Chapter Summaries

Chen Shouyi learned to run across the sea and rescued Shell Girl from a carnivorous fish. Elsewhere, a powerful creature beside a Barbarian Tribe considered demanding more tribute from the people it protected.

• Chen Shouyi tried running across the sea, sank after thirty steps, and adjusted his technique until he could move swiftly over the water.
• Chen Shouyi practiced carrying his backpack across the sea, then ate demigod meat and fed Shell Girl divine blood.
• Shell Girl taunted Chen Shouyi while flying above the sea, but a carnivorous fish lunged at her and Chen Shouyi killed it with his Long Sword.
• Shell Girl flew onto Chen Shouyi’s shoulder and clung to him, frightened by the fish attack.
• A huge wolf-like creature that demanded daily prey from a Barbarian Tribe considered increasing its tribute after eyeing a young barbarian.

Chen Shouyi found a Divine Creature on a Small Island and killed it while transformed into a giant, then persuaded the terrified Barbarians to pray to him. After roasting the creature, he gained a slight increase in Perception, but his innate ability remained unchanged.

• Chen Shouyi hid Shell Girl and transformed into a seventeen-meter giant, terrifying the Divine Creature and the Barbarians.
• The giant wolf fled, but Chen Shouyi caught it and crushed its head.
• Chen Shouyi told the kneeling Barbarians to believe in him and pray morning and evening, then left the valley with the creature's corpse.
• Chen Shouyi canceled his transformation in the forest and roasted the Divine Creature while the World Tree absorbed its divine nature.
• Chen Shouyi's Perception rose from 15.4 to 15.6, but his innate ability did not change, so he hoped to find more Small Islands.

Chen Shouyi searched the islands for Divine Creatures and followers, gaining more than a thousand followers while avoiding a large island that might shelter a demigod. Shell Girl sensed a powerful presence there, leaving Chen Shouyi wary of the danger ahead.

• Chen Shouyi found no signs of life on five Small Islands and spent the night roasting meat while a Nature Spirit's mist retreated from him.
• Chen Shouyi resumed his search, crushed a Giant Beast and tore a green-skinned giant apart, then used threats and inducements to gain followers among the barbarians.
• Chen Shouyi counted more than a thousand new followers over two days and continued across the sea after choosing not to approach a large island with a substantial tribe.
• Shell Girl warned Chen Shouyi that a fierce bad guy was on the large island, and Chen Shouyi grew more vigilant because he trusted her unusual intuition.

On the fourth day in the other world, Chen Shouyi found a large tribe and confronted its dragon-like divine creature in a lake. He defeated and killed it, leaving the tribe’s fate unstated.

• Chen Shouyi spotted a large lakeside tribe surrounded by a Faith Domain, but waited two hours without seeing its totem emerge.
• Chen Shouyi ate Demigod Meat, sent Shell Girl away to hide, transformed, and charged toward the lake.
• The silver-scaled divine creature emerged and attacked Chen Shouyi with extreme-cold breath, but Air Lock stopped its attacks.
• Chen Shouyi crossed the shallow lake, grabbed the fleeing creature by its tail, and repeatedly smashed it against the ice.
• Chen Shouyi discovered he had beaten the divine creature to death and torn off its tail.

Chen Shouyi recovered from his soul injury after the World Tree absorbed a Divine Creature’s Faith Power, then spent most of his Faith Value advancing Giant Battle Body. When strange auroras and a powerful energy appeared near the giant island, Shell Girl warned him that the bad guy had become even fiercer.

• The World Tree absorbed the Divine Creature’s Faith Power, recovered, and helped Chen Shouyi’s body and Perception return to health.
• Chen Shouyi discovered that his Faith Value had risen to 251.3, despite the World Tree absorbing the Faith Power.
• Chen Shouyi spent 200 Faith Value and advanced Giant Battle Body from Intermediate to Advanced.
• Chen Shouyi saw eerie auroras and sensed powerful energy near the giant island.
• Shell Girl flew to Chen Shouyi’s shoulder and urged him to run, warning that the bad guy had gotten even fiercer.

