Chapter Summaries

As Zhonghai recovered and Chen Shouyi kept to his cultivation, he discovered that his will could sense acquaintances at a distance and influence the world around him. He left the chapter demonstrating this power by turning his snow-covered yard green as if spring had arrived.

• Chen Shouyi teased Chen Xingyue about dating, and she said any suitor should at least be a Martial Master.
• Zhang Miaomiao brought Chen Shouyi financial reports, explaining that his investments had grown but their profits had been reinvested instead of paid out as dividends.
• After Zhang Miaomiao left, Chen Shouyi used his blessing and sensed her from afar, then tried the ability on Bai Xiaoling and Song Tingting.
• Chen Shouyi discovered that he could sense acquaintances without using a blessing, though his perception weakened with distance and failed to reach Zhu Xueqing in the capital.
• Chen Shouyi called a sparrow into his hand and used his will to melt the snow and make grass grow across his yard.

Chen Shouyi traveled to Heijiang Province after a barbarian attack on Tuohua City raised fears of a Barbarian God’s involvement. The army had largely routed the barbarians, and Chen arrived at the command post to assess the situation.

• Chen Shouyi went to the Otherworld without the hibernating Little Dots and endured the snowy mountains’ extreme cold with his enhanced Self-Healing ability.
• A female officer told Chen Shouyi that more than two hundred thousand barbarians had attacked Tuohua City in Heijiang Province and might be preparing for a Barbarian God’s attack.
• Zhang Zhaohua waited in the bitter cold at a command post near Tuohua City while the army reported that it had driven most barbarians toward Gourd Mountain with few human casualties.
• Zhang Zhaohua ordered the army to slow its advance, evacuate nearby residents, and ensure troops and civilians had enough warmth and supplies.
• Chen Shouyi arrived by helicopter, and Zhang Zhaohua welcomed him before Chen asked about the situation.

Lost in the mountains after the Heavenly Fire scattered their people, Little Filo and the surviving barbarians struggled to find food and shelter. At the mountain’s edge, Chen Shouyi ordered the surrounding army to withdraw, saying the soldiers would be no use when the time came.

• Little Filo, Bamor, and Lota killed a small wild beast and secretly ate it because they expected the others to take any food they brought back.
• The priest and warriors selected aging barbarians for sacrifice, and a warrior killed Lota when he tried to flee.
• The remaining barbarians ate the sacrificed clansmen, and Little Filo realized Bamor might be chosen next.
• Chen Shouyi inspected the military camps surrounding the mountains and learned about the roughly 580,000 soldiers stationed there.
• Chen Shouyi ordered the soldiers to pull back because they would be no use when the time came.

On a bitter winter night, Chen Shouyi searched the snow-covered mountains for the Space Channel but found only scattered barbarian tracks and waited for a safer chance to act. In Tam World, the God of Winter’s ambition was revealed, and by dawn heavy snowfall threatened to disrupt the army’s encirclement.

• Chen Shouyi searched the mountains from above, killed several barbarians, and failed to locate the Space Channel before returning to his tent.
• Chen Shouyi sent away a female orderly who brought hot water and went to sleep, deciding not to risk a fight while nearby civilians remained unevacuated.
• The God of Winter lay in its Divine Kingdom’s ice cave, and its black eyes opened as it called something useless.
• Chen Shouyi woke before dawn to find waist-deep snow and watched soldiers clear the roads.
• Chen Shouyi worried that the snowfall would make it difficult for the army to enter the mountains and maintain the encirclement.

Chen Shouyi followed a trace of divine power into the mountains and confronted the God of Winter. After enduring its freezing breath and attacks, he crushed the giant wolf’s neck, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Chen Shouyi remembered Zhang Xiaoyue and then sensed a source of divine power beyond the military camp.
• Chen Shouyi walked through the snow toward the mountains, and several barbarians collapsed dead as he passed.
• The God of Winter attacked Chen Shouyi with enormous ice balls and boasted that gods were immortal.
• Chen Shouyi challenged the God of Winter and raced toward it as soldiers prepared for battle.
• The God of Winter froze Chen Shouyi with its icy breath, but Chen Shouyi broke free, grew larger, and caught the wolf after smashing its jaw.
• Chen Shouyi seized the God of Winter by the throat and crushed its neck.

