Chapter Summaries

Chen Shouyi returned to Hedong City, visited his parents’ restaurant, and called the president to exchange the God of Light’s corpse for True God meat. The president revealed that the country had preserved residue from a Great Divine Power god killed twenty-three years earlier, leaving Chen Shouyi with an unexpected chance to obtain it.

• Chen Shouyi visited his parents at their busy restaurant, where customers recognized him as a renowned powerhouse.
• Chen Shouyi returned home exhausted and regretted leaving the God of Light’s humanoid corpse behind.
• Chen Shouyi called the president and asked to exchange the corpse for twenty tons of same-level True God meat.
• The president said the God of Light’s corpse had already been transported to the capital and confirmed its Medium Divine Power level.
• The president revealed that the country had sealed away residue from a Great Divine Power god killed twenty-three years earlier.

Chen Shouyi increased his Self-Healing talent and returned home, where Chen Xingyue noticed his newly changed presence. Scouts discovered the God of Light’s stronghold deserted and its statue crumbling, while news that the God of Light had died abruptly ended Joseph’s speech in Berlin.

• Chen Shouyi spent 200 Faith Value to raise Self-Healing to Intermediate 20%.
• Chen Shouyi told Chen Xingyue not to wear dresses, then admitted he had recently grown stronger.
• Gipson and Bill scouted the God of Light’s territory and found an empty city littered with dead heretic soldiers.
• Gipson recognized the God of Light’s Divine Statue in the plaza among densely gathered corpses.
• An assistant told Joseph that the God of Light had been confirmed dead, and Joseph ended his speech and called for a cabinet meeting.

After Chen Shouyi’s killing of the God of Light shook the world, the Great Xia Nation received the preserved remains of a Great Divine Power. Chen Shouyi took the golden paste to the Space Channel and began cultivating after discovering its powerful effects.

• Foreign governments learned that the God of Light had been killed, and the European Alliance Daily reported that humanity had entered a new era.
• European Alliance Prime Minister Joseph praised Chen Shouyi and offered him head-of-state treatment if he joined the Alliance, while Lucy Nation highlighted its contribution to the battle.
• Chen Shouyi accepted about three and a half tons of the God of Light’s processed remains and stored the sealed containers in his space.
• Chen Shouyi went to the Space Channel and let Shell Girl taste the golden paste; she eagerly ate a spoonful.
• Chen Shouyi ate the paste, felt its intense effects, and stripped down to cultivate.

Chen Shouyi’s cultivation dramatically improved his strength but left him injured, and he worried about the threat posed by Great Divine Power gods. After dinner with Song Tingting, he rode her home, while she quietly mourned the growing distance between them.

• Chen Shouyi completed an intense cultivation session, raising his strength and constitution while his injuries left him unable to train again until he healed.
• Chen Shouyi spent Faith Value to improve his self-healing, but it still took three hours for his injuries to recover.
• Chen Shouyi used Restore to repair his damaged bicycle before Song Tingting arrived at his home for dinner.
• Chen Shouyi’s family welcomed Song Tingting, and Chen Shouyi reassured her that they were still friends.
• Chen Shouyi rode Song Tingting home, and she cried as she watched soldiers salute him and felt that he had become unreachable.

Chen Shouyi tested whether his blood could harm other creatures and learned that it killed a desert lizard when swallowed. At breakfast, Chen Xingyue discovered that an international ranking named Chen Shouyi the world’s strongest person, leaving him to accept the recognition with modesty.

• Chen Shouyi returned home before curfew, disappointing Mother Chen, who had hoped he would spend more time with Song Tingting.
• As Chen Shouyi’s self-healing improved, he tested a drop of his blood on a desert lizard in the other world.
• The lizard swallowed the blood and died, so Chen Shouyi realized his blood was dangerous if consumed and covered the body with sand.
• Bai Xiaoling brought Chen Shouyi a special issue of CBB, and Chen Xingyue read that the global power rankings placed “godchen” first.
• Bai Xiaoling explained that foreigners used the nickname for Chief Chen, and Chen Shouyi admitted it might be him.

Chen Shouyi encountered a Flame God’s avatar while cultivating in the Otherworld and fought back against the god’s attacks. The chapter ended as Chen Shouyi grew enormous and swung a bone club at the Flame God.

