Recaps

Xia Ping revealed that he had lured the War God's remnant soul into his sea of consciousness so he could destroy it. He left the War God completely annihilated with a single strike of the Samsara Pen.

• The War God's remnant soul invaded Xia Ping's sea of consciousness and was stunned by its vastness.
• Xia Ping appeared before the War God and explained that he had detected its soul hidden in the divine throne and baited it into leaving its protection.
• The War God dismissed Xia Ping's claim to the Underworld God's power and threatened to destroy his soul.
• Xia Ping unleashed his Hell Golden Crow power and drew the Samsara Pen, alarming the War God.
• The War God pleaded that the attack was a misunderstanding, but Xia Ping struck with the Samsara Pen and shattered its divine soul.

After Xia Ping killed the War God's remnant soul, the World Tree devoured its energy and grew stronger, bringing Xia Ping a surge of power. He learned how the War God had become trapped in the War Temple and sought a body, but most of its memories—including the secrets of the previous cosmic era—were missing.

• The World Tree absorbed the War God's scattered soul energy and rapidly grew, while its leaves developed signs of nascent worlds.
• Xia Ping received vast life and cosmic origin energy from the World Tree, strengthening his mana, sea of consciousness, soul, and bloodline.
• Xia Ping learned that the War God had been betrayed and gravely wounded in the previous cosmic era before hiding in the War Temple to survive the universe's destruction.
• Xia Ping discovered that the War God had awakened in the current era but could not leave the temple without being erased, so it had hoped to possess a lifeform that entered.
• Xia Ping realized that the War God had misjudged him because the Samsara Pen could destroy divine souls, and he found that most of the War God's memories were unclear or missing.

Xia Ping discovered that Sound Pattern Mountain was the divine artifact War Horn and gathered its finest Sound Pattern Stones to strengthen the Chaos Bell. After several days of forging, the Chaos Bell advanced into a top-grade Saint artifact with devastating sound and chaos powers.

• Xia Ping learned that the War Horn was ownerless because its artifact spirit had been destroyed, and that taking it would eventually cause the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm to collapse.
• Xia Ping decided to use the highest-grade Sound Pattern Stones to strengthen the Chaos Bell instead of attempting to absorb the War Horn itself.
• Xia Ping melted the Sound Pattern Stones and hammered them into the Chaos Bell, fusing their laws of sound, vibration, and destruction into it.
• The Chaos Bell evolved into a top-grade Saint artifact and formed a chaotic world domain within itself.
• Xia Ping struck the Chaos Bell and unleashed a Demonic Sound Tide across a radius of one hundred thousand light-years, with destructive power that likely surpassed the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman.

After claiming the War Horn and stripping the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm of its treasures, Xia Ping tried to leave quietly but was surrounded by angels at the exit. The angels demanded his life, and Xia Ping prepared to fight as they ordered their forces to attack.

• Xia Ping took the War Horn and stored it in the Classic of Mountains and Seas World, causing the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm's formations to begin weakening.
• Xia Ping left the core region and headed toward the mystic realm's exit, intending to avoid drawing attention to his gains.
• Three primordial angels and their forces surrounded Xia Ping, explaining that they had waited at the only exit for him to appear.
• The angels asked where Gu Rulai had gone, and Xia Ping realized that he had escaped the earlier battle.
• Xia Ping offered to settle matters privately with money, but the angels rejected him and ordered their forces to kill him.

Xia Ping faced a united attack from three Primordial Ancient Angels and dozens of Ancient Angels, but his Chaos Bell blocked their Holy Light World domain without harming him. The angels recognized the bell as a top-grade sacred artifact and grew greedy for it as Xia Ping prepared to unleash its World-Ending Sound.

• The angels combined their world power to trap Xia Ping inside the Holy Light World and crush him.
• Xia Ping summoned the Chaos Bell, whose chaos domain repelled the attack and left him unscathed.
• The angels realized Xia Ping possessed an unknown bell-shaped top-grade sacred artifact.
• The Primordial Ancient Angels and their forces coveted the Chaos Bell, while Xia Ping activated its World-Ending Sound.

