Chapter Summaries

After striking the Lord of Lightning, Chen Shouyi survived with most of his organs destroyed and used Faith Value to accelerate his healing. He emerged from the Space Channel to find the divine aura gone and the sky clearing, but he did not know for certain whether the danger was over.

• Chen Shouyi collapsed after his punch struck the Lord of Lightning and realized he had no strength left to stand.
• Chen Shouyi removed his armor and dug out his charred organs and dead tissue while slowly clearing the divine power from his wounds.
• The two Little Dots returned and fretted over Chen Shouyi as he struggled to recover.
• Chen Shouyi spent 200 Faith Value to improve Self-Healing, purge the remaining divine power, and regrow his organs.
• After eating and recovering enough to stand, Chen Shouyi left the two Little Dots behind and stepped through the Space Channel.
• Chen Shouyi found the sky clearing and the divine aura gone, then wondered whether it was over.

After the Barbarian God retreated, Chen Shouyi returned to the camp and told the leaders that the war was safe for now. He reunited with Chen Xingyue, who was relieved to see him alive but startled by how thin he had become.

• Chen Shouyi walked through the devastated landscape and told soldiers guarding the sealed Space Channel that the Barbarian God had retreated.
• The evacuation camp prepared to move to a defensible valley, while Zhang Simin and Academician Fang discussed the journey and the land's suitability for crops.
• A soldier told the camp leaders that Chen Shouyi had returned and announced the victory, prompting Zhang Simin to go look for him.
• Chen Shouyi searched through the crowded vehicles until Chen Xingyue spotted him and ran over in tears.
• Chen Xingyue noticed Chen Shouyi had grown extremely thin, and he said he would recover in a few days.

After wounding the Lord of Lightning, Chen Shouyi left the military base with his family and learned that the city believed the war was over. A mysterious man then warned him that the weakened Lord of Lightning could recover and become Tamu’s supreme god.

• Zhang Simin asked Chen Shouyi about the fighting, and Chen said he had wounded the Lord of Lightning, forcing him to retreat.
• After the nuclear land mines at the tunnel entrance were removed, Chen Shouyi drove away from the base with his family as Zhonghai City celebrated the Barbarian God’s retreat.
• Chen Xingyue asked whether Chen Shouyi had driven the Barbarian God away, and he confirmed it while privately recognizing the peace was temporary.
• Feeling intense hunger, Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel, saw that his strength had fallen by 3.4 points, and ate several pounds of True God Meat.
• The mysterious man who had once prophesied humanity’s danger appeared and told Chen Shouyi that the Lord of Lightning was weak but could recover if given time.

After returning home, Chen Shouyi used his willpower to clean the house and slept for more than a day while recovering from his ordeal. Once awake, he ate, went for a walk, and reflected on how dangerous Great Divine Power could become.

• Chen Shouyi returned home and used his willpower to sweep the dust throughout the house into the trash can, astonishing his family.
• Chen Xingyue explained to Mother Chen that Chen Shouyi's cleaning ability was willpower and revealed that he could fly too.
• Chen Shouyi found the telephone lines cut, fed and bathed the two little creatures, then fell into a deep sleep from exhaustion.
• Chen Shouyi woke the following afternoon, ate True God Meat, and learned from Chen Xingyue that his family had stayed home while the streets filled with people after curfew ended.
• Mother Chen served Chen Shouyi porridge despite his protests, and he went to the bathroom before heading out for a walk.
• Seeing workers repair the electrical grid damaged by Lord of Lightning's magnetic storm, Chen Shouyi considered the threat posed by Great Divine Power and the Supreme God.

After recovering from his injuries, Chen Shouyi traveled to a remote island to test the Lightning Spear taken from the Lord of Lightning. He overcame the deity’s imprint and claimed the weapon, then flew back with the two Little Dots.

• A senior official from Zhonghai City visited Chen Shouyi, and the city remained without electricity as repairs dragged on.
• After his body recovered, Chen Shouyi flew to a remote island to deal with the restless Lightning Spear.
• Chen Shouyi tested the spear’s lightning power and found that its length could change, making it suitable for his Giant Transformation.
• Chen Shouyi clashed with the Lord of Lightning’s imprint four times and destroyed it, refining the Lightning Spear for himself.
• Chen Shouyi stored the weapon, called over the two Little Dots, and flew back.

Chen Shouyi hosted Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing after they visited, then gave them bags of Savage God Meat to take home. The two accepted the unexpected gift despite their initial reluctance.

