaomiao arrived with New Year goods and air conditioners, and Chen Shouyi asked her to install them in his family’s rooms.
• Zhang Miaomiao began to mention what had happened last time but quickly backed down, leaving Chen Shouyi confused.

Chen Shouyi built a warm shelter for the two little ones in the ice fields and used his growing will to reshape matter. A powerful spatial fluctuation then swept across Tam World, and he flew toward its source.

• Chen Shouyi left Zhang Miaomiao and rode his bicycle with the two little ones toward the Space Channel.
• Giants and other powerful creatures fled the ice fields, while a giant chieftain prayed to the God of Ice as Chen Shouyi smashed a mountain nearby.
• Chen Shouyi shaped the rubble into a basin and built a small shelter, then transformed its interior to make it brighter and more comfortable.
• Chen Shouyi tried to create a durable T-shirt from nearby materials, but noticed a stronger-than-usual spatial fluctuation.
• Ancient beings across Tam World turned their attention toward the forbidden zone of the gods, and Chen Shouyi flew toward the disturbance.

During New Year visits, Chen Shouyi learned that the fighting in Yanzhou remained deadlocked and discovered that his growing will could unconsciously bless or harm others. That night, he tested the God of Hunting’s sword by breaking it into atoms and reshaping it, but concluded he still fell short of the God of Hunting.

• Chen Shouyi received a stream of New Year visitors, including General Li Wenwu, who reported that the Yanzhou fighting was not going smoothly and that two million more troops would be sent after the New Year.
• Chen Shouyi accidentally blessed Li Wenwu with a faint glow through a casual remark and realized his thoughts could have powerful effects on others.
• Chen Shouyi examined the God of Hunting’s sword and sensed the electromagnetic fluctuations emitted by its atoms.
• Chen Shouyi broke the sword into scattered atoms with a flick, then gathered them back into a sword twice its original size.
• Chen Shouyi tried to enlarge the reshaped sword further, but stopped when he could not sustain the change and judged himself inferior to the God of Hunting.