Chapter Summaries

Astronomers at Tianyan Observatory discovered that the Solar System was deviating from its expected course and swinging back and forth like a pendulum. After returning from seclusion, Chen Shouyi learned of an invitation to a global summit and a request to rescue Luo Jingwen, then gave Chen Xingyue a crystallized eyeball from the Barbarian God's corpse and urged her to pursue Legend.

• Jones and Huang Daming recalculated the Solar System's position and found an enormous deviation, while Huang suspected the new Supercomputer's algorithm was faulty.
• An astronomer reported that the Solar System was swinging back and forth like a pendulum on a cycle of about half a year.
• Chen Shouyi asked Bai Xiaoling what had happened during his seclusion, and she told him the God of Fertility had sent a letter and that he had been invited to a global summit.
• Bai Xiaoling told Chen Shouyi that Luo Jingwen had been quarantined and asked him to rescue him, and Chen Shouyi realized Luo had been quarantined for five months.
• Chen Shouyi returned home and gave Chen Xingyue a crystallized eyeball from the Barbarian God's corpse as a present.
• Chen Shouyi urged Chen Xingyue to become a Legend, then claimed she would have made it already if she worked half as hard as he did.

Chen Shouyi received a letter from the God of Fertility claiming she was pregnant with his child, while world leaders learned that Tam was isolating the Solar System from the universe. The chapter left Chen unsure whether the pregnancy was real and humanity facing a seemingly inescapable cosmic threat.

• Chen Shouyi read the God of Fertility’s letter and was shocked by her claim that she was pregnant with his child.
• Chen Shouyi considered whether the pregnancy was true, worried about a possible scheme by Tam, and decided to delay his trip to Southeast Asia until the next day.
• Chen Xingyue brought Chen Shouyi fruit, but he stopped himself from telling her about the pregnancy.
• At a High Commission meeting, Luo Changning explained that the Solar System was gradually separating from the universe and that humanity lacked the technology to reverse the isolation.
• The president asked whether humanity could escape, and leaders across the world confronted the threat posed by Tam.

Chen Shouyi discovered that the Goddess of Fertility was pregnant with his child and insisted that her true body remain on Earth so he could protect and raise the child. He left in high spirits, but a late-night call from the president interrupted his good mood.

• Chen Shouyi traveled to the Malay Peninsula and confronted the Goddess of Fertility, who revealed that her true body—not her Avatar—was pregnant with his child.
• Chen Shouyi demanded that the Goddess of Fertility's true body stay on Earth and that he raise the child, using his power to make her agree.
• The Goddess of Fertility's true body descended, and Chen Shouyi confirmed that the child was his; she told him the baby was ten months along and would be born in another eight or nine months.
• Chen Shouyi returned to Zhonghai in high spirits but kept the reason for his happiness from Chen Xingyue.
• After dinner, the president called Chen Shouyi and asked him to come see him.

Chen Shouyi learned that Tam had sealed the Solar System inside a miniature universe, threatening Earth and the other world with eventual destruction. He explored the sealed space through Insight but could not escape it or confront Tam, and he left the crisis unresolved.

• The president summoned Chen Shouyi to the capital and showed him documents explaining that Tam had sealed off the Solar System.
• Chen Shouyi warned officials and scholars that migration or underground shelters could not save humanity if the Solar System were swallowed, but said they might reconnect it.
• Chen Shouyi used Insight to observe the Solar System as a miniature universe, where light looped back and every direction appeared to be an edge.
• Chen Shouyi returned to normal without moving, failed to leap outside the miniature universe, and chose not to risk alerting Tam.

Chen Shouyi visited Luo Jingwen at a convalescent home and helped him leave with Zhang Shuwen, who had grown close to him. He returned to seclusion in the Himalayas, where his rapidly rising attributes had begun to slow as his will neared his perception.

• Chen Shouyi visited the convalescent home and learned that Luo Jingwen was doing well, though another person showed signs of infection.
• Chen Shouyi found Luo Jingwen chatting with Zhang Shuwen and offered to take him away.
• Luo Jingwen exchanged contact details with Zhang Shuwen, and Chen Shouyi arranged for her to resign and leave with them.
• Chen Shouyi teased Luo Jingwen about marrying Zhang Shuwen as they drove down the mountain.
• Chen Shouyi returned to the Himalayas to cultivate and saw his attributes rise sharply, though his will's growth slowed as it approached his perception.

