Chapter Summaries

Li Hai used a disguised Star Demon hatchling to trick his captive into revealing that hundreds of powerful Star Demons could arrive in two hundred years. He killed the captive after extracting the intelligence and gained two fragments.

• Li Hai entered the Void Dream Realm and found the Star Demon hatchling still bound to a stake on the blood-red grassland.
• Li Hai disguised himself as another hatchling and coaxed the captive into explaining that its clan's army was stationed tens of thousands of light-years away.
• The captive revealed that at least three hundred, possibly four hundred, mature Star Demons capable of destroying stars might arrive in two hundred years.
• Li Hai revealed his disguise, celebrated the intelligence, and dismissed the demons' threats.
• Li Hai annihilated the captive, and the Dream Realm absorbed it as Li Hai gained two fragments.

Li Hai arrived in Springwood and planned to destroy the emptied town the next morning, announcing that divine punishment and God's spirit would descend. Meanwhile, Ethan Hunt followed him on behalf of the federal government but chose to wait and observe.

• Li Hai landed in Ohio, while Ethan Hunt and Charles followed him toward Springwood and discussed the Gospel Cult's power and the federal government's concerns.
• Ethan Hunt decided not to confront Li Hai yet and chose to watch what he would do.
• Li Hai arrived in Springwood and found the town empty after its residents had relocated to a new town built by the Gospel Cult.
• Li Hai said he would destroy Springwood after sunrise and asked old Mr. Williams to contact the heads of six television networks.
• Li Hai told old Mr. Williams that divine punishment and God's spirit would descend at nine the next morning.

Li Hai told old Williams that the Spirit of Power would merge with him, and ordered him to buy airtime across six major networks to broadcast divine punishment against Springwood. After hearing the announcement, Ethan Hunt and Charles suspected Anthony and the Gospel Cult planned to destroy the town with a nuclear bomb, so they went to investigate.

• Li Hai told old Williams that the Spirit of Power would descend and merge with him the next day.
• Li Hai ordered old Williams to spend five hundred million dollars per network to buy airtime on six major television networks.
• Ethan Hunt and Charles watched the dark outskirts of Springwood while waiting for more information.
• Ethan learned that the networks were announcing God's planned destruction of Springwood and the Spirit's merger with Anthony Williams.
• Ethan suspected Anthony and the Gospel Cult had acquired tactical nuclear bombs and decided to infiltrate Springwood with Charles.

Li Hai drew worldwide attention to Springwood before detonating three antimatter bombs at nine in the morning. The blast engulfed the entire town, leaving the fate of its inhabitants unknown.

• A CNN reporter broadcast Springwood’s impending divine destruction, and news of the event spread to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
• Li Hai’s Phenomenon Fiction ability kept a television working in an unpowered tavern while he waited for nine o’clock.
• Li Hai had Ethan and Charles knocked unconscious and flown to New Springwood after discovering their infiltration.
• At nine, Li Hai pressed the detonators for three antimatter bombs buried in Springwood.
• A blast erupted from Nancy Thompson’s house and swept across Springwood, consuming the town in torrents of heat.

The Antimatter Bomb devastated Springwood, but Li Hai survived in his Level 4 Formless Body and absorbed the worldwide fanaticism sparked by the blast. He began creating a cultivation art in the sky, and viewers including Ethan Hunt and Charles were left wondering whether Anthony’s claims about divine power were true.

• The Antimatter Bomb explosion destroyed Springwood and was detected around the world, while Ethan Hunt and U.S. officials reacted with shock and despair.
• Saint Anthony Gospel Cult believers and more than a hundred million new believers sent their reverence and anticipation toward Springwood, where Li Hai remained unharmed by the blast.
• Li Hai absorbed the emotional torrent and used Phenomenon Fiction to begin creating a cultivation art as he rose into the sky.
• Satellites broadcast Li Hai’s strange distortions and blazing light worldwide, drawing another wave of emotion from viewers.
• Charles asked Ethan whether a magic prop could cause the spectacle, and Ethan said none could as they questioned Anthony’s claims about God and demons.

As Ethan's will cracked, Taibai Venus tore East Asia from Earth and condensed it into a silver-black sphere, leaving a vast abyss behind. Earth then expanded and reshaped itself, creating new continents and raising its total land area to 520 million square kilometers.

