Chapter Summaries

Zeng Shen activated a god system three years before the apocalypse and learned that Blue Planet would fall to disaster in one year. After discovering that his kitten believer had rare King aptitude, he received a warning that a Tier 3 undead god was nearby.

• Zeng Shen gained the Strongest God System after a black kitten became his casual believer, and he inspected his attributes, inventory, and main quest.
• He read the system journal and realized the apocalypse would begin on April 1, 2120, a year before the date shown on his phone.
• Zeng Shen decided to use his early warning to prepare, grow stronger, and gather believers before the cataclysm.
• Zeng Shen used Eye of Observation on the hungry kitten and learned it was a Bastet Cat with rare King aptitude that provided one faith point per day.
• As Zeng Shen took the kitten to buy food, the system warned that a Tier 3 god of the Undead System was about to capture his follower and possibly kill him.
• A beautiful woman in a white dress emerged from the shop, leaving Zeng Shen confused by the warning panel.

While searching for work, Zeng Shen accepted a flexible content-creation job from his former classmate Li Yuqing, an Undead System deity. He gained survival points by feeding his kitten and a supposed Hellhound, then acquired the little chow chow as a pet mount and true believer.

• Zeng Shen met Li Yuqing, who offered him a content-creation job paying a guaranteed ten thousand plus commission, and he agreed to start the next day.
• The system rewarded Zeng Shen with survival points after Li Yuqing left, then his black kitten became a true believer when he fed it fish sausages.
• Zeng Shen followed the kitten toward an abandoned hospital, but the system warned him that a tier-three Hellhound was ahead.
• A dirty little chow chow appeared, and Zeng Shen fed it a fish sausage, resolving the supposed crisis and earning 100 survival points.
• After Zeng Shen fed the chow chow the rest of his sausages, it followed him and became his pet mount and true believer, earning him 1,000 survival points.

Zeng Shen entered an abandoned hospital to befriend its stray cats, despite warnings that they were powerful descendants of Bastet. He fed the kittens and adult cats, gained only 50 survival points from their favor, then earned 1,000 more when he left with the black kitten and white puppy.

• Zeng Shen ignored the system's warnings about dangerous beings inside the abandoned hospital and used the black kitten to call the strays over.
• Zeng Shen fed fish sausages to the kittens, earning 50 survival points as several young cats accepted the food.
• The adult cats cautiously approached for sausages, then ate two packets without granting him survival points or becoming his believers.
• Zeng Shen decided to return the next day, collected the black kitten and white puppy, and climbed out of the hospital.
• The system awarded Zeng Shen 1,000 survival points for leading his kin and mount out of the cats' encirclement.

Zeng Shen tested how the system awarded survival points while gathering supplies, then brought Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai home and wrote down his theories about the coming catastrophe. The next morning, he left his apartment with the two animals, earning another 1,000 survival points for having spent the night in a building the system warned was dangerous.

• Zeng Shen walked through a plaza, shopping street, and beast-infested sidewalk despite the system's warnings, earning 3,000 survival points without provoking anyone.
• Zeng Shen returned to his apartment with cat and dog supplies, washed the stray animals, named them Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, and set up their houses.
• Zeng Shen recorded theories about the post-catastrophe world and concluded that safely escaping powerful beings might provide repeatable survival points.
• Zeng Shen decided to test his theories the next morning, then went to bed in the apartment building occupied by a curse deity.
• The next morning, Zeng Shen left the apartment carrying Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, and the system awarded him 1,000 survival points for surviving the night there.

Zeng Shen returned to the abandoned hospital to feed the stray Bastet cats and used the Eye of Observation to inspect their aptitudes. He discovered that Big Black Cat was the wary patriarch of the cats, then froze in disbelief at what he learned about the kittens.

• Zeng Shen tested the park's danger warning again and concluded that survival points could only be earned once per location each day.
• Zeng Shen went to the abandoned hospital, where the system warned that powerful intelligent beings might enslave him, and decided his feeding had made the threat less certain.
• Zeng Shen filled five bowls with kitten food and sent Xiao Hei into the hospital to summon the other cats.
• Xiao Bai's bark frightened five kittens away, so Zeng Shen put him in an abandoned car and waited while the cats approached the food.
• Zeng Shen used the Eye of Observation and learned that Big Black Cat was a lord-aptitude Bastet cat who led the strays.
• Zeng Shen examined the kittens' panels and froze in disbelief at their aptitude information.