Ye Zong escorted Samit to the capital ahead of a global leaders’ meeting, where humanity’s leaders debated whether to keep pursuing spaceflight despite their apparent confinement. Back home, Chen Shouyi’s strength increased without training, and he discovered that his willpower could instantly stop a thunderstorm.

• Ye Zong met Samit at Beijing International Airport and escorted him to the state guesthouse, where Samit said he hoped to meet Chief Chen, Godchen.
• Ye Zong and Samit passed a protest against secrecy and Great Xia Nation’s hegemony, and military police arrested the demonstrators.
• Lucy Nation President Plov argued for cutting spaceflight spending, while Joseph and the Prime Minister of Rising Sun Country described humanity’s bleak prospects.
• Chen Shouyi returned from the Himalayas, spent the evening with his family, and checked his Status Panel during a thunderstorm.
• Chen Shouyi’s Strength rose from 28.5 to 28.6, and he stopped the storm instantly by walking to the window.

Six months after the Bureau of Security for Unidentified Phenomena was founded, Chen Zhenyu’s team investigated reports of strange activity in Bumbus City and prepared to continue the search the next day. In the Himalayas, Chen Shouyi reached the limits of his physical transformation and sensed a mysterious stirring that seemed to signal something significant.

• Chen Zhenyu and his team questioned a tavern owner in Bumbus City about strange people and bizarre rituals, but he gave them no clear answer.
• Chen Zhenyu warned Carlos and their other teammate to follow mission rules and avoid confronting the dangerous tainted devotees alone.
• In the Himalayas, Chen Shouyi’s body began to crack under pressure, but he withdrew his will and healed himself.
• Chen Shouyi checked his Status Panel and saw that his attributes and innate abilities had nearly reached their peaks.
• Chen Shouyi recalled a brief surge of joy and an urge to break free of his shackles, then darkened as he considered what it might mean.

Chen Shouyi reflected on Tamu’s overwhelming power and Earth’s approaching destruction, then left seclusion to reconnect with ordinary life and meet Zhang Xiaoyue. He reassured her about their relationship, while keeping secret that he had a child on the way with the Goddess of Fertility.

• Chen Shouyi realized his cultivation had stalled and continued to worry that he could not stop Tamu from devouring Earth.
• Chen Shouyi rode a bus through Zhonghai, where passengers discussed rumors of the apocalypse and the growing number of legendary martial artists.
• Chen Shouyi gave Zhang Xiaoyue a diamond necklace when they met after more than half a year, and he decided not to tell her about the child he expected with the Goddess of Fertility.
• Chen Shouyi joked with Zhang Xiaoyue about whom he had missed, upsetting her when he named his parents and little sister but not her.
• Chen Shouyi comforted Zhang Xiaoyue in the park and promised she was his only girlfriend and that they would marry once she became a legend.

As the worsening winter leaves Chen Shouyi with time to experiment, he studies humanity’s limited understanding of higher dimensions and tests whether he can force particles to ascend. He succeeds with a dozen particles but realizes his own consciousness is far too substantial for his current power to lift into a higher dimension.

• Primal Force concentration makes Zhonghai’s December temperatures fall to around thirty degrees below zero, while the new power system continues operating normally.
• Chen Shouyi spends his free time with Zhang Xiaoyue and reflecting on his stalled cultivation and humanity’s incomplete theories of the universe.
• Chen Shouyi crushes particles in the air and uses his will to raise their energy, but cannot make them ascend into a higher dimension when working with too many at once.
• Chen Shouyi repeats the experiment with only a dozen particles and makes them disappear after applying half his willpower.
• Chen Shouyi concludes that ascending dimensions is possible but that his consciousness requires far more energy than he has accumulated.

Chen Shouyi struggled to find a way to advance beyond planetary-level power while dealing with growing threats and preparing for the Goddess of Fertility's childbirth. Meanwhile, Cai Yuming's analysis of Space Channel data predicted that the channels could reach a critical point in four years and three months.

• Chen Shouyi sensed and destroyed an evil believer in a distant alley, noting that it was the fourth such incident that month.
• Chen Shouyi repaired a burst water meter instantly, then spoke with Carl and learned that Carl had no surviving family and no desire to start another family.
• Chen Shouyi visited the Goddess of Fertility on Small Island, where she said she would give birth in one month and three days.
• Cai Yuming found that the latest Space Channel data differed sharply from predictions and recalculated the trend as one of accelerating expansion.
• Cai Yuming learned the data had been verified and saw a forecast of four years and three months before the Space Channels reached their critical point.

