Recaps

Chen Shouyi spent a tender evening with Zhang Xiaoyue, received the gloves she had knitted for him, and gave his cousin Jiang Yanyan a reforged sword before checking his rapidly improving attributes. The chapter left him nearing divine-power thresholds while considering the limits and nature of his mental power.

• Chen Shouyi met Zhang Xiaoyue in a park, accepted her knitted gloves, and apologized for being too busy to visit her.
• Chen Shouyi read about humanity’s technological advances and worried that Savage Gods could easily destroy the newly launched satellites.
• Jiang Yanyan visited with fruit, and Chen Shouyi gave her a sharp reforged longsword for her military training.
• Chen Shouyi watched Little Red Dot and Shell Girl eat meat paste, then checked his Status Panel and noted his rapid attribute growth.
• Chen Shouyi considered how his mental power compared with divine power and concluded that it remained unaffected by Primal Force.

Chen Shouyi went to Yanzhou to investigate the Void Demons and found them at a tribe near the front line. He killed the transformed attackers and the hostile members of the tribe, then left with Li Wenwu, who could only marvel at his power.

• Li Wenwu told Chen Shouyi that the Void Demons had grown more numerous and were ambushing the army, and showed him photographs of the creatures.
• Chen Shouyi sensed the Void Demons and directed Li Wenwu to a tribe near a forest, where he detected the stench of corpses and a blood sacrifice.
• The tribe's leader ordered the surrounding men to attack, and several transformed into Void Demons before Chen Shouyi froze them in place.
• Chen Shouyi seized one Void Demon and killed the hostile people with an invisible force, then told Li Wenwu the danger was over.
• As they drove away, Li Wenwu asked how Chen Shouyi had killed them, and Chen Shouyi said Li Wenwu could not learn the method.

Chen Shouyi learned that Void Demons were transformed people and that the multinational forces had left much of Yanzhou’s countryside and its followers untouched. He saw the Lord of Lightning’s Faith Domain still spread across the rear area, with much of it uncleared.

• Chen Shouyi told Li Wenwu that he could sense whether the refugees had broken free of their faith.
• Chen Shouyi arrived at the multinational forces’ command headquarters and asked how many Void Demons remained.
• Li Wenwu explained that the Void Demons were transformed people who could appear during the day as well as at night.
• The commanders realized their strategy of controlling cities had left followers across Yanzhou’s vast countryside, extending the Lord of Lightning’s power.
• Chen Shouyi settled into his lodgings, where Shell Girl and Little Red Dot cooled off in a basin of water.
• Chen Shouyi looked out at the patchy Faith Domain and saw that the army had cleared less than a third of the rear area.

Chen Shouyi watched military personnel test the Void Demon corpses and warned that the Lord of Lightning might return within six months. After returning to the hotel, he spent faith points to strengthen his abilities, causing his body to radiate intense heat.

• Flor ordered intelligence personnel to test the Void Demon corpses, and they found that heat harmed the demons while physical attacks were ineffective when they were intangible.
• At dinner, Zhang Huaihe served Chen Shouyi game meat and asked when the Lord of Lightning might return.
• Chen Shouyi said the Lord of Lightning could return within six months and urged the army to retake Yanzhou before he recovered.
• On the walk back to the hotel, Chen Shouyi spent five thousand faith points on Self-healing and ten thousand on Giant Battle Body.
• Chen Shouyi's body began radiating intense heat, and he hurried toward the hotel.

Abu and the other God Warriors raided a refugee camp, believing the Lord of Lightning’s power made them unstoppable. After a soldier’s blue-flame weapon wounded Abu and drove him to flee, a hovering figure appeared and sent Yadesiyabeiba and the other God Warriors running or falling.

• Abu and Wawaru waited with the other warriors until Yadesiyabeiba led the attack on the camp.
• Abu joined the raid, killed soldiers with his bare hands, and grew stronger as he fought.
• A martial master attacked Abu with a canister that released blue flames, burning his chest and forcing him to flee.
• Abu watched Yadesiyabeiba fight the soldiers until the warrior sensed a terrifying presence and fled.
• A figure hovered above the battlefield as the God Warriors fell one after another.