Zeng Shen fed the stray cats and earned their favor before returning home with Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai. At the elevator, he encountered a tier-three curse deity but escaped with his companions, earning enough survival points to activate the prize wheel.

• Zeng Shen fed the adult strays, earning the favor of ten Bastet cats and 100 survival points.
• Zeng Shen left the hospital territory with the little black kitten and the white puppy, earning 10 survival points.
• Zeng Shen planned to seek a first-clear reward on the pedestrian street and at Li Yuqing's studio.
• Zeng Shen encountered a little girl identified as a tier-three curse deity and entered the elevator instead of abandoning Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai.
• Zeng Shen earned two 1,000-point rewards and reached 10,000 survival points, activating the prize wheel.

Zeng Shen used his prize wheel draws to learn taming, then crossed a dangerous pedestrian street and went to meet Li Yuqing at her studio. He discovered that her college roommate Liu Tongtong had become one of her followers and was told to find the studio in Room 1314.

• Zeng Shen drew divine-domain supplies, a divine energy rocket launcher, and a low-tier taming skill, then learned the skill.
• Zeng Shen failed to tame Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai and realized using taming with mental energy left him exhausted.
• Zeng Shen crossed the beast-infested pedestrian street safely and earned 1,000 survival points.
• Zeng Shen entered the office building claimed by Li Yuqing, whom the system identified as a tier-three Undead System deity.
• Zeng Shen met Liu Tongtong, who recognized him as the mysterious expert Li Yuqing expected at Like Family Studio and directed him to Room 1314.

Zeng Shen learned that Liu Tongtong had died protecting his future self from a Tier 4 Demon System deity, then resolved to grow stronger before the apocalypse. At Li Yuqing’s studio, he and Li Yuqing made their relationship official, and he returned home to feed Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai.

• Zeng Shen used the Eye of Observation to discover Liu Tongtong’s past death and resurrection, and suspected a Tier 4 Demon System deity had kept him weak.
• Zeng Shen received 1,000 survival points for driving off Liu Tongtong without alerting Li Yuqing, and decided to earn more rewards to strengthen himself.
• Zeng Shen visited Li Yuqing’s new studio, where the two discussed their plans for running it.
• Zeng Shen kissed Li Yuqing, and they slept together, making their relationship official.
• Li Yuqing drove Zeng Shen home and left to visit her hometown with her parents for two days.
• Zeng Shen returned to his apartment and went to feed Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai.

Zeng Shen rescued five kittens and the Bastet cat tribe from a cruel streamer at the abandoned hospital, earning 3,000 survival points. He was left stunned by the reward.

• Zeng Shen woke up, fed Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, and left Xiao Bai at home while taking Xiao Hei to visit his mother.
• Zeng Shen earned 40 survival points while crossing the sidewalk, commercial street, and park square on his way to the abandoned hospital.
• Zeng Shen received a warning about a tier-two demon deity and found a streamer dangling five kittens while Xiao Hei's mother and the other strays protested.
• Zeng Shen kicked and slapped the streamer, then threw him out of the hospital and rescued the kittens.
• Zeng Shen received 3,000 survival points and the favor of the entire Bastet cat tribe.

Zeng Shen freed the five kittens and fed the stray cats, earning the loyalty of the Bastet tribe and 3,000 survival points. He used the points for a ten-pull and won a gold Divinely Chosen Land card, along with several cards for aquatic life and a small jade and gemstone mine.

• Zeng Shen approached the wary strays and freed the five kittens after Xiao Hei persuaded Big Black Cat to let him through.
• Zeng Shen fed Big Black Cat, the kittens, and the other strays, winning their trust.
• Big Black Cat led the Bastet tribe in following Zeng Shen, earning him 3,000 survival points and 16 casual believers.
• Zeng Shen spent the points on a ten-pull and drew the gold Divinely Chosen Land card.
• Zeng Shen also drew two Plankton Colony Cards, a Freshwater River Shrimp Card, a Freshwater Carp Card, and a Small Jade and Gemstone Mine Card.

Zeng Shen used a divine domain card to establish and name the Domain of Yanhuang, after gaining new skills and equipment from his cards. The domain panel revealed a vast, hidden SSS-grade territory with rare traits and the potential to develop special races and wonders.

