Chapter Summaries

Chen Shouyi gained the Giant Battle Body talent and returned home to test it, discovering that it greatly increased his strength and size while slightly reducing his agility. After shrinking back to normal, he felt weak and prepared to return to the reservoir.

• Chen Shouyi found that the World Tree had little Faith Power and confirmed that he had gained the Giant Battle Body (Intermediate) talent.
• Chen Shouyi stopped himself from activating the talent near the reservoir, then told Bai Xiaoling and Regiment Commander Gao that he would return home briefly.
• Chen Shouyi informed his parents that he would be away for several days and fed the waiting Shell Girl honey.
• Chen Shouyi activated Giant Battle Body in his bedroom, grew to nearly three meters tall, and stopped chandelier shards from falling with his will.
• Chen Shouyi checked his transformed attributes, saw that his Strength and Constitution had increased while his Agility had decreased, then deactivated the ability and felt weak.

Chen Shouyi prepared to leave Shell Girl at home while he returned to the reservoir, where the danger from Otherworld Creatures continued to grow. After arriving, he discovered a poisonous flying insect, suggesting the contaminated reservoir held another serious threat.

• Chen Shouyi told Shell Girl to stay home, left her honey and water, and promised her a smaller mirror as a reward for waiting.
• Chen Shouyi returned to the reservoir, where Bai Xiaoling told him another regiment had arrived.
• Soldiers attacked Otherworld Creatures in the wastewater with flamethrowers and gasoline bombs, killing a large lizard-shaped creature.
• Chen Shouyi caught a brightly colored flying insect with a purple stinger after hearing it buzz through the air.
• Lin Jingyi warned that the insect was probably poisonous, and Chen Shouyi crushed it before searching the area for more.

Chen Shouyi and the others fought through a night of attacks from creatures emerging from the Space Channel while cement sealing work continued. After their team was relieved at dawn, Chen rested in camp as gunfire resumed in the distance.

• Lin Jingyi asked Chen Shouyi whether humanity would lose the war, and he said humanity would ultimately win.
• A giant creature surfaced in the reservoir, but machine guns, rapid-fire cannons, and an incendiary bomb killed it.
• Three more Giant Beasts and countless smaller creatures emerged overnight while the troops fought and sealed nearly a third of the channel with cement.
• At seven, a military team relieved Chen Shouyi's group, and he noticed Lei Ruiyang among the arriving Martial Artists.
• Chen washed up in his tent and began to rest, but distant cannon fire sounded again, prompting him to listen with a hand on his sword.

Chen Shouyi received a powerful new bow as the military sealed the Space Channel, then Qin Liuyuan urged him to unite civilian martial artists under his leadership. The chapter left Chen considering the possibility that he could become their banner.

• Chen Shouyi spoke with a young martial artist and learned he had graduated from Jiangnan Martial Arts Academy.
• Bai Xiaoling told Chen Shouyi that his two-thousand-pound bow had arrived, and he learned it had belonged to a martial master who died.
• Workers sealed the bottom of the reservoir with cement, and martial artists began withdrawing once it had hardened.
• Qin Liuyuan told Chen Shouyi that civilian martial artists needed to unite and saw him as the banner who could lead them.

Chen Shouyi declined Qin Liuyuan’s proposal to organize civilian martial artists, then collected and tested a powerful new War Bow from the provincial government. A week later in the Otherworld, he discovered that his Giant Battle Body had grown to fifteen or sixteen meters tall and possessed astonishing strength.

• Chen Shouyi refused Qin Liuyuan’s invitation to join his civilian martial artist organization.
• Chen Shouyi visited the provincial government, received a secondhand two-thousand-pound War Bow, and signed for it after testing its draw.
• After a week passed and the parasite crisis receded, Chen Shouyi transformed into his Giant Battle Body in the Otherworld.
• Chen Shouyi uprooted a ten-meter tree and hurled it into the sky, then checked his Status Panel and marveled at his increased attributes and strength.

Chen Shouyi tested his giant transformation by fighting the forest’s silver-white Giant Beast, but the form’s short time limit left him weak and forced him to flee into the cave. After the beast departed, he recovered with Shell Girl’s help and ate until he was full.