Chen Shouyi killed the fleeing Void Demons and joined the allied forces’ campaign to clear the remaining enemies across Yanzhou. After several days of fighting, he tested his improved Giant Battle Body and concluded that his Earthly height would likely top out at around thirty meters.

• Chen Shouyi pursued and killed Yadesiyabeiba, then killed Abu when he emerged from hiding.
• Chen Shouyi returned to the hotel, reassured Shell Girl and Little Red Dot, and entered the Book of Knowledge’s virtual memory world.
• The multinational forces swept through the rear and destroyed the remaining enemies, while battles caused heavy casualties across Yanzhou.
• Chen Shouyi transformed into a twenty-four-meter giant and reflected that the Book of Knowledge’s gains were diminishing.
• Chen Shouyi crushed a boulder and judged his strength sufficient, though his agility and intelligence still limited him.

Chen Shouyi visited an officers' club with Li Wenwu and learned that divine mind contamination was becoming more common among soldiers. After a contaminated officer attacked people, the rear cleanup war ended and the main forces resumed expanding into occupied territory.

• Chen Shouyi joined Li Wenwu at an officers' club and heard that another nine million expeditionary troops, including four million from the Great Xia Nation, would soon arrive.
• Li Wenwu told Chen Shouyi that Samit had reportedly broken through to demigod level.
• A crazed officer attacked people in the club, and Chen Shouyi froze him and the nearby crowd.
• Li Wenwu explained that the officer had likely suffered mind contamination linked to savage gods and that such incidents were increasing.
• Military police took control of the contaminated officer, and ten days later the rear cleanup war ended as the main forces resumed reclaiming occupied territory.

A combat squad attacked a village devoted to the God of Lightning, but a War Priest countered their bombardment and unleashed a fierce assault. At an expeditionary command meeting, Chen Shouyi took responsibility for the main battlefront as casualties mounted.

• Zhao Qiang's squad reached a village and prepared to destroy its temple with mortars.
• The mortar shells fell short, and a swarm of mutated bats and thousands of cultists, including Void Demons, charged the squad.
• Zhao Qiang identified a War Priest of the God of Lightning and ordered his squad to prepare for battle.
• A staff officer reported over 153,000 allied casualties and millions of cultists killed as the war grew more brutal.
• Zhang Huaihe asked Chen Shouyi for ideas, and Chen Shouyi said he would take over the main battlefront.

Chen Shouyi arrived at the front and attacked a city held by the heretical sect, overwhelming its defenses with his giant form and lightning spear. He crushed the High Priest and began lifting other priests and Void Demons into the air.

• At a front-line sentry post, soldiers and their platoon leader saw Chen Shouyi striding toward them as a colossal giant.
• In a nearby city, the High Priest rallied the sect’s soldiers and ordered them to fire when they spotted Chen Shouyi.
• Chen Shouyi hurled his lightning spear, destroying a Divine Statue, then walked through gunfire and artillery without being harmed.
• The sect’s soldiers began to flee as Chen Shouyi approached, and he flung the High Priest toward himself with an invisible force.
• The High Priest died of terror, and Chen Shouyi crushed her body before lifting other priests and Void Demons into the air.

Chen Shouyi overwhelmed the cultist cities and crushed the Lord of Lightning’s avatar, but halted his advance when the military could not keep pace. As he rested, he considered the Lord of Lightning’s likely injuries before dealing with the Shell Girl and Little Red Dot hiding in his shorts.

• Chen Shouyi routed the defenders of multiple cities, allowing multinational forces to occupy them with almost no resistance.
• The Lord of Lightning descended in an avatar and challenged Chen Shouyi, who crushed it beneath his foot.
• Over five days, multinational forces took control of the region, but Chen Shouyi paused because troops and supply lines could not keep up.
• Chen Shouyi reviewed his Status Panel and concluded that the Lord of Lightning’s injuries probably had not healed.
• The Shell Girl and Little Red Dot hid in Chen Shouyi’s shorts when a waitress arrived, then denied licking him after she left.