Chen Shouyi quickly killed the God of Winter at the front line and returned to Zhonghai, where he reunited with Shell Girl and Little Red Dot. That evening, Zhang Xiaoyue read his bestselling book and reflected on how far he had risen since they knew each other in Dongning.

• Chen Shouyi shattered the God of Winter's head and crushed its body, killing the barbarian god.
• Zhou Chenglong learned the battle was over and heard that Chen Shouyi had already left the front line.
• Chen Shouyi returned home and reunited with Shell Girl and Little Red Dot, giving each of them a second-grade math book.
• Zhang Xiaoyue read The Path of Martial Arts at Zhonghai Industrial University and wondered whether Chen Shouyi still remembered her.

Chen Shouyi attended the opening ceremony of Zhonghai’s second Martial Artist assessment center, then left to walk through the city. He commissioned a tailor to make hundreds of outfits for his figurines before spotting a familiar figure in the crowd.

• Chen Shouyi arrived at the ceremony, greeted the officials and martial artists, and politely admitted he did not know Zhang Anlu.
• Chen Shouyi, the mayor, and Zhang Anlu presided over the ribbon-cutting, and Chen Shouyi read a prepared speech.
• Chen Shouyi asked Bai Xiaoling to let him walk home and give herself the day off.
• Chen Shouyi commissioned a tailor to make one hundred outfits each for two figurines, offering five hundred yuan per set and paying a deposit.
• Chen Shouyi noticed a familiar woman flicker past in the crowd and disappear.

Chen Shouyi reunited with Zhang Xiaoyue after three years apart and learned she was studying at Zhonghai Industrial University. Though she felt intimidated by his status and tried to keep her distance, he took her to a movie, where they watched a recording of his own speech.

• Chen Shouyi approached Zhang Xiaoyue and Zhou Min, and his intimidating presence sent Wu Wenbin away.
• Chen Shouyi introduced himself as Zhang Xiaoyue's boyfriend, and Zhou Min recognized him as Chief Chen.
• Chen Shouyi explained why he had left years earlier, and Zhang Xiaoyue asked whether his family had been safe.
• Chen Shouyi took Zhang Xiaoyue to a movie theater after Zhou Min declined to join them.
• Chen Shouyi and Zhang Xiaoyue watched a recording of his speech, and she giggled at his awkward reaction.

Chen Shouyi and Zhang Xiaoyue grew closer during their reunion, while he received six tons of meat paste from two beings with Great Divine Power. Their relationship continued to develop, and the chapter left Chen giving Zhang Xiaoyue Divine Marrow and divine blood to strengthen her.

• Chen Shouyi and Zhang Xiaoyue left the cinema, talked about their high school memories, and rode a crowded bus to Industrial University together.
• Chen Shouyi held Zhang Xiaoyue's hand, learned her dorm address, and promised to visit her the next day.
• Zhang Xiaoyue returned to a dorm full of students who teased her after Zhou Min revealed that she had been seen with Chen Shouyi.
• Chen Shouyi received and signed for six tons of meat paste made from two beings with Great Divine Power.
• Chen Shouyi visited Zhang Xiaoyue regularly, turned down an invitation to speak at her university, and gave her small doses of Divine Marrow and divine blood.

Chen Shouyi strengthened his talents with Faith Value before learning that Qin Liuyuan had been killed on a mission. He traveled to Ningzhou to attend Qin Liuyuan’s memorial service, arriving in a city that had largely recovered from its past devastation.

• Chen Shouyi spent ten thousand Faith Value on each of his three super talents, increasing their power.
• Bai Xiaoling told Chen Shouyi that Qin Liuyuan had been killed in action by a terrifying monster.
• Chen Shouyi asked Bai Xiaoling to arrange a helicopter so he could attend Qin Liuyuan’s memorial service.
• Chen Shouyi arrived in Ningzhou, where provincial leader Zhao Zize welcomed him.
• Chen Shouyi and Bai Xiaoling drove through Ningzhou toward the funeral home where Qin Liuyuan’s body lay.

Chen Shouyi attended Qin Liuyuan’s funeral, then went to the Otherworld to optimize the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening. The optimization ended with him coughing up steaming blood, but he recognized the resulting technique’s extraordinary power.