• Cai Tianju returned to Cai Family Village from Los Angeles and confronted Sixth Great-Uncle about being summoned home with promises of gold and oil.
• An invisible force froze everything across East Asia, then lifted the region into space and tore a vast hole through Earth's surface and mantle.
• Taibai Venus condensed the East Asian landmass into a silver-black sphere, while Earth's damaged gravity sent its artificial satellites careening out of orbit and disrupted global communications.
• The sphere fired an invisible beam at Earth and vanished into space as Earth began expanding and matter filled the enormous geological voids.
• Earth's continents spread apart and new landmasses emerged, including two vast continents in the Atlantic and Pacific, bringing its total land area to 520 million square kilometers.

As Earth underwent radical changes from a massive surge in spiritual essence, Li Hai learned that an alien spacecraft had caused the planet’s transformation and completed his new technique, Magnetic Field Rotation. The technique rapidly elevated him to the level of a high-hypersonic lifeform.

• Earth’s increased spiritual essence caused animals and plants to mutate, awakened superpowered humans, healed terminally ill patients, and spawned evil spirits.
• Li Hai’s Phenomenon Fiction ability revealed information about East Asia’s ascension, including that Earth’s growth came from an alien spacecraft and that two new continents had appeared.
• Li Hai completed Magnetic Field Rotation by combining the foundations and powers of his previous abilities and arts.
• Magnetic Field Rotation surged to fifty thousand horses, raising Li Hai’s physical traits to Level 3 and making him a Thousand-Army Rank martial artist.
• Li Hai’s Magnetic Field Rotation reached one hundred thousand, raising his bodily and spiritual traits to Level 4 and making him a high-hypersonic lifeform.

Li Hai pushed his magnetic field rotation to the limit of Level 4 without crossing into Level 5, preserving his plan to let others develop through the power system he created. He demonstrated his immense strength by striking the ground with Heaven Explosion Punch.

• Li Hai reflected on his new physical and supernatural powers, including molecular-level control and mental detection.
• Li Hai decided to remain below Level 5 so magnetic field infected humans could continue progressing through the system he designed.
• Li Hai increased his magnetic field rotation to 199,999 horses, the endpoint of the Level 4 Domain trait.
• Li Hai assessed his extreme speed, hundred-li perception radius, and hundred-million-ton physical strength.
• Li Hai hovered above a molten crater and struck downward with Heaven Explosion Punch.

Li Hai unleashed the Heaven Explosion Punch, displayed his power to millions of believers, and declared himself their God. As the Magnetic Field Era began worldwide, Ethan Hunt and Chen Haonan developed Magnetic Field Rotation, with Chen Haonan gaining the power as he sank toward the riverbed.

• Li Hai's Heaven Explosion Punch blasted a vast crater through the earth's crust and deep into the mantle, reaching pseudo-Overlord class.
• Li Hai used Phenomenon Fiction to appear in the hearts of two hundred million believers and proclaim himself the sole God and Holy Spirit.
• In New Springwood, Charles and Ethan suspected the town was connected to the Gospel Cult, while their phones and bureau communicators remained unusable.
• Ethan began suffering from Magnetic Field Rotation as similar symptoms appeared among tens of thousands of people around the world, marking the start of the Magnetic Field Era.
• In Amsterdam, Crow shot Chen Haonan as he escaped into the river, and Chen Haonan awakened Magnetic Field Rotation while sinking.

Chen Haonan awakened Magnetic Field Rotation after nearly dying, defeated Crow, and learned Crow claimed Stutterer had been his lover. The chapter left Crow’s young son, Zhan Nianyi, vowing revenge as a mysterious power stirred inside him.

• Chen Haonan’s magnetic seed rapidly grew, healing him and raising his Magnetic Field Rotation to one hundred matches.
• Chen Haonan burst from the river, overpowered Crow, and demanded to know where Stutterer was.
• Crow claimed Stutterer had chosen him and taunted Chen Haonan about their sex lives, provoking Chen Haonan to kill him in a rage.
• Fat Corpse fled and told Zhan Nianyi that Chen Haonan had killed his father.
• Zhan Nianyi vowed to kill Chen Haonan and later take revenge for Crow, while a mysterious power stirred within him.