• Chen Shouyi read a newspaper ranking powerful fighters, dismissed it as unreliable, and stored it with his other newspapers.
• Shell Girl warned Chen Shouyi that a dangerous figure was approaching, and he hid in a cave before sensing a barbarian god’s arrival.
• The Flame God appeared as a fiery avatar, called Chen Shouyi an “evil creature,” and attacked him with divine techniques.
• Chen Shouyi resisted the Flame God’s flames and death ray, burned Faith Value, and charged toward the deity.
• The Flame God realized Chen Shouyi was stronger than expected, just as Chen Shouyi grew larger and swung a bone club at him.

Chen Shouyi defeated the Flame God's Avatar, then fled with Shell Girl when the Flame God's true body descended. He raced away from the Space Channel toward a forest, pursued by overwhelming divine power.

• Chen Shouyi's bone club struck the Flame God's Avatar through his Divine Fire, destroying one of the Avatar's arms and leaving it nearly transparent.
• Chen Shouyi's next charge extinguished the flames and killed the Flame God's Avatar, but he realized it had not been the deity's true body.
• Chen Shouyi rushed to Hollow Mountain, fearing Shell Girl had been burned, and found her frightened but unharmed inside.
• The Flame God's true body descended, and Chen Shouyi fled with Shell Girl rather than endanger Hedong City and Great Xia Nation.
• Chen Shouyi ran across the desert at more than twice the speed of sound and disappeared into a forest as divine power pursued him.

Chen Shouyi fled the enraged Flame God after injuring his avatar, using his armor to survive the god’s pursuit. He escaped into the sea, where the Flame God refused to follow.

• The Flame God emerged in his true body and incinerated the forest while searching for Chen Shouyi.
• Chen Shouyi broke from his underground hiding place, pretended to surrender, and ran toward a nearby sea.
• The Flame God saw through Chen Shouyi’s deception and attacked, but Chen Shouyi dodged and struck back with a bone club.
• The Flame God used Death Gaze, and Chen Shouyi activated his armor to shield himself and sprint toward the sea.
• Chen Shouyi reached the ocean and plunged beneath the water, while the Flame God scorched the sea but did not pursue him into it.

After surviving the Flame God’s Divine Fire, Chen Shouyi recovered on the coast and decided to attack the god’s Faith Domain. As he approached, the Flame God appeared to challenge him, while a nearby tribe began its blood-sacrifice ritual.

• Chen Shouyi escaped the sea, discovered how badly the Divine Fire had injured him, and spent hours removing its lingering power while Shell Girl recovered beside him.
• Chen Shouyi healed over three days as the Flame God watched from afar, then sent Shell Girl to hide and flew toward the Flame God’s Faith Domain.
• A Flame Giant formed from the Faith Domain and roared at Chen Shouyi, who sneered and plunged toward the region.
• At a temple along a fertile river plain, barbarians held their five-day ritual and prepared to sacrifice two tribesmen for separate offenses.

Chen Shouyi destroyed five tribes devoted to Flame God, provoking the god before retreating to the coast. Trapped in the other world, he stayed by the shore, trained, and improved his Natural Healing while waiting for a chance to return home.

• Chen Shouyi demolished tribes along the river, killing thousands of Flame God's followers and crushing their altar and Divine Fire.
• Flame God noticed the destruction and threatened Chen Shouyi, who taunted him before fleeing to the coast.
• Chen Shouyi found that the coastal tribes had abandoned their homes and migrated away, so he built a hut and remained by the shore.
• Chen Shouyi trained and played with Shell Girl while Flame God watched him, preventing him from straying inland.
• After ten days in the other world, Chen Shouyi checked his improved attributes and spent a thousand Faith Value to raise Natural Healing to 40%.

Chen Shouyi devised a way to escape the Flame God's watch by digging a concealed tunnel deep underground and beneath the sea. He emerged more than twenty kilometers off course and hurried toward the Space Channel.