Xia Ping unleashed the supreme-grade Chaos Bell’s World-Ending Sound against the angels. It killed dozens of ancient angels and severely wounded three primordial ancient angels, while Xia Ping realized the artifact’s power exceeded his expectations.

• Xia Ping activated his natal artifact, the Chaos Bell, and poured his power of creation into it.
• The Chaos Bell unleashed waves of chaotic demonic sound that spread across hundreds of thousands of light-years and shattered the surrounding void.
• The angels recognized the sound’s deadly power and tried to retreat, but it struck them before they could escape.
• The World-Ending Sound killed dozens of ancient angels and severely injured three primordial ancient angels.
• Xia Ping noted that the Chaos Bell’s power had surpassed his expectations and that he had not yet tested its limits.

Xia Ping claimed the dead ancient angels’ corpses as the three primordial ancient angels attacked him with the Spear of Judgment. The Chaos Bell blocked the spear’s judgment light and severed its karmic lock, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xia Ping claimed the dead ancient angels’ corpses, intending to have the World Tree turn them into Creation Fruits.
• The three primordial ancient angels raged over their losses and decided to kill Xia Ping before he could escape.
• The golden primordial ancient angel wielded the Spear of Judgment and unleashed its judgment light at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping sensed the spear’s karmic lock, but the Chaos Bell reassured him that it could block the attack.
• Xia Ping poured his power of creation into the Chaos Bell, whose chaotic currents formed a barrier that stopped the judgment light and severed its karmic connection to him.

Xia Ping used the Chaos Bell to withstand the Spear of Judgment, then unleashed the Chaos Demonic Sound against the three primordial angels. Unable to evade the attack, the angels summoned the Heaven World to meet it.

• Xia Ping's Chaos Bell blocked the Spear of Judgment, leaving the primordial angels stunned.
• Xia Ping combined the Chaos Bell's chaos and sound-pattern laws to unleash the Chaos Demonic Sound across the void.
• The primordial angels realized they could neither evade the sound nor break through the Chaos Bell's defenses.
• The golden primordial angel summoned the Heaven World, with the other two angels lending their power to strengthen it.

Xia Ping used the Chaos Bell to shatter the three ancient angels’ Heaven World and mortally wound them. As they tried to flee, he killed them with Indra Finger in the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm.

• The Chaos Bell’s demonic sound overwhelmed the three ancient angels’ Heaven World, annihilating its angel phantoms and badly injuring the angels.
• The three ancient angels recovered their bodies and fled, threatening Xia Ping with the Angel Race’s revenge.
• Xia Ping tracked their souls with Indra Finger and destroyed their bodies and souls.
• The three ancient angels died in the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm, and the Spear of Judgment crashed into the ground.

After defeating the Angels, Xia Ping watched the Spear of Judgment get reclaimed by a mysterious golden eye linked to the Angel Race. He then confronted Gu Rulai, who emerged from hiding and traded accusations with him.

• Xia Ping collected the corpses of three Primordial Angels and reached for the Spear of Judgment.
• A golden Eye of the Lord appeared through a rift, seized the Spear of Judgment, and vanished as the rift closed.
• Xia Ping wondered about the Angel Race’s mysterious origins and considered visiting its headquarters.
• Xia Ping called out Gu Rulai, revealing that he had known the Ancient Saint was hiding nearby.
• Gu Rulai apologized for not joining the battle, then reproached Xia Ping for abandoning him earlier.
• Xia Ping claimed he had been lost in a spatial-temporal current for months, and Gu Rulai inwardly dismissed the excuse as a lie.

Xia Ping and Gu Rulai met after the battle in the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm, each concealing his suspicions and intentions. Xia Ping refused to take Gu Rulai back into the core region, and the two left for a meal in Mysterious Yellow City while pretending to be cordial.

• Gu Rulai recalled Xia Ping's overwhelming strength and suppressed his urge to attack him.
• Gu Rulai questioned Xia Ping about his whereabouts and suspected that he had found a supreme-grade saint artifact in the mystic realm's core region.
• Xia Ping denied obtaining any treasure and claimed that his injuries prevented him from entering the core region again for now.
• Gu Rulai suspected Xia Ping was hiding the core region's secrets but abandoned the idea of capturing him because he could not be sure of winning.
• Xia Ping and Gu Rulai exchanged false assurances of future cooperation and agreed to go for food and drinks in Mysterious Yellow City.