• Chen Shouyi transformed into a giant, and Shell Girl cautiously flew to him before he spotted the Giant Beast circling overhead.
• Chen Shouyi sent Shell Girl back to the cave, then fought the Giant Beast and slammed it into the ground and nearby trees.
• Chen Shouyi’s transformation ended after about five minutes, leaving him drained, so he staggered into the cave while the Giant Beast searched the area and then returned to its lair.
• Shell Girl came out to check on Chen Shouyi and kissed him as he lay weak, and he regained some strength after more than ten minutes.
• Chen Shouyi picked up his sword, went out to find food, and ate until he was full.

After using Giant Transformation to defeat a terrifying snake-like creature, Chen Shouyi discovered that it had drained all the energy he had accumulated and resumed training in the other world. Back home, his sister Chen Xingyue told him about Zhou Xue and argued with him over who was prettier.

• Chen Shouyi inspected the battlefield, realized how destructive his giant form had been, and worried that the snake-like creature's fiery breath could have badly injured him.
• Chen Shouyi returned to the cave and practiced the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening, slowly rebuilding his energy after Giant Transformation had depleted it.
• Chen Xingyue told Chen Shouyi that the principal had asked him to give a lecture, and he refused because he needed to train.
• Chen Xingyue complained that Zhou Xue had moved to their area and remained arrogant, then warned Chen Shouyi not to date someone like her.
• Chen Shouyi teased Chen Xingyue by saying Zhou Xue was prettier, and Mother Chen interrupted their bickering to call them to dinner.

Chen Shouyi improved his War Bow practice in the Otherworld while Xiao Changming returned to Hedong alive after being presumed dead. After learning Xiao Changming was being celebrated as a war hero, Chen agreed to visit him the next day, with Chen Xingyue insisting on coming along.

• Chen Shouyi practiced drawing the War Bow and discussed height with Shell Girl, who decided to stay small to remain cute.
• Xiao Changming arrived in Hedong, resisting a mysterious voice that claimed to have revived him and given him power.
• Chen Shouyi saw Qin Liuyuan with other martial artists and reflected on growing tensions over conscription and the risks facing martial artists.
• After his Strength increased, Chen Shouyi fired the War Bow with enough force to punch a deep hole in a tree, then fled to the cave when the silver-white flying creature returned.
• Chen Shouyi read that Xiao Changming had returned alive and was being honored as a war hero.
• At dinner, Chen agreed to visit Xiao Changming the next day, and Chen Xingyue persuaded him to take her along.

Chen Shouyi visited Xiao Changming with Chen Xingyue, who was impressed by his military connections and his role in the Ningzhou mission. He noticed disturbing signs that Xiao Changming might not be what he seemed, then left without revealing that he was a martial master.

• Chen Shouyi took a watermelon to visit Xiao Changming, while Chen Xingyue worried that the gift was inadequate.
• At Xiao Changming's crowded home, Chen Shouyi noticed his host's stiff expression and faint stench as military personnel greeted him as the provincial security chief advisor.
• Xiao Changming thanked Chen Shouyi for taking over the Ningzhou mission and described surviving severe wounds by hiding in the sewers until he recovered.
• Chen Shouyi and Chen Xingyue left, and Xiao Changming's fingernails blackened as his expression turned sinister before he resumed smiling.
• Chen Xingyue questioned Chen Shouyi about his title and the Ningzhou mission, and he convinced her he was merely lucky and talented.
• Chen Xingyue dismissed his claim to be a martial master, saying she might believe it after she became a Great Martial Artist.

Xiao Changming succumbed further to the eerie voice and vanished from his study, and a family was murdered in a villa district. Chen Shouyi continued training in the other world, where he reached a rate of six arrows per second.

• Xiao Changming resisted the voice and tried to eat, but it urged him to hunt humans for blood and souls.
• Xiao Changming left through an open window, and Chen Shouyi later found soldiers and police investigating the murder of a family of four in a villa.
• Chen Shouyi saw no more murders in the villa district for seven or eight days and resumed visiting the forest in the other world.
• Chen Shouyi's attributes increased slightly as his overall progress slowed, while Shell Girl hid from a stinging insect and ran to him.
• Chen Shouyi practiced archery until he could shoot six arrows per second.

Chen Shouyi tracked a fresh trail of blood to a sewer but was ambushed by a powerful, shadowy attacker who escaped. He replayed the encounter in the Book of Knowledge’s Memory Space, where he saw the attacker overpower him, but still could not identify who it was.

