Chapter Summaries

Li Hai entered a prehistoric world where cuisine governed the Dao and learned that opening a world gate required winning Hongjun Sacred Chef’s Primordial Food God Competition. After interrogating a surviving demon, he discovered that this world had been born from Pangu’s wonton-cooking pot exploding.

• Li Hai arrived at Mount Buzhou, scanned the prehistoric world, and learned from Demon Chant that he needed to win Hongjun Sacred Chef’s competition to manifest a world gate.
• Li Hai found demons cooking captured humans in a giant cauldron, killed most of the demons, and began questioning the survivors.
• Li Hai crushed an old turtle demon that refused to answer, then threatened a beef omasum spirit until it agreed to explain the world.
• The omasum spirit told Li Hai that Pangu’s exploding pot of wontons had created the prehistoric world and made cuisine its governing Dao.
• The omasum spirit explained that Hongjun was called the Prison Patriarch because he viewed the world as a prison eased by fine food, and that his Three Pure Ones were named Prison One, Prison Two, and Prison Three.

Li Hai learned how the Food God Tournament worked and heard the Garlic Spirit describe the Primordial Wilderness’s nine culinary factions. He decided to seek a Golden Recommendation Jade Silk in Witch Race territory, then minced the Garlic Spirit and continued eating hotpot.

• Li Hai questioned the cilantro spirit and Garlic Spirit about the Food God Tournament and learned that it required a Golden Recommendation Jade Silk, Chaos Origin-grade ingredients, and nine contestants in a single round.
• Li Hai killed the cilantro spirit after it failed to answer his question, then asked the Garlic Spirit whether primordial beings could be used as ingredients.
• The Garlic Spirit explained the tournament’s entry requirements and described the Shovel Sect, Severance Sect, Human Sect, Western Sect, and five other major factions.
• Li Hai learned that the Witch Race was renowned for barbecue and decided to visit its territory to obtain a recommendation jade silk.
• Li Hai turned the Garlic Spirit into minced garlic and continued feasting on hotpot.

Li Hai traveled to Tianshan, defeated Ancestral Witch Dijiang, and took the golden jade silk through his reality-altering power. He then wiped Dijiang’s memories and consciousness and carried him off to serve as the main dish in the God of Food Competition.

• Li Hai used his divine sense to cross trillions of light-years and arrived at Tianshan.
• Li Hai transformed into Super Saiyan First Form, raised his power to early Level 11, and crushed peak Level 10 Dijiang.
• Li Hai claimed Dijiang had given him the golden jade silk by inserting and deleting a passage from the story.
• Li Hai decided to roast Dijiang as the main dish for the God of Food Competition.
• Li Hai wiped Dijiang’s consciousness and memories and flew away carrying him.

Li Hai arrived at the Purple Sky Food Palace to enter the God of Food Tournament and encountered Hongjun, who seemed to know that their universe was an illusion. Hongjun opened the palace and announced the tournament’s start.

• Li Hai traveled to the Purple Sky Food Palace, where he planned to compete using a secret seasoning and his cooking skills.
• Kuang Pi challenged Li Hai, but Li Hai’s words made him fall silent; Kuang Pi’s seventh grand-uncle also obeyed Li Hai after confronting him.
• The Dragon Ancestor sensed Li Hai’s power and watched him, but Hongjun’s arrival interrupted the confrontation.
• Hongjun asked Li Hai why he had come, and Li Hai said he wanted to enter the God of Food Tournament.
• Li Hai and the demon suspected that Hongjun knew their universe was an illusion, while Li Hai considered whether Hongjun was an avatar.
• Hongjun invited everyone into the palace and announced that the God of Food Tournament had begun.

At the God of Cooking Competition, Li Hai prepared a dish from the half-dead Ancestral Witch Dijiang while Hongjun kept the furious Witch Clan in check. As the contestants’ dishes neared completion, Li Hai’s Mixed-Origin Cannabis-Roasted Dijiang was still roasting.

• Li Hai placed the half-dead Dijiang on his chopping board, shocking the gathered factions, and Hongjun imprisoned the Ancestral Witches when they tried to attack.
• Hongjun ordered the cooking competition to begin, and contestants from the nine great culinary factions started preparing their dishes.
• Li Hai removed Dijiang’s organs, stuffed his body with seasonings, and marinated him while the Witch Clan watched in fury.
• Hongjun promised to resurrect Dijiang after the competition, and Li Hai skewered and roasted him with a lethal dose of Mixed-Origin-grade cannabis.
• As time passed, the contestants’ dishes took shape, including the Shovel Sect contestant’s miniature-world-like creation and the Human Sect contestant’s fragrant yin-yang porridge.

