Recaps

Time Demon Morlun intervened to stop Monica and the other female demons from fighting over Xia Ping, warning them against breaking the rules of the Abyss Forbidden Land. After Morlun vanished, Xia Ping realized that even this ancient Abyss King was overshadowed by the mysterious Devil Master.

• Monica and the other female demons prepared to fight over Xia Ping, driving the nearby Abyss Demons to retreat.
• Time Demon Morlun appeared, suppressed the demons' power, and warned them that another offense would earn them ten thousand years in the Abyss Prison.
• Monica and the other demons bowed to Morlun and promised not to fight there again.
• Morlun glanced at Xia Ping and vanished, releasing the pressure that had enveloped the square.
• Xia Ping sensed Morlun's mastery of time and feared the power of the Devil Master who had made him submit.

After Grand Elder Morlun stopped the female demons from fighting over him, Xia Ping drew even more attention and envy. Nine-Armed Lion Demon Gnar Teuton plotted to kill him in the Abyss Forbidden Land, while the Night Demon King doubted Xia Ping would return alive.

• After Morlun left, the female demons vowed to claim Xia Ping before leaving, and Monica scolded him over his many admirers.
• Xia Ping joked that being handsome was not his fault, provoking envy among the surrounding Abyss Demons.
• Nine-Armed Lion Demon Gnar Teuton, jealous that Dark Spider Demon Catherine favored Xia Ping, planned to kill him in the Abyss Forbidden Land.
• Gnar Teuton told his subordinates that the demons would be scattered after entering the Forbidden Land, giving them a chance to find and attack Xia Ping.
• The Night Demon King denied that Xia Ping was his son-in-law and said Xia Ping would need to survive the Abyss Forbidden Land before he would consider the matter.

Great Elder Moren announced that the Abyss Forbidden Land competition would be decided by who obtained the most treasures, and Xia Ping considered the divine blood, divine stones, and divine artifact fragments found there. Moren opened an Abyss Demon Gate passage into the forbidden land, and the competition was about to begin.

• More than half of the Primordial Realm demons gathered in the plaza, where Xia Ping recognized the threat they posed to the Present World Universe.
• Great Elder Moren appeared and announced that the competition would be won by the demon who gained the most in the Abyss Forbidden Land.
• Xia Ping recalled Monica’s information about divine blood, divine stones, and dangerous divine artifact fragments in the forbidden land.
• Great Elder Moren tapped his scepter and summoned an Abyss Demon Gate avatar to open a passage into the forbidden land.

Xia Ping entered the Abyss Forbidden Land and found himself alone in its vast, perilous expanse. After identifying a horde of God Abominations, he faced their sudden attack.

• Great Elder Moren warned the demons that they had three months to leave the Abyss Forbidden Land before the gate reopened.
• Xia Ping entered the Abyss Demon Gate and was teleported to the forbidden land, where he saw its blood-red wasteland and dangerous spatial rifts.
• Xia Ping used his divine consciousness to survey the region and realized the demons had been scattered across its outer fringes.
• Xia Ping recognized a horde of God Abominations, creatures formed from the remnants of fallen gods and capable of regenerating and infecting their victims.
• The God Abominations sensed Xia Ping and rushed to attack him from all directions through space.

Xia Ping killed a group of God Abominations with Hell Golden Crow Flame and discovered Divine Stones among their remains. After collecting the stones, he sensed Abyss Demons approaching and sent Cat Immortal and Green Ox back into the Classic of Mountains and Seas World.

• Xia Ping used Hell Golden Crow Claw to freeze and smash the God Abominations, then burned them to ashes with Hell Golden Crow Flame.
• Xia Ping found and collected twenty or thirty golden Divine Stones left behind by the God Abominations.
• Cat Immortal and Green Ox argued over whether the Divine Stones should be used to evolve a divine artifact or cultivate spirit herbs.
• Xia Ping sensed Abyss Demons approaching and sent Cat Immortal and Green Ox back into the Classic of Mountains and Seas World.

Fifteen Primordial demons confronted Xia Ping after spotting the divine stones he had found in the Abyss Forbidden Land. Xia Ping handed the stones to Albert and used flattery to turn the demons against their strongest member.

• Fifteen Primordial demons recognized Xia Ping as Austin, the Flower Demon, and mocked his apparent weakness.
• The demons noticed the divine stones in Xia Ping’s hand and began scheming to take them from him.
• Xia Ping gave all the divine stones to Albert, the red-haired Primordial demon, and praised him as the strongest.
• Xia Ping used his illusion domain to intensify Albert’s greed and pleasure at the tribute.
• The other Primordial demons accused Albert of keeping the stones for himself and turned their hostility toward him.