• Shell Girl complained about a bug in the flower bed, and Chen Shouyi crushed it before resuming his training.
• Two patrolling officers noticed an unnatural silence and discussed the murders at Fuli Police Station, while Xiao Changming resisted a voice urging him to kill.
• Chen Shouyi woke to the smell of blood, followed it to a sewer, and found a freshly bloodstained garment before an unseen attacker struck at him.
• Chen Shouyi threw a manhole cover at the attacker and fled when he could not find them, then returned home and reassured Shell Girl.
• Chen Shouyi entered the Book of Knowledge’s Memory Space and watched a blurred shadow defeat him with a powerful punch.

Chen Shouyi used Giant Transformation in the Memory Space to survive and defeat the mysterious figure who had repeatedly killed him. He discovered the figure was Xiao Changming and killed him after Xiao Changming tried to ask for mercy.

• Chen Shouyi suspected the mysterious figure knew him and reentered the Memory Space to identify him.
• The mysterious figure killed Chen Shouyi again, so Chen Shouyi used Giant Transformation in their next fight.
• Chen Shouyi endured the figure's attacks and struck back with overwhelming force, breaking the figure's hands and crushing his chest.
• Chen Shouyi recognized the figure as Xiao Changming when his shadowy disguise vanished.
• Xiao Changming began to plead, but Chen Shouyi slammed his head into the road and killed him.

Chen Shouyi reported Xiao Changming’s transformation to the authorities, and the military eventually confirmed that Xiao had become a demon. When the military moved to capture him, Xiao escaped with his wife, and Chen Shouyi warned that Lei Ruiyang was in grave danger pursuing him.

• Chen Shouyi visited the municipal government at night and reported his suspicions about Xiao Changming to the deputy mayor on duty.
• Four days later, Bai Xiaoling arrived with a lieutenant colonel, who told Chen Shouyi that Xiao Changming had become a demon after a scheme by a barbarian god.
• The lieutenant colonel explained that Xiao Changming had attacked an air force base, destroying thirty-eight fighter jets and killing or wounding more than a hundred soldiers.
• Chen Shouyi set out with the military to capture Xiao Changming, but gunfire broke out before they reached his villa.
• Chen Shouyi found Xiao Changming’s villa damaged and empty, then learned that Xiao had escaped through a wall with his wife and that Lei Ruiyang was pursuing them.
• Chen Shouyi urged the military to call Lei Ruiyang back, warning that Xiao Changming could kill him easily.

Chen Shouyi warned that Xiao Changming was too powerful for Lei Ruiyang, but Lei pursued him anyway while the military launched an armed helicopter to hunt them down. Xiao Changming struck Lei with a stolen bicycle, leaving Lei gravely wounded and collapsed in the street.

• Chen Shouyi warned the lieutenant colonel that Lei Ruiyang was in danger because Xiao Changming was too strong to pursue safely.
• The military boarded an armed transport helicopter to search for Xiao Changming, while Chen Shouyi prepared for a possible fight.
• Xiao Changming fled with his wife and told her that no one could kill them, while she recalled that he had died a month earlier.
• Lei Ruiyang caught up with Xiao Changming and accused him of betraying humanity to the Giant Beast.
• Xiao Changming hurled a stolen bicycle at Lei Ruiyang, crushing his chest and sending him crashing through pedestrians into a shop wall.
• Lei Ruiyang staggered back into the street, saw the massive hole in his chest, and collapsed.

Xiao Changming escaped Hedong with his wife and headed toward Dongning, while Chen Shouyi and the military failed to locate him. After Lei Ruiyang died from Xiao Changming's attack, Chen Shouyi was left as Hedong's only Martial Master; a signal flare then announced a possible sighting.

• Xiao Changming fled Hedong with his wife and hid in a passing box truck when a helicopter approached.
• Sun Ding's search team failed to find Xiao Changming, and Chen Shouyi explained that he had once encountered the fugitive indirectly.
• Bai Xiaoling told Chen Shouyi that Xiao Changming had killed Lei Ruiyang with one blow.
• Chen Shouyi remained at the military camp as Hedong organized a citywide search and realized he was the city's only Martial Master.
• Sun Ding received a signal that something had been spotted and ordered everyone to board the helicopter.

Xiao Changming massacred a town after killing his wife, then attacked the helicopters sent to find him. Chen Shouyi survived a crash landing and confronted Xiao Changming, who called himself the God of Hunting.