Xia Ping explained that he had spared Gu Rulai because the Saint could reincarnate, and only the fully unsealed Samsara Pen could destroy him for good. Later, Saints discovered that the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm’s core had been emptied, and a Primordial Ancient Saint concluded that someone had taken its treasures first.

• Xia Ping told Green Ox and Cat Immortal that Gu Rulai’s reincarnation made him too difficult to kill, so he had chosen to keep him alive and monitor him.
• Xia Ping explained that the fully unsealed Samsara Pen could erase Gu Rulai’s split souls and prevent his reincarnation, but he could not yet unleash its full power.
• Xia Ping returned to his estate in Mysterious Yellow City to examine the gains from the mystic realm.
• More than ten days later, Saints learned that the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm’s Divine Barrier had collapsed and its core region was exposed.
• Saints rushed to the core region but found it stripped of treasures, and a Primordial Ancient Saint judged that someone had looted it before them.

Saints discovered that the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm had collapsed and its core treasures were gone, and they speculated that a mysterious Saint had taken them. Gu Rulai concluded that Fengdu Saint was responsible and decided to keep the secret so he could claim the treasures himself.

• Saints arriving at the ruined realm concluded that someone had taken Sound Pattern Mountain and caused its restrictions to collapse.
• The Saints admitted they had no way to identify who had entered the realm, and news of its collapse spread throughout the universe.
• Gu Rulai suspected Fengdu Saint had taken the treasures and believed the Chaos Bell came from the mystic realm.
• Gu Rulai considered revealing his suspicions to bring Fengdu Saint trouble, but decided the risks outweighed the benefits.
• Gu Rulai resolved to keep the secret and obtain Fengdu Saint’s treasures for himself.

The Angel Race learned that Saint Fengdu had killed its elite with the Chaos Bell and likely taken the War God's inheritance from the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm. The Angels resented their loss, but the imminent Abyss Demon invasion made them unwilling to provoke conflict with the Human Race.

• A spear-wielding demigod-level Angel raged over the Angel Race's failed plan and vowed not to spare the Human Race Saint who had killed its elite.
• An Angel wearing glasses identified Saint Fengdu as the killer and said the Chaos Bell had shaken the Angels to death with its demonic sound.
• The bespectacled Angel said Fengdu had entered the mystic realm's core region and likely claimed the War God's inheritance after its restrictions collapsed.
• The blond Angel suggested exposing Fengdu to other races, but the three-eyed Angel argued that the imminent Abyss Demon invasion would prevent the news from sparking a war.
• The blond Angel lamented that Fengdu had appeared in an era when the Abyss Demons' threat kept the races from fighting over his inheritance.

The Angel Race’s demigod-level angels secretly planned to kill Fengdu Saint and reclaim the War God’s inheritance before other races learned of it. In Mysterious Yellow City, Xia Ping and his companions inventoried the vast haul from the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm, including rare Saint medicines and cosmic ores.

• The bespectacled angel argued that Fengdu Saint’s divine inheritance would not let him become a god quickly, but the three-eyed angel insisted the Angel Race would kill him before he could grow stronger.
• The three-eyed angel ordered the War God’s inheritance kept secret so the Angel Race could slay Fengdu and take it back without attracting other races.
• The spear-wielding angel demanded to join the attack on Fengdu and vowed to destroy him and his clan.
• Several days later, Xia Ping examined the treasures recovered from the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm, including hundreds of millions of years old Saint medicines preserved in Space Rings.
• Green Ox celebrated the three hundred rare Saint medicines and planned to plant them in the Classic of Mountains and Seas World.
• Cat Immortal admired the hoard of rare cosmic ores, many of which could serve as materials for powerful Saint artifacts.