• Zeng Shen gained agility enhancement, a mining and refining vehicle, and a disguise mask, then upgraded agility enhancement to intermediate tier.
• Zeng Shen used the golden divine domain card and allowed Blue Star’s will to carry his consciousness to his domain.
• Zeng Shen surveyed the dark planet below and named his 1,000-square-kilometer territory the Domain of Yanhuang.
• Zeng Shen opened the divine domain panel and learned that the domain had rare divine concealment and divine protection traits and an SSS-grade evaluation.

Zeng Shen explored his highest-ranked divine domain, discovered its Divine Palace wonder and Divine Protection trait, and brought his stray cats into the domain safely. He left the cats near a forest, where they explored while regarding him with reverence.

• Zeng Shen inspected his divine domain and found a winding river, vast mountains, fertile plains, and a majestic palace built into a canyon.
• Zeng Shen opened the Divine Palace and saw sacred paintings and a lifelike statue of himself, then learned how to open the Divine Domain Gate and return to his body.
• Zeng Shen opened the gate in the abandoned hospital and tossed Big Black Cat inside, but a warning that the cat would age rapidly was followed by Divine Protection activating.
• Zeng Shen brought the other stray cats, Xiao Hei, and the cat dishes into the divine domain, then entered physically thanks to the Divine Palace wonder.
• Zeng Shen moved the cats near a forest, where they began exploring and showed reverence whenever they looked at him.

Zeng Shen encountered Master Ma, a third-tier fire deity who enslaved elderly people, and was drawn into a fight after Master Ma’s apprentice accused him of attacking him. After Zeng Shen used Agility Enhancement to knock Master Ma down, the old man fled rather than spar again.

• Zeng Shen left his divine domain and headed through the park plaza toward the shopping street.
• The system warned Zeng Shen that enslaved people and a third-tier fire deity were nearby, and the streamer he had beaten pointed him out to Master Ma.
• Master Ma challenged Zeng Shen to spar, while an elderly fan blocked Zeng Shen and staged a fake assault to pressure him into accepting.
• Zeng Shen spent 20 faith points on Agility Enhancement and kicked Master Ma into the streamer before anyone could follow his movement.
• Master Ma claimed the attack was unfair and hurried out of the park when Zeng Shen offered to spar again.

After returning home, Zeng Shen discovered that Xiao Bai had become his fanatical believer, earning him survival points and faith. He opened the Divine Realm Gate to take Xiao Bai to his divine realm, and the dog was drawn toward the great statue inside.

• Zeng Shen bought fifty Mint Cat Balls after bargaining at a pet-supply supermarket, then returned to his apartment despite the system’s warnings about nearby dangers.
• Xiao Bai greeted Zeng Shen eagerly and became his fanatical believer, granting him 1,000 survival points and 100 faith.
• Zeng Shen ordered cat beds and other supplies, then messaged Li Yuqing about selling jade; she offered to take him to her uncle’s shop when she returned on Monday.
• Zeng Shen opened the Divine Realm Gate, and Xiao Bai approached the divine palace and its wolf-dog statue holding fire.

Zeng Shen brought Xiao Bai into his divine realm, where Xiao Hei protected him from Big Black Cat. At Riverbend Bay, Zeng Shen used a Plankton Card and discovered that deploying cards in the divine realm earned divine rank experience.

• Xiao Bai approached the canine statue at the divine palace, then followed Zeng Shen to the forest's edge.
• Xiao Bai barked at the five kittens, but backed down when Big Black Cat confronted him and struck him on the head.
• Xiao Hei soothed Big Black Cat and stopped him from striking Xiao Bai again.
• Zeng Shen carried Xiao Bai to a stream and named it Riverbend Bay, with the upstream pool and waterfall named Riverbend Pool and Riverbend Falls.
• Zeng Shen deployed a Plankton Card in the stream and received ten plankton colonies and one point of divine rank experience.
• Zeng Shen realized that using cards in his divine realm could raise his divine rank, then took out more resource cards and flew above the realm.

Zeng Shen explored the jade mine he had created in his divine realm and tested its mining vehicle, then returned home after staying up late. The next morning, his wife called to ask why he had gone to bed so late, and he told her he had been mining.