• Chen Shouyi welcomed Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing and ordered them a meal at a government guesthouse.
• Zhu Xueqing asked whether Chen Shouyi had driven off the Lord of Lightning, but he dismissed the rumor as unbelievable.
• Chen Shouyi congratulated Luo Jingwen on becoming a Legend, and the three talked about cultivation.
• Chen Shouyi invited Luo Jingwen and Zhu Xueqing to his home, hinting that he had a gift for them.
• Chen Shouyi brought them more than twenty pounds of Savage God Meat each, and Luo Jingwen offered to carry Zhu Xueqing's share.

At a summit, Great Xia Nation’s president revealed the enormous gap between Chen Shouyi and the Lord of Lightning. After weeks of training, Chen Shouyi discovered an unusually dense Faith Domain at a Guanyin temple and suspected something was wrong.

• At the leaders’ summit, Joseph and Lucy Nation pressed Great Xia Nation to take responsibility for humanity, while its president cited its overseas forces.
• Joseph asked how strong Chen Shouyi was compared with the Lord of Lightning, and the president said the gap was enormous.
• Over the following weeks, Chen Shouyi trained in the snow mountains, slowly improved his attributes, and invested Faith Value in Control Atmosphere.
• Chen Shouyi took an unfamiliar route home and sensed a dense power of faith surrounding a village.
• Chen Shouyi followed the incense to a Guanyin temple, wondered how it could have a Faith Domain, and heard a sinister voice ask what he was doing there.

Chen Shouyi discovered that a barbaric fertility god had infiltrated villages by posing as Guanyin who grants children, spreading its Faith Domains unnoticed. After the government found the cult had affected up to two hundred thousand people across three townships, Chen arrived to take charge of the response and declined a meeting.

• Chen Shouyi visited a village temple and recognized that the goddess posing as Guanyin was a barbaric god associated with fertility.
• Chen Shouyi found similar Faith Domains in nearby villages and realized the god was spreading its faith covertly through fertility worship.
• Chen Shouyi spotted a new-style Guanyin statue at an incense shop, bought it, and threw it away before reporting the situation to the city chief's office.
• The city government investigated and found the cult had affected three townships and up to one or two hundred thousand people.
• Chen Shouyi arrived at Changqiao Town with Bai Xiaoling, greeted officers and officials, and told them to hold their meeting without him.

Chen Shouyi led the government campaign to destroy temples of the Shoe Cult, easily repelled the barbarian god’s remote attack, and watched the local Faith Domain dissipate. As the temple purge continued, Zhao Song linked the god to Southeast Asia’s God of Fertility and reported that its territory was suffering famine from a surge in births.

• Zhao Song reported that preparations were complete, and Chen Shouyi ordered the temple-clearing operation to begin.
• Soldiers warned villagers against the Shoe Cult, while Chen Shouyi told Bai Xiaoling to stay back but allowed her to accompany him.
• Military martial artists toppled a Divine Statue, provoking the barbarian god to threaten divine punishment and frighten the gathered villagers.
• Chen Shouyi used his will to block the god’s weakened remote projection, ending the oppressive aura and causing the local Faith Domain to dissipate.
• Chen Shouyi ordered the government to strengthen its propaganda as the temple-clearing operation spread across nearby villages.
• Zhao Song said intelligence linked the barbarian god to Southeast Asia’s God of Fertility and reported that excessive births had caused famine in its territory.

Chen Shouyi returned home after clearing temples, spent the night training his strength while caring for Shell Girl and Little Red Dot, and read about the changing military situation the next morning. Meanwhile, European military experts Fischer and Aletto began their three-year assignment in the Great Xia Nation, and Fischer reluctantly studied Chinese as their train departed.

• Bai Xiaoling left Chen Shouyi’s home, and Mother Chen and Chen Dawei discussed whether she might make a suitable daughter-in-law for him.
• Shell Girl and Little Red Dot fought over who was fiercer, then both asked Chen Shouyi for food before he resumed honing his strength.
• Chen Shouyi read that the Great Xia Nation planned to demobilize another twenty million soldiers as its martial artists grew more numerous and its defenses strengthened.
• At Berlin International Railway Station, Fischer said goodbye to his wife before boarding a train to the Great Xia Nation for a three-year assignment.
• Fischer met Aletto on the train, learned that Aletto had volunteered for the assignment, and began studying Chinese despite resenting being sent abroad.

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.