After learning from the president that time was running out, Chen Shouyi decided to accelerate his plans as protests erupted in Paris over the government’s secret spaceship project. He returned to the Tam World through his thought, but a terrifying presence appeared and destroyed the statue through which he descended.

• Chen Shouyi hung up on the president, learned that Tam would not give him much time, and resolved to speed up his plan.
• Students at Paris Diderot University distributed a classified forecast about the Solar System’s destruction and accused the government of hiding the truth.
• Police failed to contain the growing crowd as students left campus and marched in protest.
• Chen Shouyi’s Divine Statue in the Barbarian Tribe stirred, and the tribe’s people fell to their knees, believing their god had descended.
• Chen Shouyi faced an overwhelming hostile presence in the Tam World, saw death-filled eyes open in the darkness, and watched the statue crumble.

Chen Shouyi stole power from Tam by refining its lingering Will, then prepared for another attempt as his Will grew stronger. Meanwhile, unrest spread across the European Alliance, and Joseph agreed to meet the protest leaders demanding the truth.

• Chen Shouyi refined the lingering Will from his encounter with Tam, raising his Perception while suffering only minor damage to his soul.
• Chen Shouyi refrained from using the faith channels again until he could prepare for Tam’s likely retaliation.
• In January, Chen Shouyi sent the Shell Girl and Little Red Dot several kilometers away before descending into the other world again.
• The Minister of the Interior reported that unrest had spread through France, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain, while local forces increasingly ignored orders.
• Joseph blamed the government’s loss of public support and growing military disobedience, then invited the protest leaders to meet him.

Chen Shouyi waited for the Goddess of Fertility to give birth, then met their giant newborn daughter and decided to take her to his parents. He called home with the news, leaving Chen Dawei and Mother Chen excited to meet their granddaughter.

• Chen Shouyi waited anxiously while the Goddess of Fertility gave birth in her inner palace.
• The Goddess of Fertility emerged with a giant baby girl who had no divinity or divine spark.
• The Goddess of Fertility resisted when Chen Shouyi asked to take the child, but he promised to bring her back for visits.
• Mother Chen worried about her twitching eyelids and called Chen Shouyi, who told her he was coming with his daughter.
• Mother Chen told Chen Dawei that they were about to meet their granddaughter, and he eagerly got up.

Chen Shouyi brought his unusually enormous daughter home, astonishing his parents and sister as they tried to prepare for a granddaughter they had only just learned about. After his family saw her, Chen Shouyi said her mother’s identity involved confidential information, but Chen Xingyue urged him to tell their parents the truth.

• Mother Chen, Chen Dawei, Chen Xingyue, and Carl reacted to the news that Chen Shouyi had brought home a daughter and discussed buying baby supplies.
• Chen Shouyi warned his parents that the child was unusual, and they heard her exceptionally loud voice during a phone call.
• A massive presence briefly darkened the area around Zhonghai as Chen Shouyi returned home at an enormous size before shrinking back to normal.
• Chen Shouyi entered carrying his sleeping, giant-sized daughter, leaving his family stunned; Carl congratulated him and then left to buy formula.
• Chen Dawei asked who the child’s mother was, and Chen Shouyi called the matter confidential before Chen Xingyue told him to be honest with their parents.

Chen Shouyi’s enormous newborn daughter frightened his family, but she suddenly shrank into his arms, revealing that she had inherited his Giant Transformation. His parents accepted her as their granddaughter, and Carl arrived with formula as the family adjusted to her unusual needs.

• Chen Shouyi soothed his crying, giant-sized daughter while his parents and Chen Xingyue retreated to the kitchen in alarm.
• Chen Shouyi’s daughter shrank until she fit in his arms, and he realized she had inherited his Giant Transformation.
• Chen Dawei and Chen Xingyue speculated that the child’s mother was a Savage God, while Chen Dawei told them to keep the theory private.
• Chen Shouyi pretended that he had abandoned his daughter, then showed Chen Dawei that the baby in his arms was the same granddaughter in her shrunken form.
• Carl brought three boxes of infant formula and stared around in confusion when he saw the small baby.