Xia Ping used his illusion domain to magnify the archaic demons’ greed until they fought over the divine stones. After withdrawing safely, he realized that his illusions could manipulate emotions as well as deceive the senses.

• Xia Ping inflamed Albert’s greed and convinced him that the other archaic demons had no right to share his divine stones.
• Albert attacked the others and killed one archaic demon with his crimson spear, triggering a battle among the fourteen demons.
• Xia Ping withdrew while the archaic demons fought, and the Cat Immortal questioned how quickly they had turned on one another.
• Xia Ping explained that his illusion power had magnified their greed and recognized that manipulating emotions was a further development of his illusions.

Xia Ping advanced his illusion arts by absorbing the emotions of living beings, reaching the intermediate stage of One Thought Creates Myriad Worlds. As he emerged from his enlightenment, he found that his illusions had driven a battle among fifteen ancient demon monsters to near-annihilation.

• Xia Ping realized that advancing his illusion arts required absorbing the emotional power of living beings and sensed emotional energy throughout the void.
• Xia Ping's illusion rune devoured the emotions of the ancient demon monsters, forming an illusory world within itself.
• Xia Ping's One Thought Creates Myriad Worlds advanced to the intermediate stage, allowing him to create a hundred illusory worlds with one thought.
• Xia Ping discovered that the ancient demon monsters had fought for half a day, with Albert killed and the spoils triggering further infighting.
• Xia Ping found that only three of the fifteen ancient demon monsters remained alive, all gravely injured, while Green Ox and Cat Immortal marveled at his illusion arts.

Xia Ping revealed himself as Flower Demon Austin and killed the three remaining Primordial demons after their infighting left them badly wounded. He collected the divine stones and fed the demons’ remains to the World Tree.

• Xia Ping appeared before the three remaining Primordial demons, who blamed him for turning them against one another.
• Xia Ping caught a wounded Primordial demon’s attack and crushed it to death, revealing power far beyond that of an Immortal demon.
• The two remaining Primordial demons realized Xia Ping had hidden his strength and fled in opposite directions.
• Xia Ping struck both fleeing demons down and recovered the divine stones they had seized.
• Xia Ping gathered the demons’ flesh and blood and fed it to the World Tree.

Xia Ping confronted Dark Spider Demon Catherine and the other female Abyss Demons who had witnessed his fight, then overwhelmed them with his illusion power. He left them sealed and asleep in illusory worlds.

• Xia Ping detected the hidden female Abyss Demons and shattered the void to reveal Dark Spider Demon Catherine, the White-Faced Fox Demon, the Succubus, the Crimson Scorpion Demon, and the others.
• Catherine and the others questioned Xia Ping’s identity and the source of his strength, while he warned them against challenging him.
• The female demons dismissed Xia Ping’s threat and prepared to show him their power.
• Xia Ping unleashed the True Explanation of Illusion Arts and trapped Catherine and the others in multiple illusory worlds.
• Xia Ping watched as the female demons fell asleep, sealed and unable to move or use their Abyssal powers.

Xia Ping used layered illusions to seal the female demon lords, captured them in the Classic of Mountains and Seas World, and left the battle site. A group of Primordial Demons arrived afterward, found no bodies or clear trace of him, and departed without investigating further.

• Xia Ping sealed Dark Spider Demon Catherine and the other female demon lords in overlapping illusion worlds.
• Xia Ping captured the female demon lords in the Classic of Mountains and Seas World and left the battle site to avoid being discovered.
• Several dozen Primordial Demons arrived and a hound Primordial Demon concluded that fifteen Primordial Demons had died and a hidden third party had taken advantage of the battle.
• The hound Primordial Demon suspected there might also have been a fourth party but could not identify it.
• The ancient demon leading the group decided they should leave, and the Primordial Demons departed to search for treasures elsewhere.

Xia Ping hid in the Classic of Mountains and Seas World and refined divine stones to strengthen himself, then began attempting to advance from the peak of the Ancient Realm to the Primordial Realm. His Creation Domain started to transform toward a World Domain, but the enormous energy required made the breakthrough uncertain.

• Xia Ping secluded himself in the Classic of Mountains and Seas World to cultivate rather than pursue a high ranking in the Abyss Forbidden Land competition.
• Xia Ping refined divine stones with the Hell Furnace, rapidly increasing his cultivation and transforming his Creation Domain.
• Xia Ping decided to attempt the Primordial Realm breakthrough, hoping to condense world laws and gain the power of worlds.
• Xia Ping set his Creation Domain into motion, weaving its laws together as his cosmic source energy drained at an immense rate.