Xia Ping studied a dark-golden Abyss Token and realized it could open a passage into the Abyss World, where he hoped to learn more about the Abyss Demons. After learning that the Angel Race was plotting against him, he decided to enter the Abyss World and hide while continuing to cultivate.

• Xia Ping considered letting Little Gold devour the cosmic-grade ores and examined the treasures taken from the demigods.
• Xia Ping discovered that the Abyss Token held spatial coordinates and could open a temporary passage to an Abyss Continent.
• Xia Ping decided that understanding the Abyss Demons could help him prepare for the coming abyssal war.
• The system informed Xia Ping that he had gained three hundred Hate Crystals from angering the Angel Race, bringing his total to nine thousand eight hundred.
• Xia Ping chose to enter the Abyss World to evade the Angel Race and continue improving his cultivation.

Xia Ping found a hidden spatial node near the Mysterious Yellow Continent and used the Abyss Token to summon the living Abyss Demon Gate. Disguised as Strength Demon King, he persuaded the gate to open and entered the passage to the Abyss World.

• Xia Ping searched for seven days and found the concealed spatial node on an uninhabited island near the Mysterious Yellow Continent.
• Xia Ping used the Abyss Token to summon the Abyss Gate, which revealed itself as a living demonic artifact.
• When the awakened gate questioned him, Xia Ping disguised himself as Strength Demon King with the Formless Mask.
• The Abyss Demon Gate recognized him as Strength Demon King and opened the way into the Abyss World.
• Xia Ping stepped through the gate into the Abyss.

The Abyss Demon Gate recognized Xia Ping as the returned Strength Demon King and wondered how his return would affect the Abyss World before retreating into slumber. Meanwhile, Angel Race demigods lost their ability to track Fengdu Saint and resolved to wait for another chance to kill him.

• The Abyss Demon Gate sensed Xia Ping pass into the abyss, recognized him as Strength Demon King, and speculated that his return could upset the Abyss World's balance of power.
• The Abyss Demon Gate concealed itself in spacetime and returned to sleep after satisfying its curiosity.
• Several Angel Race demigods discovered that their karmic tracking of Fengdu Saint had suddenly been severed.
• The angels considered whether Fengdu Saint had used a rare treasure or entered a powerful mystic realm, but they could not learn where he had gone.
• The angels learned that other peak races were also investigating Fengdu Saint and agreed not to alert him.
• The three-eyed angel ordered the Angel Race to wait for an opportunity to exploit Fengdu Saint's weaknesses and kill him.

Xia Ping entered the Abyss World and found its dense demonic energy, hostile environment, and powerful demons made it a near-impossible place for the myriad races to conquer. He remained unsure where he had arrived and resolved to explore the abyss.

• Xia Ping passed through the Abyssal Demon Gate and arrived in a forested mountain region filled with dense Abyssal Demonic Qi.
• Xia Ping realized the abyss’s deadly environment allowed demons to retreat and recover after defeats, making them a persistent threat to the Present World Universe.
• Xia Ping considered finding a lasting solution to the abyss but gave up when he could think of none.
• Xia Ping looked up and discovered forty-nine sleeping Sunshine Demons, each at the level of an Invincible Saint.

Xia Ping’s Hell Golden Crow Bloodline awakened the hunger of the Sunshine Demons, who began searching the Abyss Continent for him. Their premature mass awakening alarmed the Abyss Kings and threatened the alliance that kept the demons in check.

• Xia Ping realized the Sunshine Demons had sensed his aura and concealed himself to avoid being found.
• The Sunshine Demons recognized a powerful bloodline that could help them become Demon Gods and began searching for its source.
• Dozens of Sunshine Demons awakened and swept the Abyss Continent with their divine senses and dark beams of light.
• An Abyss King feared the Sunshine Demons’ premature feeding cycle would break their agreement and endanger the Abyss Demons.
• Another Abyss King reported that more than thirty Sunshine Demons had awakened at once, shocking the Abyss Kings.

Forty-nine demigod-level Sunshine Demons went berserk while searching for Xia Ping, devastating the Abyss Continent. Hundreds of Abyss Kings activated a prepared restriction formation that put the demons to sleep, while Xia Ping remained hidden nearby.