Chen Shouyi unraveled the Lightning Spear's energy and fused the Divine Artifact into his body, discovering that it changed size with him and absorbed lightning. He left with greater confidence about facing the Lord of Lightning again, though he still believed the god could likely defeat him.

• Chen Shouyi studied the Lightning Spear's force fields and used his will to transform it into a mass of energy under his control.
• He shaped the Divine Artifact into a sword, then absorbed it into his body, enduring pain as it spread through his tissues and bones.
• Chen Shouyi withdrew the energy from his brain and returned to normal size, finding that the fused artifact shrank with him and could emerge as a smaller Lightning Sword.
• He transformed again and confirmed that the artifact returned to its original size when he grew.
• Chen Shouyi flew into a storm and found that the Divine Artifact absorbed lightning with little effect on him, giving him more confidence about confronting the Lord of Lightning.

Chen Shouyi was recalled from the war in Yanzhou to negotiate with the God of Order over the God of Fertility's threatened territory. He flew back to Zhonghai first and reached home before dawn, leaving the negotiations for later.

• Chen Shouyi helped Great Xia's forces seize most of Yanzhou before he was recalled as war broke out in Southeast Asia.
• On the plane, Chen Shouyi learned that the God of Order had attacked the God of Fertility and was asked to represent Great Xia in negotiations.
• Chen Shouyi joked that the God of Order might be killed during the talks, and the officials gave him full authority to act.
• Chen Shouyi left Marid Airport and flew at extreme speed toward Zhonghai with the two little ones protected inside an air pocket.
• Chen Shouyi chose to go home before heading to Southeast Asia and arrived at his house around five in the morning.

Chen Shouyi left home for a walk as a brutal religious war continued at the Strait of Malacca, where the God of Order confronted the God of Fertility. The God of Fertility refused to submit, but a vast force suddenly broke into her Faith Domain, leaving the encounter on the verge of escalation.

• Chen Shouyi told his family he was going for a walk and left the two Little Dots in his room with math books.
• At the Strait of Malacca, followers of the God of Order and the God of Fertility fought a bloody war while Great Xia Nation covertly supplied weapons to the God of Order's enemies.
• The God of Order appeared on the battlefield and demanded that the God of Fertility leave Earth or submit to him as a subordinate god.
• The God of Fertility refused, arguing that the God of Order was too greedy and that she would not surrender her freedom without a fight.
• The God of Order threatened to find her Divine Kingdom, and the God of Fertility began to panic before noticing a huge opening in the clouds as a vast force entered her Faith Domain.

Chen Shouyi interrupted the battlefield and attacked God of Order, telling him to end the war and behave on Earth. When God of Order’s true body descended, Chen Shouyi destroyed his Avatar and flew to a nearby island to prepare for the coming fight.

• Chen Shouyi landed on the battlefield and struck God of Order down after God of Order recognized him as a fiend.
• Chen Shouyi pinned God of Order and ordered him to end the war and stop causing trouble on Earth.
• God of Order’s true body began descending, so Chen Shouyi crushed his Avatar and told God of Fertility to leave.
• God of Fertility withdrew her thought to her Divine Kingdom, while the battlefield’s followers remained prostrate and the priest was left confused.
• Chen Shouyi flew to an uninhabited Small Island, removed his clothes, and awaited God of Order’s arrival, eager for a proper fight.

Chen Shouyi used 30,000 Faith Value to raise Giant Battle Body to 99.9%, then waited on a small island for the God of Order. The God of Order arrived to attack him, and Chen Shouyi transformed as the god’s golden spear reached him.

• Chen Shouyi spent 30,000 Faith Value on Giant Battle Body, which stopped at 99.9%.
• The God of Order grew furious over Chen Shouyi’s humiliation and resolved to seize more territory to prepare for the coming chaos from the Tomb of the Gods.
• The God of Order sped to a small island and found Chen Shouyi waiting on its summit.
• The God of Order hurled his golden spear at Chen Shouyi, who transformed into a twenty-seven-meter giant as the spear reached him.

Chen Shouyi fought the God of Order, who fled after realizing he was outmatched. Chen Shouyi caught up with him in the sea and struck him with a powerful punch.