• Zeng Shen entered Emerald Valley and found a jade gemstone cave filled with white-quality jade containing faint divine-effect energy.
• Zeng Shen deployed a Small Multifunctional Mining and Refining Vehicle, which sent five robotic miners into the cave to excavate jade and gemstones.
• Zeng Shen manually controlled Robotic Miner No. 001 to extract a piece of jade, then stopped when he noticed it was past one in the morning.
• Zeng Shen returned home with Xiao Bai, left Xiao Hei asleep with his siblings, and filled the cats' bowls with food before leaving.
• Zeng Shen's wife called after ten the next morning, and Zeng Shen explained that he had stayed up late because he had been mining.

Zeng Shen expanded the Domain of Yanhuang’s food supply and built a home for Xiao Hei, the kittens, and Xiao Bai at the forest’s edge, naming their territory Bast Town. He then returned to his apartment to earn more survival points.

• Zeng Shen found Big Black Cat leading the stray cats to hunt plankton at the stream and released freshwater shrimp fry and freshwater carp fry into the aquatic zone.
• Zeng Shen inspected the rice seedlings and jade, finding that the rice could be harvested in three months and that only one of more than a hundred jade pieces was green quality.
• Zeng Shen received and carried twenty cat houses into the Domain of Yanhuang, then set them up along the forest’s edge.
• Zeng Shen named the cats’ new territory Bast Town, and Xiao Bai joined Xiao Hei and the kittens in playing inside a cat house.
• Zeng Shen left the Domain of Yanhuang and went out to earn survival points.

Zeng Shen went to Master Ma’s Martial Arts Hall hoping to learn whether sparring could earn him survival points again, but the system warned him that the hall belonged to a fire deity’s followers. After being confronted by the Fire Slave Clan chief, Zeng Shen agreed to spar with the chief’s students.

• Master Ma spotted Zeng Shen approaching the park and hurried out through the back exit.
• An elderly woman directed Zeng Shen to Master Ma’s Martial Arts Hall, and Zeng Shen wondered whether his previous fight had earned points for both subduing and repelling his opponents.
• The system warned Zeng Shen that the Martial Arts Hall was in the territory of a tier three fire deity and its followers.
• Zeng Shen entered the hall, where the system identified a middle-aged man as the tier four Fire Slave Clan chief.
• The chief offered to have his students spar with Zeng Shen, and Zeng Shen eagerly agreed.

Zeng Shen challenged the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall and used his amplified speed to defeat its disciples one after another, earning survival points. He then sparred with hall master Li Zhiyuan, who anticipated Zeng Shen’s kick but conceded after missing his chance to catch it.

• The middle-aged hall master sent Fatty Zhang to spar with Zeng Shen, who dodged his charge and kicked him down, earning 50 survival points.
• Zeng Shen defeated Li Qing with another swift kick and received 100 survival points.
• Zeng Shen kicked down a succession of challengers, including Zhang Erhe and Wang Er, earning 1,300 survival points in total.
• Zeng Shen asked to spar with Li Zhiyuan, who introduced himself as the thirtieth-generation successor of the Lihuo Martial Arts Hall and took a Taiji Fist stance.
• Li Zhiyuan predicted Zeng Shen’s kick and nearly caught his heel, but Zeng Shen pulled away; Li Zhiyuan then conceded.

Zeng Shen turned Lihuo Martial Arts Hall into a daily sparring opportunity to farm survival points and learn martial skills. He discovered Master Ma was a Tier 3 fire deity who had reborn his fallen followers as Fire Slaves, then left after frightening Master Ma and earning another survival-point reward.

• After defeating the hall members, Zeng Shen accepted the hall’s offer and asked them to spar with him daily while he limited his speed to twenty percent.
• Hall Master Li agreed to teach Zeng Shen martial skills during their sessions, and Zeng Shen learned that Li and the hall’s members were Fire Slaves devoted to Master Ma.
• Hall Master Li explained that Master Ma worked as the hall’s cleaner and recruited children by showing tai chi moves in the park.
• When Master Ma arrived and tried to flee, Zeng Shen used Speed Enhancement to stop him and earned 100 survival points for subduing the Tier 3 fire deity.
• Zeng Shen left the hall, and a notification awarded him 1,000 survival points for resisting Master Ma and his enslaved retinue and defeating them.