• Chen Shouyi used a compass and an iron shelter to hide his preparations from the Flame God’s sight and perception.
• Chen Shouyi dug a tunnel five hundred meters underground, then secretly extended it toward the Space Channel each night.
• On the fifth night, Chen Shouyi pretended to rage at the Flame God, crushed the iron shelter, and disappeared into the sea.
• The Flame God searched the surrounding waters but could not find Chen Shouyi, and He refused to dive into the dark sea.
• Chen Shouyi and Shell Girl crawled out of a tunnel beneath the ocean floor, blocked and camouflaged its entrance, and set off toward the Space Channel.

After returning from the Otherworld, Chen Shouyi warned Jiangnan Province that a god with Medium Divine Power could emerge through the passage, prompting plans to evacuate the surrounding region. He reunited with his family and learned that the European Alliance embassy had invited him to visit.

• Chen Shouyi returned to the Space Channel and reported the threat of a god with Medium Divine Power to the Provincial High Official.
• Chen Shouyi returned home and reassured his family by claiming he had gotten lost in the Otherworld.
• The President approved an evacuation of areas within 150 kilometers of the passage and ordered preparations for a possible Nuclear Strike.
• Chen Shouyi learned that Hedong City would be evacuated and its buildings demolished, then spent the evening with Shell Girl and practiced Entering Tranquility to Refine the Self.
• Bai Xiaoling visited Chen Shouyi after hearing he had returned and told him the European Alliance embassy had invited him to visit.

Chen Shouyi received an invitation from the European Alliance’s Prime Minister, Joseph Sabeda, to visit with his family and asked his family whether he should go. His parents left the decision to him, while Chen Xingyue eagerly asked to come along.

• Bai Xiaoling brought Chen Shouyi the European Alliance’s invitation and Joseph’s handwritten letter after the government reviewed the request and decided to let him choose.
• Chen Shouyi read Joseph’s letter, which praised his deeds and invited him and his family to visit the European Alliance.
• Chen Shouyi wondered whether he should travel abroad, partly because his Faith Value was stretched thin and the European Alliance was far away.
• Chen Shouyi showed the invitation and letter to his family and asked what they thought.
• Chen Xingyue asked to accompany Chen Shouyi, while their parents declined because they had to run the restaurant and felt uncomfortable attending a diplomatic event.

Chen Shouyi prepared for a delayed state visit to the European Alliance while Hedong began evacuating, and he trained to strengthen his body after realizing how badly he fared against the God of Light. By evening, evacuation news had spread through the city, and Chen Shouyi overheard workers debating whether the threat was real and praising him from afar.

• Chen Xingyue persuaded Chen Shouyi to take her on his state visit, though he regretted agreeing before she could leave for Hedong’s evacuation.
• Chen Shouyi gave Shell Girl her collected shells after she woke from a long sleep.
• Chen Shouyi practiced the fourth optimized Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening and Explosive Force, then considered his repeated defeats against the God of Light and checked his improved Status Panel.
• Chen Shouyi learned that the evacuation had begun and saw Steam Trucks carrying heavy machinery out of the area.
• Chen Shouyi overheard female workers discussing the evacuation and praising Chief Chen, then felt relieved when he realized they did not personally recognize him.

After Hedong was designated a military exclusion zone, Chen Shouyi and his family evacuated to Zhonghai, where local officials welcomed them to their new home. Mother Chen considered reconnecting with her estranged brothers now that she had returned to her hometown.

• Chen Shouyi learned that his family would leave for Zhonghai and invited his aunt's family to come, but his aunt declined because her workplace had arranged housing.
• Military warriors helped Chen Shouyi's family move, and the convoy left Hedong at eight o'clock.
• During the journey, Chen Shouyi felt sad as he watched Hedong recede, while Chen Dawei suggested that Mother Chen visit her brothers in Zhonghai.
• The family arrived in ruined Zhonghai, and Mother Chen agreed that it would be good to see her brothers after so many years.
• Deputy governor Zhang Feng welcomed Chen Shouyi and his family to their villa and then tactfully took his leave.

Chen Shouyi asked Bai Xiaoling to find information on nearby Space Channels and agreed to visit the European Alliance. Meanwhile, his parents visited Mother Chen’s estranged younger brother in Zhonghai, where they revealed that Chen Shouyi was the famous Chief Chen.