Zhan Nianyi awakened Magnetic Field Rotation at three hundred and sixty paces while superpowered delinquents plunged the world into chaos. Chicken confronted Lei Fuhong in Melbourne, and Washington officials discussed Li Hai without understanding how dangerous he was.

• Zhan Nianyi instinctively contained his newly awakened power to protect his mother, learned it was Magnetic Field Rotation, and reached three hundred and sixty paces.
• Chicken caught Cao Liulang in Melbourne and prepared to kill him for raping and murdering his wife.
• Lei Fuhong ambushed Chicken, revealed his own Magnetic Field Rotation, and began fighting him with water weapons against Chicken's Black Chicken Asura Slash.
• Magnetic field delinquents sparked violence and massacres across countries as societies fell into chaos.
• Washington moguls discussed Li Hai, believing he had powerful abilities and might have detonated a nuclear bomb in Springwood.

Li Hai, known to the United States as Anthony Williams, unexpectedly appeared inside a White House conference and overpowered the officials and guards. He demanded that President Clinton announce on television that Li Hai would rule the United States.

• At a White House meeting, officials debated capturing Anthony Williams and exploiting his body while Bradley warned that their intelligence on the Gospel Cult was outdated and unreliable.
• A burly stranger revealed himself as Anthony Williams, shocking the officials by appearing unnoticed in the conference room.
• Li Hai sealed the doors and windows with concrete, while his supernatural power prevented the bodyguards from firing their guns.
• Li Hai compelled the bodyguards to bring Clinton and other officials back to the table.
• Li Hai told Clinton to make a televised address declaring that Li Hai would rule the United States.

Li Hai transformed U.S. officials into human satellites to replace the country's lost satellites and build a communications network. The network restored television, telephone, and internet service, and viewers across the United States found every channel showing the same image.

• President Clinton refused Li Hai's request to make a televised address, explaining that the United States had lost contact with its satellites.
• Li Hai transformed Bradley into a human satellite and threw him into the sky; after a general cursed, Li Hai turned him into another satellite as well.
• Li Hai transformed General Trocy and several other officials into human satellites, frightening everyone in the White House conference room.
• Li Hai gathered twenty human satellites and linked them into a television and communications network, restoring service across the United States and nearby regions.
• People turned on their televisions to find every channel broadcasting the same image.

Li Hai seized a televised address to abolish the American Federation and proclaim himself ruler of Heaven Kingdom, while Ethan Hunt resolved to confront him. Li Hai then demonstrated his power by transforming Crichton into a living television displaying satellite feeds of a carrier and nearby warships.

• Li Hai pushed Bill Clinton aside during the broadcast and declared himself God and the sole ruler of Heaven Kingdom.
• Ethan Hunt told Charles he would go to Washington to stop Li Hai, confident in his newly awakened magnetic field power.
• Li Hai announced that he would display his power to deter newly empowered challengers.
• Li Hai ordered the officials to watch, then transformed Crichton into a flesh-and-blood television.
• The television displayed nine live satellite feeds of an enormous aircraft carrier and surrounding warships.

Li Hai announced that he would destroy all nine United States carrier fleets to demonstrate his power, and explained how his psychic perception and magnetic-field abilities let him strike targets around the world. He then launched nine currents of magnetic force toward the fleets, leaving the American officials in the Commander's Office trembling as the attack began.

• Ethan Hunt realized Li Hai intended to destroy the nine carrier fleets, and Charles feared the consequences for the United States.
• Li Hai announced his plan on television, shocking American officials and the public while Gospel believers praised him.
• Li Hai explained that he could project magnetic force thousands of kilometers away and use satellite observations to target locations worldwide.
• Li Hai asked the officials which fleet he should attack first, but they stayed silent, unwilling to take responsibility.
• Li Hai mocked the officials and sent nine currents of magnetic force toward the nine carrier fleets.

Li Hai used his magnetic-field power and Jason’s Eerie Traces ability to destroy all nine United States carrier fleets in a coordinated global strike. The United States leadership and public were left terrified, and the country was declared Heaven Kingdom.