• Xiao Changming lost control, killed his wife, and slaughtered the people in a town, devouring thousands of souls.
• Xiao Changming hurled his wife's head at a military helicopter, destroying it, then changed into a handsome young man and prepared to leave.
• Chen Shouyi sensed danger aboard the second helicopter and realized Xiao Changming could attack it at low altitude.
• Xiao Changming struck the helicopter carrying Chen Shouyi and Sun Ding, forcing them to jump as it spun toward the ground.
• Chen Shouyi and four military warriors regrouped in the bloodied town, where Chen Shouyi found Xiao Changming beside a dead warrior.
• Xiao Changming identified himself to Chen Shouyi as the God of Hunting.

Chen Shouyi confronted the God of Hunting, who had possessed Xiao Changming, and fought him in his Giant Transformation. The god eventually withdrew, leaving Chen Shouyi alive but shaken and scrambling to cover his nakedness.

• The God of Hunting revealed himself through Xiao Changming and tried to recruit Chen Shouyi, then killed a military martial artist who defied him.
• Chen Shouyi fled, transformed into a giant, and attacked the pursuing god, but the god dodged his sword strike and knocked him through a concrete bollard.
• The God of Hunting offered Chen Shouyi another chance to submit, but Chen recognized that the god's Saint Descent was limited and charged him again.
• Chen Shouyi and the God of Hunting fought through the street and a building, with Chen enduring sword cuts and heavy blows while the god struggled to overcome his defenses.
• The God of Hunting abandoned the fight and walked away, and Chen waited before ending his Giant Transformation.
• Chen Shouyi discovered that the battle had left him naked, then found a dusty jacket in the ruins and tied it around his waist.

After surviving a devastating battle with the God of Hunting, Chen Shouyi reported the encounter to provincial intelligence officers and returned home exhausted. He found Shell Girl asleep under his quilt, fed her honey water, and she went back to sleep.

• Chen Shouyi dismissed his wounds as minor while Sun Ding and the surviving military martial artists searched the ruined area for survivors.
• Chen Shouyi ate rice from several houses, changed into clothes he found, and rejoined the group, which had recovered his bow and one injured survivor.
• The group returned to the safe zone with only six of the fifteen participants alive, and Chen Shouyi reported encountering the God of Hunting to provincial officials.
• Lu Chongwen and Wang Shaojia questioned Chen Shouyi about the god’s words and strength, and Chen Shouyi clarified that he had spent nearly a minute under attack without being able to fight back.
• Chen Shouyi arrived home at three in the morning, found Shell Girl asleep beneath his quilt, and gave her honey water before she curled up and went back to sleep.

After returning to Hedong City, Chen Shouyi reflected on humanity’s worsening wars and discovered that his transformation had barely depleted his energy. He warned his family about the escaped savage, learned of Chen Xingyue’s rapid progress, and saw that the authorities had omitted Xiao Changming’s death from the news.

• Chen Shouyi considered the toll of humanity’s conflicts, then found that his recent transformation had consumed almost none of the energy in his dantian.
• Chen Shouyi told Chen Dawei and Mother Chen that an invading savage had escaped and advised them to stay careful.
• Chen Xingyue told Chen Shouyi she could bench press 350 kilograms and was gaining more than ten kilograms of strength each month, and they agreed to spar.
• Chen Shouyi walked through a heavily guarded Hedong City and bought a newspaper that reported Lei Ruiyang’s death but said nothing about Xiao Changming.

Chen Shouyi trained in the Otherworld and grew concerned when Shell Girl began sleeping for unusually long stretches, eventually suspecting she was hibernating. A week later, Zhang Jianfeng offered him the directorship of the Third Affairs Investigation Bureau, but Chen Shouyi declined because he wanted to focus on cultivating.

• Chen Shouyi trained by repeatedly charging into a giant tree until it fell, while his body endured the impacts and recovered.
• Chen Shouyi woke Shell Girl with a warning about bad bugs, but she was too drowsy to stay awake and soon fell asleep again.
• Chen Shouyi suspected Shell Girl was hibernating, and over the following week she woke only every day or two, with her waking periods gradually growing longer.
• Zhang Jianfeng visited Chen Shouyi on behalf of the Provincial Organization Department and offered him the directorship of the Third Affairs Investigation Bureau.
• Chen Shouyi turned down the appointment, saying he did not have the time.