Li Hai demanded that the judges taste his seemingly plain Primal Marijuana-Roasted Dijiang before the other contestants’ dishes, claiming it surpassed them all. Its fragrance and Chaos-level cannabis overwhelmed the audience and left the three Saint Chefs intoxicated with delight.

• The other factions completed their elaborate dishes, while the judges and Witch Clan members dismissed or eyed Li Hai’s roasted Dijiang with skepticism and anger.
• Li Hai insisted on being judged first and claimed one bite of his Dijiang meat was worth all the other dishes combined.
• Hongjun allowed Li Hai to go first, and an attendant brought the roasted Dijiang to the judges’ table.
• The dish’s fragrance swept through Purple Sky Food Palace, causing lower-cultivation attendees to lose control and even making Dan You fantasize about eating Xuanming.
• Tongtian, Taiqing, and Yuanshi tasted the Dijiang meat and reacted with astonishment and blissful intoxication.
• Yuanshi asked what seasoning Li Hai had used, and Li Hai revealed that he had added Chaos-level cannabis.

Li Hai’s da ma-laced Dijiang dish intoxicated the guests and spread its effects across the primordial world, but Hongjun disqualified him for using an unorthodox ingredient. Enraged, Li Hai transformed and battered Hongjun, ending with a demand that Hongjun award him the championship.

• The Three Pure Ones and the other guests ate the roasted Dijiang and became intoxicated as its da ma power spread through the Purple Sky Food Palace and the primordial world.
• Hongjun tasted the Dijiang, then told Li Hai that using da ma disqualified him from the cooking competition.
• Li Hai transformed into Super Saiyan 4 and unleashed an aura that annihilated the guests, the palace, and the surrounding universes.
• Li Hai punched Hongjun through the prehistoric world and continued beating him in the Blood Sea.
• Li Hai grabbed Hongjun by the neck and demanded that he give him the championship.

Li Hai opened the world gate from the prehistoric world by forcing Hongjun to name him the God of Cookery Tournament champion, then entered a modern Japanese world. He destroyed Japan to end the entanglement among Makoto Ito, Kotonoha Katsura, and Sekai Saionji, opening the next gate.

• Li Hai forced Hongjun to declare him the tournament champion, satisfying the condition for opening the world gate.
• Hongjun threatened that his true body would descend, so Li Hai killed him and left the prehistoric world.
• Li Hai arrived in Japan and learned that he had to resolve the entanglement between Makoto Ito, Kotonoha Katsura, and Sekai Saionji.
• Li Hai decided to eliminate all three by destroying Japan, and his blast reduced the archipelago to a wasteland.
• The cross-stage gate appeared after Li Hai’s destruction of Japan ended the trio’s Shura field.

Li Hai reached the Fourth World Pass, where opening the gate required five landmine-type girls to mature. He altered the condition and burned Japan until the girls were roasted, opening the gate before leaving the ruined world.

• Li Hai learned that Toyokawa Sakiko, Takakaze Sa, Aragaki Ayase, Furong Feng, and Matsuzaka Sato had to mature for the World Gate to open.
• Li Hai used his power of absurdity to change the condition from making the five girls mature to making them cooked.
• Li Hai summoned countless B-29 bombers, which carpet-bombed Tokyo and then spread fires across Japan.
• The inferno killed the Japanese population and roasted the five girls, while foreigners in Japan remained unharmed.
• Li Hai watched the realm gate appear, then stepped through and left the burning Japanese Archipelago behind.

Li Hai reached the Demon Slayer world after Yoriichi Tsugikuni had died following his final encounter with Kokushibo. He injected Yoriichi’s corpse with an enhanced Golden Light Virus and left Muzan’s defeat to him.

• Li Hai learned that he had to stop Kibutsuji Muzan and his demons from invading humanity, then traveled to Blue Star.
• Eighty-five-year-old Yoriichi Tsugikuni met Kokushibo, who challenged him to a sword fight.
• Yoriichi’s blade effortlessly dispersed Kokushibo’s attack, but Kokushibo then cut him in half and realized Yoriichi had already died.
• Kokushibo picked up the two pieces of Yoriichi’s broken flute and vanished into the forest.
• Li Hai enhanced the Blacklight Virus into the Golden Light Virus, injected it into Yoriichi’s corpse, and left Muzan’s defeat to him.