• Chen Shouyi attended Qin Liuyuan’s funeral and offered comfort and support to Wang Suzhen and her sons, Qin Jiale and Qin Lingjie.
• Several days later, Chen Shouyi decided to postpone optimizing the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening until he could do it in the Otherworld, where its effects would be safer.
• Before dawn, Chen Shouyi took Shell Girl and Little Red Dot through the Space Channel, settled them in an ice cave, and killed a White Dragon that had wandered into the area.
• Chen Shouyi began optimizing the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening and repeatedly practiced it in a dream as the Book of Knowledge influenced his mind.
• Chen Shouyi awoke drenched in sweat, spat out steaming blood, and marveled at the power of the optimized technique.

Chen Shouyi used the fifth-optimized cultivation method, enduring catastrophic damage as his body and mind underwent repeated rounds of selection. After completing all thirty-six forms, he recovered and noticed a mutation in his hand.

• Chen Shouyi began cultivating the fifth-optimized technique and discovered that his thoughts remained clear even as his brain was damaged.
• Chen Shouyi spent days in seclusion, repeatedly cultivating and growing stronger while his body grew thinner.
• On the fifteenth day, Chen Shouyi endured the devastating thirty-fifth form as the snowy mountain shook and a Giant Beast fled from him.
• Chen Shouyi completed the thirty-sixth form, after which the destructive information vanished and Primal Force flooded into him.
• Chen Shouyi reattached his fallen bones and flesh, healed from his injuries, and noticed a mutation on his hand.

After recovering from his brutal training, Chen Shouyi returned to the city with greatly increased attributes and prepared for the New Year. He left Zhang Miaomiao to arrange the family’s gifts and air conditioners, while she awkwardly hinted at an unexplained past incident.

• Chen Shouyi noticed his skin had developed tiny scales and ate Great Divine Power meat while recovering in the other world.
• After three days of feasting, Chen Shouyi returned to the city and checked his increased Status Panel attributes.
• Chen Shouyi went to visit Zhang Xiaoyue but found that Industrial University had begun winter vacation, then collected clothes for Shell Girl and Little Red Dot.
• Shell Girl cried when she discovered Little Red Dot had one more outfit, and Chen Shouyi took one from Little Red Dot to make their piles equal.
• Zhang Miaomiao arrived with New Year goods and air conditioners, and Chen Shouyi asked her to install them in his family’s rooms.
• Zhang Miaomiao began to mention what had happened last time but quickly backed down, leaving Chen Shouyi confused.

Chen Shouyi built a warm shelter for the two little ones in the ice fields and used his growing will to reshape matter. A powerful spatial fluctuation then swept across Tam World, and he flew toward its source.

• Chen Shouyi left Zhang Miaomiao and rode his bicycle with the two little ones toward the Space Channel.
• Giants and other powerful creatures fled the ice fields, while a giant chieftain prayed to the God of Ice as Chen Shouyi smashed a mountain nearby.
• Chen Shouyi shaped the rubble into a basin and built a small shelter, then transformed its interior to make it brighter and more comfortable.
• Chen Shouyi tried to create a durable T-shirt from nearby materials, but noticed a stronger-than-usual spatial fluctuation.
• Ancient beings across Tam World turned their attention toward the forbidden zone of the gods, and Chen Shouyi flew toward the disturbance.

During New Year visits, Chen Shouyi learned that the fighting in Yanzhou remained deadlocked and discovered that his growing will could unconsciously bless or harm others. That night, he tested the God of Hunting’s sword by breaking it into atoms and reshaping it, but concluded he still fell short of the God of Hunting.

• Chen Shouyi received a stream of New Year visitors, including General Li Wenwu, who reported that the Yanzhou fighting was not going smoothly and that two million more troops would be sent after the New Year.
• Chen Shouyi accidentally blessed Li Wenwu with a faint glow through a casual remark and realized his thoughts could have powerful effects on others.
• Chen Shouyi examined the God of Hunting’s sword and sensed the electromagnetic fluctuations emitted by its atoms.
• Chen Shouyi broke the sword into scattered atoms with a flick, then gathered them back into a sword twice its original size.
• Chen Shouyi tried to enlarge the reshaped sword further, but stopped when he could not sustain the change and judged himself inferior to the God of Hunting.

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.