• Li Hai’s magnetic-field beam vaporized the Eisenhower carrier fleet and swept away nearby United States Navy vessels.
• Li Hai used “I Reckon” to send magnetic-field attacks across the globe, destroying the other eight United States carrier fleets.
• Ethan Hunt watched the destruction on television, panicked, and fainted, while Charles treated him with a cardiac stimulant injection.
• People across the United States reacted with terror, paralysis, panic, or despair as they witnessed the attacks.
• United States officials in the Washington White House lost confidence in their military and faced the prospect of life under Li Hai’s rule as Heaven Kingdom.

After waking from a five-day coma, Ethan learned that the United States had become Heaven Kingdom under the Supreme Commander, whose name was forbidden. Ethan and Charles escaped the hospital and found a church where Li Hai’s statue had replaced Jesus’s, while Charles recalled the regime’s ban on every other image.

• Ethan awoke in a hospital in Columbus City, discovered his magnetic field power had grown, and learned he had been unconscious for five days.
• Charles told Ethan that the United States had become Heaven Kingdom and that speaking the Supreme Commander’s name or sharing it was punishable as blasphemy.
• Charles described the government takeover, the dismantling of intelligence agencies, and the military’s bloody defeat and reorganization into the Holy Church Army.
• Ethan used his electrical power to revive himself, pulled out his IV, and jumped from the second-floor window; Charles followed him.
• Ethan and Charles drove to a church, where Ethan found Li Hai’s statue in place of Jesus’s, and Charles recalled the order to destroy all other statues and portraits.

Ethan learned that Anthony had remade the Statue of Liberty in his own image and imposed a state religion, while Charles showed him the government-issued Skynet Phone and its coercive daily faith-checking app. The chapter ended with a tiny head emerging from Charles’s phone as Charles knelt to pray to God Anthony.

• Ethan discovered that Anthony had recarved the Statue of Liberty into the Authoritarian God Statue and declared freedom, democracy, and human rights poisonous.
• Charles showed Ethan a Skynet Phone, a smartphone distributed by the Heaven government that citizens had to use for daily check-ins.
• Charles explained that more than fifteen hundred political figures and officials, including Pelosi, Lao Bideng, and Hillary, had been exiled into space as carbon-based satellites.
• Charles demonstrated the Faith Strong Nation app, whose Bible quiz punished wrong answers with electric shocks and could lead to arrest.
• After Charles completed the quiz, a tiny head emerged from the phone, and Charles knelt to pray to God Anthony.

Ethan learned about the Fist God Gloves and watched Li Hai begin a livestreamed operation to reshape Mount Rushmore. Li Hai had discovered the Emotional Path, which let intense emotions stirred by him help people awaken and strengthen Magnetic Field Rotation, and the Holy Hammer Regiment’s Seventh Company began carving the mountain.

• Charles warned Ethan that religious police used Fist God Gloves to gain superhuman abilities and told him to collect a Skynet phone.
• Charles showed Ethan a livestream announcement of Li Hai reshaping Mount Rushmore, and Ethan watched Li Hai disrupt his perception from afar.
• The chapter explained that Li Hai’s prolonged connection with believers’ intense emotions had led him to discover the Emotional Path, which could help people awaken and increase Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Skynet reported that the soldiers were in position, and Li Hai ordered the operation to begin.
• Skynet commanded the Holy Hammer Regiment’s Seventh Company to start carving, and two hundred soldiers raced toward Mount Rushmore with their tools.

Li Hai examined how the God's Forbidden Zone system could raise humans to Level 6 and approved Skynet's plan to research a magnetic-field robot. The chapter ended when a soldier reported a riot in Miami.

• Li Hai learned that Version 3.6 Fist God Gloves developed up to 20% of the brain's God's Forbidden Zone and granted Steel Rank power.
• Li Hai reviewed the system's progression from Three Forces at 10% brain development to a Super Extreme Hegemon at 100%.
• Skynet asked Li Hai for permission to study the UFO wreckage in Area 51, and Li Hai approved.
• Skynet revealed his plan to build Yafei, a robot capable of wielding magnetic-field power.
• A Holy Church Army soldier reported that a riot had broken out in Miami, Florida.