A Giant Beast began apotheosis as Chen Shouyi sensed the threat and prepared to flee. After turning back from the sea, he left the island without knowing whether the creature had become a demigod.

• The Giant Beast, driven by a sense of impending death, burned its accumulated Faith Power and kindled the Divine Fire to begin rebuilding its body.
• Chen Shouyi watched the energy surge fade, abandoned his plan to investigate, and decided to leave the island under cover of night.
• Chen Shouyi packed his belongings and set out from the cave with Shell Girl.
• At the shore, Chen Shouyi saw a dead fish surrounded by smaller fish and grew uneasy.
• Chen Shouyi reconsidered crossing the sea, realizing he would be unable to fight effectively there, and turned back.

Chen Shouyi sensed that a mysterious god was destroying his Barbarian followers and prepared to face it as it approached the island. The newly deified Eternal Sun confronted him, and Chen Shouyi advanced in giant form, ready to fight.

• Chen Shouyi spent the night eating demigod meat and drove away beasts drawn to its smell.
• The next day, Chen Shouyi felt his Faith Lines snapping as his Barbarian followers rapidly dwindled.
• Shell Girl warned Chen Shouyi that the mysterious god was coming, then hid in a crevice as a storm began.
• The Eternal Sun arrived over the sea, confident in its new godhood, and spotted Chen Shouyi approaching through the forest.
• Chen Shouyi ate the demigod meat he had left, uprooted a tree as a weapon, and advanced in his faster, stronger giant form.

Chen Shouyi fought the newly ascended demigod Giant Beast, whose speed and aerial mobility let it repeatedly evade his attacks and wound him. He tricked it into closing in, immobilized it with Air Lock, and finally seized it in his hands.

• The Giant Beast landed and attacked Chen Shouyi, biting his hand and neck while dodging his counterstrikes.
• Chen Shouyi hurled trees and splinters at the Giant Beast, but it continued to evade him and inflict wounds.
• As the Giant Beast charged at his throat, Chen Shouyi feigned weakness and waited for it to come close.
• Chen Shouyi solidified the air around the Giant Beast with Air Lock, grabbed it, and crushed its body.

Chen Shouyi killed the Giant Beast after it wounded him with a corrosive energy blast, then found Shell Girl trapped in a narrow crack in the rock. He freed her and reassured her that the danger was over.

• Chen Shouyi used Giant Transformation to overpower the Giant Beast, but it struck his chest with a corrosive energy blast.
• Chen Shouyi smashed the Giant Beast's head and killed it, then returned to his normal size as his wounds began to heal.
• Chen Shouyi remembered the demigod meat swelling his stomach, hurried into the bushes, and relieved himself before finding his sword.
• Chen Shouyi searched for Little Dot and discovered Shell Girl wedged inside a narrow crack in the rock.
• Chen Shouyi pried the rock apart, freed the scraped-up Shell Girl, and told her he had killed the bad guy.

After killing a demigod in a head-on battle, Chen Shouyi brought its corpse to the cave and began salvaging its meat and horns. As he carried meat back through the rain, a powerful wave of dizziness struck him, leaving his condition uncertain.

• Chen Shouyi returned to the battlefield and reflected on how he had defeated the demigod, realizing that his agility was a weakness against nimble opponents.
• Chen Shouyi transformed to carry the enormous God Corpse back to the cave while Shell Girl followed at a cautious distance.
• Chen Shouyi warmed Shell Girl by the fire, checked his Status Panel, and saw that his will had risen while his Faith Value had fallen.
• Chen Shouyi went back out to cut meat from the demigod’s corpse and remove its horns as keepsakes.
• Chen Shouyi carried a chunk of meat toward the cave, then staggered as a strong wave of dizziness clouded his thoughts.

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.