Xia Ping attempted to break through to the Primordial Realm, using up all thirty divine stones as he tempered and solidified his Creation Domain. He failed to condense world laws, but reached the half-step Primordial Realm and left with greatly increased power.

• Xia Ping drew on his World Fruits and divine stones as he attempted to advance into the Primordial Realm.
• Xia Ping transformed his Creation Domain toward an embryonic world by combining the laws of space, time, and creation with immortal qi.
• Xia Ping exhausted all thirty divine stones, but could not condense world laws or cross into the Primordial Realm.
• Xia Ping realized that he lacked a crucial insight into world laws and ended the attempt.
• Xia Ping's Creation Domain, mana, bloodline abilities, and cells grew stronger, raising him to the half-step Primordial Realm.

After emerging from seclusion, Xia Ping entered the Abyss Forbidden Land and discovered a battle over a fallen god’s treasures. When the battle’s shockwaves exposed him, he found himself surrounded by more than a thousand Primordial Realm demons, including Monica.

• Xia Ping left the Classic of Mountains and Seas World and sensed a huge battle in the Abyss Forbidden Land.
• Xia Ping hid near the battlefield and learned that the demons were fighting over divine blood, a vein of divine stones, and fragments of divine artifacts.
• Xia Ping hoped the two sides would exhaust each other so he could seize their treasures and corpses.
• A wave of law fluctuations struck Xia Ping’s hiding place and revealed him to the battling demons.
• Monica recognized Austin and was surprised to see him, while the demons around her were attacking her as a major force on the battlefield.

Xia Ping, known as Flower Demon Austin, was discovered hiding near the battlefield where Moon Demon Monica and other female demons faced off against rival Primordial demons. After Gabriel attacked him, Xia Ping blocked the Primordial demon’s full-force claw with one finger, leaving the demons stunned.

• Xia Ping tried to leave after his concealment was exposed, but Gabriel attacked him.
• Monica and the other female demons tried to intervene, but rival Primordial demons blocked them.
• Gabriel struck Xia Ping with a claw empowered by world laws, expecting to kill him.
• Xia Ping stopped Gabriel’s claw with one finger and remained unharmed.
• The Primordial demons and the female demons stared in disbelief at Xia Ping’s unexpected power.

Flower Demon Austin killed a primordial demon with one punch, shocking the demons gathered in the Abyss Forbidden Land. As his former companions argued over his strength, Nine-Armed Lion Demon Gnar Teuton suspected Austin had killed its son but hesitated to seek revenge.

• Xia Ping, as Flower Demon Austin, struck the primordial demon with a punch that shattered its body and soul.
• The gathered primordial demons were stunned that Austin had killed one of their kind in a single blow.
• Thunder Demon Samantha and Moon Demon Monica argued over whether either of them had known Austin's true strength.
• Bone Demon Jennifer and the Nine-Headed Serpent Demon wondered whether Austin had gained power through a fortuitous opportunity, while Monica admitted she did not know.
• A primordial demon from Rock Demon City connected Austin's strength to the death of Six-Armed Lion Demon Qibuman, and Nine-Armed Lion Demon Gnar Teuton feared that seeking revenge would get it killed.

Xia Ping faced more than a hundred Primordial Ancient Saint demons who joined forces to attack him. He used the Eternal Clock to freeze time, captured and sealed the demons, and left the battlefield after time resumed.

• A Primordial Ancient Saint demon accused Xia Ping of hiding his strength and threatened to torture him.
• More than a hundred Primordial Ancient Saint demons, including Nine-Armed Lion Demon Gnar Teuton, surrounded Xia Ping and attacked with their World Domains.
• Moon Demon Monica and the other female demons watched in alarm as Xia Ping confronted the combined assault.
• Xia Ping summoned the Eternal Clock and froze the spacetime of every demon nearby, including the demons who had not attacked.
• Xia Ping captured the frozen demons in the Classic of Mountains and Seas World and sealed their power with the Six Paths Sealing Technique.
• The Eternal Clock resumed time, and the demons had vanished from the battlefield.

Xia Ping recalled the Eternal Clock after sealing more than a thousand primordial ancient demons, then collected divine stones, divine blood, and divine artifact fragments. He learned that the fragments could restore their shattered artifact and began refining them to locate the remaining pieces.