Chen Shouyi arranged for a nanny to care for his newborn daughter and went to the Goddess of Fertility’s palace to choose one. He rejected two Saintesses after learning about their church’s sacred ritual, leaving the selection unresolved.

• Chen Shouyi fed his newborn daughter while his family discussed raising her and agreed they needed a nanny.
• Shell Girl and Little Red Dot competed for Chen Shouyi’s praise and offered to help care for the baby.
• Chen Shouyi decided to recruit a female Legend from among the Goddess of Fertility’s Saintesses to be the nanny.
• The Goddess of Fertility presented several Saintesses and explained that two had never undergone the sacred ritual.
• Chen Shouyi learned the ritual involved uninhibited group sex and immediately ruled out the two Saintesses.

Chen Shouyi interviewed four Saintesses, chose an Asian candidate, and returned to Zhonghai as the Holy Alliance Nation collapsed. Fleeing with its remaining officials, specialists, and wealth, Ottos directed his followers toward Great Xia and ordered them to abandon the church’s old ways.

• Chen Shouyi interviewed four Saintesses and selected an Asian candidate to accompany him back to Zhonghai.
• The Republic of Gami declared independence, and more than a dozen other nations soon broke away as the Holy Alliance Nation’s rule collapsed.
• Ottos and Kaisen fled by ship with church officials, military personnel, specialists, gold, and research materials.
• Ottos rejected Joseph’s invitation to the European Alliance and chose to seek refuge in Great Xia.
• Ottos told his followers to gradually abandon the church’s old ways and become atheists.

Chen Shouyi enjoyed family life with his rapidly growing daughter while reassuring the public that Earth faced no immediate doomsday crisis. His interview helped quell demonstrations in the European Alliance, leaving Prime Minister Joseph grateful for Chen Shouyi’s influence but regretting that he did not use it to unite humanity.

• Chen Shouyi returned home from cultivating and played with his daughter, while Mother Chen objected to the nickname A'man and nanny Yang Xin respectfully called the child a princess.
• Chen Shouyi gave Renren Daily an interview dismissing doomsday rumors, supporting the government’s spaceship construction, and urging people to endure future crises.
• The European Alliance reprinted Chen Shouyi’s interview as demonstrations intensified amid shortages, inflation, and public resentment.
• After the report circulated, protesters and military police responded to Chen Shouyi’s words, and major demonstrations subsided within days.
• In Berlin, Joseph heard that order was returning and reflected that Chen Shouyi’s immense popularity could help unite humanity, though he stayed out of worldly affairs.

The Fate Stealer came to Chen Shouyi for help after Tam’s will destroyed the other ancient evil beings and left him near death, but Chen Shouyi gave him complete release. After learning that Pluto had vanished and fallen into the Great Sea of Tam, Chen Shouyi investigated the falling star and realized a greater catastrophe might be coming.

• The Fate Stealer reached Chen Shouyi in the Himalayas and explained that the Ancestor God had been sealed again and Tam’s will had killed the other ancient evil beings.
• Chen Shouyi refused to save the Fate Stealer and destroyed him with a thought.
• Observatories reported that Pluto had disappeared and that the Solar System’s boundary was rapidly shrinking.
• Chen Shouyi questioned the God of Conspiracy about events in Tam, and she told him a gigantic falling star had crashed into the Great Sea in the east.
• Chen Shouyi concluded the falling star was likely Pluto, warned the God of Conspiracy to keep gathering information, and flew away.

With Pluto gone and Earth’s environment deteriorating, Chen Shouyi demonstrated his power by lifting Himalayan peaks into space and began constructing a vast spaceship to evacuate humanity. The ship appeared in geosynchronous orbit, causing an uproar as the President and officials learned of the miracle.

• The President asked Chen Shouyi how likely humanity was to escape Earth, and Chen said their chances were around fifty percent or better.
• Chen Shouyi flew to geosynchronous orbit and tore three Himalayan peaks from Earth, drawing rocks into space.
• The President learned that engineers had no breakthrough and that a ship for one hundred thousand people would take at least three years to build.
• Chen Shouyi processed the mountain rock into materials and designed a butterfly-shaped spaceship intended to hold Earth’s population.
• Chen Shouyi rapidly formed the spaceship’s hull and systems, and its sudden appearance in geosynchronous orbit caused a tremendous uproar.