• Chen Shouyi deflected the God of Order’s spear and mocked him after blasting it away.
• The God of Order fled, and Chen Shouyi chased him across the sky, first in giant form and then at greater speed in his normal size.
• The God of Order summoned Chains of Order, but Chen Shouyi dodged or shattered them while closing the distance.
• Chen Shouyi evaded the God of Order’s attacks and repeatedly wounded him with his Shadow Sword.
• The God of Order plunged into the Great Sea to escape, but Chen Shouyi followed and punched him underwater, creating a vast expanding air bubble.

Chen Shouyi accidentally killed the God of Order while demonstrating his strength, then warned the God of Fertility to stop coveting the God of Order's territory. He returned to Zhonghai and reported the death to the president, who praised his service to humanity.

• Chen Shouyi's underwater punches created a powerful resonance that overwhelmed the God of Order's defenses and killed him.
• Chen Shouyi dragged the God of Order's corpse to Small Island, stored it away, and flew to the Malay Peninsula to warn the God of Fertility.
• The God of Fertility welcomed Chen Shouyi with praise, and he ordered her to stop coveting the God of Order's territory and warned that her preaching on Earth would not last forever.
• Chen Shouyi returned home to Zhonghai after dinner, greeted his family, and called the president to report the God of Order's death.
• The president arranged to collect the God Corpse and thanked Chen Shouyi for saving countless lives, leaving him pleased by the praise.

Chen Shouyi delivered the God Corpse to Zhonghai’s military and visited Zhang Xiaoyue, while the God of Conspiracy confronted the God of Fertility about why she had survived the powerful human’s attacks. The God of Conspiracy realized the God of Fertility had used a base method and accused her of spying.

• Chen Shouyi bathed Shell Girl and Little Red Dot, who questioned him about visiting a female giant and kissing her.
• Chen Shouyi released the enormous God Corpse in a guarded warehouse, and the officers prepared to transport it by train.
• Chen Shouyi waited for Zhang Xiaoyue at Zhonghai University of Technology, then reassured her that the fighting in Yanzhou was not dangerous.
• The God of Conspiracy visited the God of Fertility’s holy city and questioned how she had escaped harm from the powerful human.
• The God of Conspiracy realized the God of Fertility had used a base method and accused her of spying.

Chen Shouyi received research materials on Primal Force and watched Anderson explain his breakthrough in manipulating it. The footage left Chen Shouyi intrigued by Anderson’s discovery and its potential.

• Mother Chen sighed because the neighbors’ new baby made her worry that Chen Shouyi still had no partner, and Chen Shouyi mistakenly thought she wanted another child.
• Bai Xiaoling delivered a box of materials about Primal Force research and told Chen Shouyi that a breakthrough had been made.
• Chen Shouyi opened the box and watched a recording of Anderson, the former leader of the Myriad Gods Society, explaining his research.
• Anderson described how he connected deep meditation in the Chen's Cultivation Method with lowered brainwave frequencies and the ability to trigger Primal Force.
• Anderson demonstrated manipulating a colorful surge of energy, though he said he could not yet control its components well enough to produce a fireball.

Chen Shouyi experimented with manipulating Primal Force and found that, though it could produce tremendous effects, it took too long to be useful in battle. At Anderson’s laboratory, materials on Primal Force research from Chen arrived, leaving Anderson eager to examine them.

• Chen Shouyi used Primal Force to create a vast sea of flames on a snowy mountain, but concluded that the slow activation made the technique impractical for combat.
• Anderson continued his research at a laboratory in Great Xia, where he had become director after joining as a citizen.
• Anderson reviewed the laboratory’s electron-emitter experiments, which had yet to yield new discoveries about Primal Force.
• A researcher brought Anderson a box of Primal Force research materials from Chief Chen, and Anderson opened it to find a projector and two reels of film.

Chen Shouyi spent his vacation with Zhang Xiaoyue and gave her a ruby, while news of his practical Primal Force research stirred the martial arts world. At the capital’s Martial Artist Club, Lu Shouhu shared an old story about Chen and hinted at his treasured pet without revealing what it was.