Li Hai learned that defeating the Qu civilization and rescuing its human descendants could upgrade the realm gate, so he set out to find them. Meanwhile, Yoriichi Tsugikuni returned from the dead with immense power and discovered that sunlight strengthened him instead of harming him.

• The demon told Li Hai that defeating the Qu civilization and giving hope to its transformed human descendants could upgrade the realm gate and let him cross more realm barriers.
• Li Hai decided to investigate the Qu civilization, then warped toward a destination 150 billion light-years away and urged Yoriichi Tsugikuni not to disappoint him.
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni resurrected at his peak, found his body superhumanly durable and immortal, and concluded that he had become a demon.
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni waited for dawn, but sunlight caused him no pain and instead strengthened him; he felt no hunger for flesh or blood.
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni set off to destroy Kibutsuji Muzan and then travel to the Yellow Springs.

Yoriichi Tsugikuni returned young and overwhelmingly powerful, then killed Kokushibo and Muzan with his Nineteenth Form, destroying every demon in Japan. After emerging beneath the moon, Yoriichi extinguished himself and vanished.

• Muzan learned from Kokushibo that Yoriichi had died of old age and set out to burn his corpse and slaughter humans.
• Yoriichi appeared in the corridor, revealing that he had returned to life and challenging Muzan and Kokushibo.
• Yoriichi unleashed Sun Breathing, Nineteenth Form, vaporizing Kokushibo and burning away Muzan as he fled in fragments.
• Muzan's death caused the demons throughout Japan to perish, ending the demon race.
• Yoriichi escaped the underground ruins, gazed at the moon, and then turned into bloodwater and vanished.

Li Hai discovered that many strange species across the universe might be humans transformed by the Qu Civilization, then found a population of giant dragonfly-like beings in star-sized pyramids. He punished the Qu by transforming them into Snow Kirby and continued deeper into the universe.

• After learning that the realm gate could now be manifested, Li Hai named the orca-like ocean dwellers Fishfolk and suspected that they were human descendants altered by the Qu Civilization.
• Li Hai sensed millions of star-sized pyramids and found trillions of intelligent, giant dragonfly-like beings living inside them.
• Li Hai trapped a nearby pyramid in extreme gravity, then entered it after the Qu rapidly repaired the damage and resurrected their dead.
• The Qu recognized Li Hai as a purebred human and discussed capturing and modifying him, so Li Hai identified them as the Qu Civilization.
• Li Hai snapped his fingers and transformed the Qu into Snow Kirby condemned to endure endless pain, then left the pyramid and sped deeper into the universe.

Li Hai annihilated a million Qu race warships by transforming them into toilets and their occupants into Snow Kirbys, then found the Star People hiding in a meteor belt. He told them he was a human traveler from a real, higher-dimensional universe, and they asked why he had come to theirs.

• Li Hai absorbed the Qu race’s attacks and transformed a million of its pyramids and inhabitants into toilets and Snow Kirbys.
• Li Hai traced a message asking if he was humanity’s god to a hidden settlement inside a meteor belt millions of light-years away.
• Three Star People introduced themselves as the sole remaining legitimate descendants of Earth’s human civilization and explained that the Qu race had altered the ancestors of other species.
• Li Hai told the Star People he had come from a real, higher-dimensional universe and that their universe was only a projection of it.
• The shortest Star Person asked Li Hai what had brought him to their lower-dimensional universe.

A short Star Person explained how the Qu Civilization had conquered humanity and engineered its descendants into thousands of tortured forms. After hearing how the Qu had treated humanity, Li Hai asked where their main base was so he could kill them.

• A short Star Person showed Li Hai a three-dimensional history of humanity's expansion across the Galaxy and its discovery of dinosaur genes on a distant planet.
• The short Star Person recounted how the Qu Civilization had defeated humanity across thirty-three galaxies in a year, leaving the ancestors of the Star People to flee into space.
• The short Star Person described how the Qu had transformed captured humans into monstrous species, including antelopes, predators, and carpet-like descendants that survived on Qu waste.
• Li Hai condemned the Qu race and asked the three Star People to reveal its main base so he could kill them.

Li Hai learned that the Qu Civilization’s true nest lay at the edge of the observable universe and left to confront it, while the Qu Council reacted to his destruction of its million-strong Central Star Sea garrison. Grand Speaker EDE urged the council to fight, insisting the Qu held an overwhelming numerical advantage.