• Chen Shouyi told Bai Xiaoling to gather information on nearby Space Channels and arrange a visit to the European Alliance through the Foreign Ministry.
• Mother Chen and Chen Dawei visited her younger brother Jiang Qihui after seventeen years without contact.
• Jiang Qihui showed them his daughter’s photo album and asked about his nephew’s name.
• Jiang Qihui recognized Chen Shouyi’s name in a newspaper article about the martial arts grandmaster settling in Zhonghai.
• Mother Chen proudly revealed that Chief Chen was her son, leaving Jiang Qihui stunned.

Chen Shouyi inspected nearby Space Channels and chose a remote, frigid mountain channel as his base after finding no Faith Domain nearby. That evening, Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials arrived to discuss his upcoming visit to the European Alliance and its diplomatic etiquette.

• Chen Shouyi inspected the nearest Space Channel, found a true god's Faith Domain nearby, and rejected it.
• Chen Shouyi surveyed a second channel in the mountains, saw no Faith Domain within a hundred kilometers, and chose it as his base.
• Chen Shouyi dug a shelter in the snow and ice before returning home at dusk.
• Chen Shouyi's parents told him they had visited his uncles, while Shell Girl read a picture book and asked whether she was cuter than a rabbit.
• Chen Xingyue told Chen Shouyi that Deputy Chief Zhang and Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials had arrived.
• Vice Minister Fang Xiangqian and Director Ren Yuping met Chen Shouyi to discuss his European Alliance visit and diplomatic etiquette.

Chen Shouyi and Chen Xingyue traveled to the capital to prepare for their visit to the European Alliance, where Chen Shouyi attracted attention from fans aboard the plane. The delegation departed Great Xia Nation, and Chen Shouyi began signing autographs as Chen Xingyue watched.

• Chen Shouyi told Chen Xingyue they would travel to the capital before leaving for the European Alliance, and she eagerly agreed to go.
• Chen Shouyi and Chen Xingyue flew to the capital, where Chen Xingyue felt nervous about the high-profile visit.
• Chen Shouyi and Chen Xingyue had custom clothes made and met with government officials before the delegation departed the next morning.
• Chen Shouyi learned that Fang Xiangqian and a Renren Daily interview team were accompanying the large delegation, and he allowed the reporters to come.
• A flight attendant asked Chen Shouyi for an autograph, then collapsed weakly after receiving it.
• Other young women on the plane asked Chen Shouyi for autographs, and he told them to come one at a time while Chen Xingyue watched.

Chen Shouyi arrived in Berlin to a lavish welcome from the European Alliance and was greeted by Prime Minister Joseph. As the crowds’ attention raised his Faith Value, he improved his Self-Healing ability and planned to strengthen Control Atmosphere so he could fly in his giant form.

• Chen Shouyi gave autographs to the passengers on the transport plane while Fang Xiangqian praised his handwriting.
• Prime Minister Joseph and his wife welcomed Chen Shouyi and Chen Xingyue at the Berlin airport with a military ceremony.
• The convoy drove through crowds of European Alliance women who pleaded with Chen Shouyi to stay, marry, or become king.
• Chen Shouyi saw his Faith Value rising and spent three thousand points to raise Self-Healing (Advanced) from 40% to 70%.
• Remembering that his giant form could not fly, Chen Shouyi decided to improve Control Atmosphere so he could walk on air.

Chen Shouyi arrived in the European Alliance with Chen Xingyue and attended a press conference, where he revealed that Chen's Cultivation Method could not make practitioners as powerful as him. The chapter ended with him explaining that he had recently improved the method.

• Chen Xingyue followed Chen Shouyi into the hotel suite, delighted by the European Alliance Prime Minister's warm welcome.
• Fang Xiangqian told Chen Shouyi that the Prime Minister had invited him and Chen Xingyue to lunch, but Chen Shouyi declined and agreed to attend the scheduled press conference.
• Chen Shouyi freed the Shell Girl, then tested his healing by cutting his finger with the Shadow Sword and watching the wound heal within minutes.
• At the press conference, Prime Minister Joseph praised humanity's resilience and thanked Chen Shouyi for his contributions.
• Chen Shouyi told reporters that practicing Chen's Cultivation Method would not let them reach his level, then added that he had recently improved the method.