• Shell Girl and Little Red Dot rejected the rough gemstones Chen Shouyi offered them.
• Chen Shouyi met Zhang Xiaoyue in a park, where she teased him about his wandering hands and accepted a ruby.
• Chen Shouyi’s research into Primal Force spread among martial artists and caused a stir.
• Lu Shouhu told martial artists that Chen Shouyi had once asked him for advice when they were both starting out.
• Lu Shouhu hinted that Chen treasured a magical pet, while keeping its identity secret.

Chen Shouyi tested a shield-and-sword fighting style in giant form, reasoning that defense would help him against faster enemies. The chapter ended with him sharing dinner with his family and denying Chen Xingyue’s claim that he was only humoring their mother.

• Chen Shouyi considered how to use his giant strength effectively and decided to improve his Control Atmosphere talent and combat skills.
• Chen Shouyi discovered that enlarging himself after merging with his lightning sword increased the Divine Artifact’s power.
• Chen Shouyi created a shield and mentally tested fighting with it and his sword against the Lord of Lightning, nearly destroying the surrounding mountains before shrinking back down.
• At dinner, Chen Dawei and Mother Chen discussed Zhonghai’s high birth rate and the deaths during the recent disasters, while Chen Xingyue disputed their claims.
• Chen Xingyue told Mother Chen that Chen Shouyi was only agreeing to humor her, and Chen Shouyi denied it.

Chen Shouyi arrived in Yanzhou as cultists abandoned their territory and massed at Buweijinba, prompting him to warn Li Wenwu that the Lord of Lightning might descend. Amid the vast migration, Amilgar lost his father and remained trapped with the crowd as it finally stopped in Buweijinba.

• Chen Shouyi reached Yanzhou, where Li Wenwu reported that cultists were retreating toward Buweijinba, and Chen Shouyi predicted the Lord of Lightning might descend.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and spent fifteen thousand Faith Value to improve Control Atmosphere.
• Amilgar worried that the mass migration to Buweijinba was dangerous, while his dying father told him to run if he got the chance.
• Amilgar's father, Akamu, died during the march, and the priests performed a brief prayer before leaving his body by the road.
• Amilgar's tribe reached Buweijinba amid an immense gathering, and seven days later the crowd became so congested that it could not move.

Chen Shouyi learned that the allied forces were debating whether to launch a nuclear strike against Buweijinba, while the decision passed to their superiors. In the tribe, Amilgar planned to escape, but the priest announced that the Avatar of Lightning would descend and require an enormous sacrifice.

• Li Wenwu drove Chen Shouyi to the allied headquarters, where Zhang Huaihe learned of Chen Shouyi’s assessment and left to attend a military meeting.
• Allied officers argued over whether to use a nuclear bomb against Buweijinba, and Zhang Huaihe ended the meeting by ordering them to notify their superiors.
• Chen Shouyi floated above Earth and saw the immense mass of faith surrounding Buweijinba and the shape of a giant of thunder within it.
• Amilgar endured a tribeswoman’s advances, mourned his situation, and resolved to escape after dealing with Olidan that night.
• The priest returned from the priests’ assembly and announced that the Avatar of Lightning would descend, then warned that the descent required an enormous sacrifice.

The Lord of Lightning prepared to restore her power by having her believers sacrifice themselves, while Chen Shouyi stayed behind to face her rather than return to China. The night passed without her appearing, but the next day brought an apocalyptic storm and heightened the officers’ reverence for Chen Shouyi.

• The Lord of Lightning decided to make her believers sacrifice themselves to restore her power, and their prayers filled the sky with Faith Power.
• Chen Shouyi returned from space as dark clouds gathered and told Li Wenwu he had about a fifty-fifty chance against the Lord of Lightning.
• Chen Shouyi assured Li Wenwu that he would sense the Lord of Lightning if she descended, then returned to his room and fed the two Little Dots.
• Chen Shouyi rested through a quiet night, but the next day a fierce storm battered the land with rain and lightning.
• Chen Shouyi ate breakfast at the hotel while nearby officers, newly reverent toward him, hesitated to approach.