• The tall Star Person warned Li Hai that the Qu headquarters held forces far stronger than the regional fleet, but Li Hai vanished before he could finish.
• The Qu Council watched footage of Li Hai surviving the bombardment of a million pyramids and transforming the vessels and their crews.
• The Qu Speaker learned that Li Hai’s power might exceed the Qu Civilization’s theoretical limits, and the councilors panicked.
• EDE recalled the Qu Civilization’s past victories in the Central Star Sea and argued that its forces still outnumbered Li Hai by a trillion to one.
• Qu councilors questioned how their weapons could stop Li Hai, but EDE dismissed their fears and insisted the Qu had the advantage.

Li Hai destroyed the Qu fleet and pyramid, then transformed the Qu into Qu Angels tasked with guiding humanity’s descendants. Before leaving the universe, he discovered a statue of the Calamity Lord that made the Study Hard system tremble.

• Li Hai erased the trillion Qu pyramid ships and made the supermassive pyramid disappear, forcing High Speaker EDE and the Qu councilors to surrender.
• Li Hai told the three Star People that he had transformed the Qu into loyal nannies for humanity’s descendants and gathered the scattered Qu throughout the universe.
• Li Hai explained that Qu Angels would guide human civilizations on billions of inhabited planets until those civilizations matured, then annihilate themselves after completing their atonement.
• Li Hai warned the Star People not to contact developing human descendants until they had reached the interstellar age, and the Star People promised to accept them as humanity.
• Li Hai headed for the edge of the universe but stopped on a neutron star to inspect a statue of the Calamity Lord, whose appearance resembled a giant moth-like Qu.

Li Hai discovered a statue of the Calamity Lord in the Qu race’s universe, then traveled to the ninth boundary, the One Piece world, where he had to overthrow the World Government using only Haki and Devil Fruit powers. He mastered Haki and some of the Navy’s Six Powers, landed on the Going Merry, and told Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji that he was an alien.

• Li Hai found a statue of the Calamity Lord in the Qu race’s nest, received 100 fragments from the Study Hard system, and stored the statue in the Origin Realm.
• Li Hai crossed into the ninth boundary and learned that he had to overthrow the World Government using Haki and Devil Fruit abilities.
• Li Hai created an ordinary human body, entered it, and learned all three types of Haki and some of the Navy’s Six Powers by observing Luffy.
• Li Hai strengthened his body, used Shave and Moonwalk to reach the Going Merry, and startled Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji.
• Li Hai reassured the crew and introduced himself as an alien.

Li Hai told the Straw Hat Crew that he came from Planet Vegeta and intended to overthrow the World Government so he could travel to another world. After buying Nami’s Squid-Squid Fruit, he ate it, mastered its power, and awakened it into a Mythical Zoan: Cthulhu Form.

• Luffy learned that Li Hai was an alien Saiyan from Planet Vegeta and invited him to fight or join the crew.
• Li Hai revealed his goal of overthrowing the World Government and said he needed a Devil Fruit to become invincible.
• Li Hai used hypnosis to learn that Nami had a Devil Fruit, then offered her gold and jewels worth about one billion Beli for it.
• Nami sold Li Hai the Squid-Squid Fruit, and he ate it, transforming into a tentacled octopus-like creature.
• Li Hai pushed the fruit’s power to its limit, grew to one hundred meters tall, and awakened it into a Mythical Zoan: Cthulhu Form.
• Li Hai’s awakened form expanded until he stood ten thousand meters tall above the sea.

Li Hai awakened his Squid-Squid Fruit into the colossal Cthulhu form and demonstrated its godlike powers as he strode across the sea toward the Holy Land Mary Geoise. He ignored Hawkeye Mihawk’s challenge, but stopped when Mihawk insulted him.

• Li Hai transformed into a ten-thousand-meter Cthulhu, unleashing immense Haki and frightening the Straw Hat Crew from afar.
• Li Hai revealed that his Cthulhu form could cause mental corruption, reconstruct reality, and assimilate the world into R'lyeh.
• Li Hai crossed the sea toward the Holy Land Mary Geoise, unaffected by the usual drawbacks of being a Devil Fruit user.
• Hawkeye Mihawk approached Li Hai by boat and challenged him to a fight, but Li Hai ignored him.
• Mihawk taunted Li Hai for being deaf and unable to withstand a slash, and Li Hai stopped walking.