• The Abyss Kings sensed all forty-nine Sunshine Demons awakening and debated whether to keep the dangerous demons as useful forces for their coming invasion of the Present World Universe.
• The Sunshine Demons searched the void for Xia Ping, killing or injuring tens of millions of Abyss Demons and damaging the continent as Xia Ping watched unseen behind the Formless Mask.
• Several hundred Abyss Kings surrounded the demons and decided to activate the restriction formations to stop their rampage.
• The Abyss Kings unleashed a grand formation that suppressed the Sunshine Demons’ power and filled them with drowsiness.
• The forty-nine Sunshine Demons fell unconscious, and the Abyss Kings marveled at how effectively the formation had subdued them.

The Abyss Kings subdued forty-nine Sunshine Demons with a divine restriction technique and planned to unleash them against the Saints of the Present World Universe when war began. Xia Ping watched from hiding, decided not to risk approaching the demons, and left to investigate his surroundings and the Abyss’s secrets.

• An Abyss King praised Lord Devil’s restriction technique, but other Abyss Kings warned that the Sunshine Demons’ undying flames would eventually burn through it.
• The Abyss Kings agreed to keep the sleeping Sunshine Demons imprisoned until war with the Present World Universe began, then use them against its Saints.
• The Abyss Kings sealed the Sunshine Demons in the void around the Demon Continent and departed.
• Xia Ping emerged after the Abyss Kings left and considered devouring the Sunshine Demons, but chose not to risk attracting the Abyss Kings’ attention.
• Xia Ping wondered what gave the Abyss confidence to wage war and decided to first learn where he was before investigating further.
• Xia Ping left the area and headed toward where the demons had gathered.

After spending more than ten days in Rock Demon City, Xia Ping learned that the Abyss had transformed under the mysterious Devil Master into a disciplined, powerful society. He realized that the myriad races of the heavens knew nothing about the Devil Master or the Abyss’s renewed strength.

• Xia Ping drank Abyssal rice wine in a tavern and observed the orderly life of the demons in Rock Demon City.
• Xia Ping learned that the Abyss had been devastated in the Primordial Era, with its demons driven back and its passages to the Present World Universe sealed.
• The Devil Master united the Abyss’s demigod-level demons and led them to study the systems and technology of the myriad races.
• The Devil Master established demon kingdoms and cities, imposed rules, and crushed demons who resisted the new order.
• Xia Ping realized the Abyss had recovered and surpassed its former strength, and he feared the losses the ignorant myriad races would suffer in a future war.

Xia Ping learned that the Abyss Continent was the Abyss Demons’ central stronghold and considered joining the Demon Hall to uncover its secrets. The Black Hole Worm elders opened hidden void passages connecting the Abyss World to the Present World Universe and the Central Universe, giving him a way to return without using the Abyss Demon Gate.

• Xia Ping learned that the Abyss Continent had been assembled by the Devil Master and had become the Abyss Demons’ vast central stronghold.
• Xia Ping decided that joining the Demon Hall might help him discover the Abyss’s hidden secrets.
• A Black Hole Worm elder told Xia Ping that the Black Hole Worms had opened void passages linking the Abyss World with Yanhuang Planet and the Mysterious Yellow Continent.
• Xia Ping praised the Black Hole Worm elders and ordered them to maintain the passages and keep them hidden.
• The Black Hole Worm elders assured Xia Ping that the passages were concealed and protected, and he realized he could escape the Abyss without being intercepted by the Abyss Kings.

Xia Ping searched for a way to infiltrate the Demon Hall and discovered its members had killed a young demon named Austin. He arrived at Austin’s corpse and considered replacing him with the power of Making Falsehood Real.

• Xia Ping decided to replace a Demon Hall demon because he could not prove a clean background or obtain a sponsor to join legitimately.
• Xia Ping sensed a sealed alley and used his divine consciousness to watch Demon Hall members standing over a dead young demon.
• The black-clothed demons revealed they had killed Austin with Soul-Extinguishing Poison because he had touched Monica, then erased evidence of their crime.
• Xia Ping appeared beside Austin’s corpse and recognized him as a suitable target to replace.