• Xia Ping recalled the Eternal Clock after it sealed more than a thousand primordial ancient demons inside the Classic of Mountains and Seas World.
• Green Ox and Cat Immortal discussed the Eternal Clock’s immense power and the strength required to wield a divine artifact.
• Xia Ping gathered the divine stones, divine blood, and fifty or sixty divine artifact fragments scattered across the ground.
• The system confirmed that divine artifacts could recover if their core divinity survived, and Xia Ping realized that he had sixty-four of the artifact’s eighty-one fragments.
• Xia Ping used Hell Golden Crow Flame to purify and refine the fragments, intending to use them to find the seventeen pieces still scattered in the Abyss Forbidden Land.

After finding eighty artifact fragments, Xia Ping determined that the crucial core fragment lay in the inner region of the Abyss Forbidden Land. He sent his Kunpeng Clone inside to search, where it survived the deadly calamities and encountered a lifeless land filled with undead.

• Xia Ping found eighty artifact fragments and sensed that the missing core piece was in the inner region of the Abyss Forbidden Land.
• Xia Ping hid his true body in a concealed cave and sent his Kunpeng Clone to scout the inner region.
• Xia Ping entered the inner region and used Kunpeng Divine Ability: Rebound to deflect the Abyss Black Lightning.
• Xia Ping used Kunpeng Divine Ability: Phasing to avoid the black void wind and other calamities.
• Xia Ping explored the dead land and sensed divine blood, God Abominations, and resentful spirits wandering through it.

Xia Ping reached the deepest part of the Abyss Forbidden Land and discovered a vast black tree feeding on eighteen god corpses. The divine artifact fragment he sought lay beside one of the corpses, but the tree’s overwhelming power made it impossible for him to approach.

• Xia Ping used the Kunpeng Clone to evade the dangers and creatures of the Abyss Forbidden Land while following the divine artifact fragments’ resonance.
• Xia Ping found an immense black tree at the center of a clearing, radiating abyssal power and covered in skulls, vengeful souls, and twisted runes.
• Xia Ping saw that the tree’s roots were draining the energy and divinity from eighteen golden god corpses beneath it.
• Xia Ping located the divine artifact fragment beside one corpse but realized the tree’s domain would expose him if he approached.
• Xia Ping suspected the black tree might be the Abyss World’s supreme Demon, the Devil Master, and recognized its godlike strength.

Xia Ping discovered a black-robed elder beneath the black tree who looked exactly like Universe Ancestor, leading him to suspect that the Universe Sect’s founder was the Abyss World’s Devil Master. Before he could resolve his doubts, the Abyss Forbidden Land shook and the Machine Race’s divine artifact, the Southern Heaven Gate, appeared in the sky.

• Xia Ping spotted a black-robed elder cultivating beneath the black tree and noticed a palace behind it.
• Xia Ping recognized the elder’s face as identical to Universe Ancestor’s and wondered whether he had become the Devil Master.
• The Abyss Forbidden Land trembled violently, and a vast rift split open in the sky.
• Xia Ping identified the enormous silver gate emerging from the rift as the Machine Race’s divine artifact, the Southern Heaven Gate.

Xia Ping watched as the myriad races used the Southern Heaven Gate to launch an invasion of the Abyss World. The Invincible Saints prepared to hold off the Abyss Kings for half an hour, while the sleeping Sunshine Demons left the invaders facing less resistance than expected.

• Xia Ping recognized the Southern Heaven Gate and realized the myriad races had joined forces to strike the Abyss World first.
• The Southern Heaven Gate opened, and Invincible Saints from the peak races, including Carefree Patriarch, Primordial Patriarch, Void Patriarch, and Beiming Patriarch, entered the Abyss World.
• The Abyss Kings learned of the invasion and argued over the recent Sunshine Demon riot, suspecting the saints might have caused it.
• The Abyss Kings charged the Invincible Saints, unleashing killing moves as more saints emerged from the Southern Heaven Gate.
• An Invincible Saint of the Element Race ordered the invaders to hold off the Abyss Kings for half an hour, while an Invincible Saint of the Machine Race reported that the Sunshine Demons were asleep.

The invincible Saints of the Present World Universe debated their plan as the Abyss Kings approached, and North Nether Saint was assigned its crucial task. While the Saints fought to hold off the Abyss Kings, North Nether Saint slipped away unseen, beginning a mission with only half a shichen to return.

• An Angel Race Saint and a Buddhist Sect Buddha clashed over their faiths until a Fairy Race Saint stopped them.
• A Demon Race Saint questioned whether North Nether Saint could be trusted with the plan, but Void Patriarch defended his strength and secrecy.
• North Nether Saint told the other Saints to hold back the Abyss Kings while he handled the rest, and Primordial Patriarch warned an ancient remnant patriarch not to challenge him.
• The invincible Saints flew out from the Southern Heaven Gate and battled the enraged Abyss Kings as the void erupted around them.
• Carefree Patriarch told North Nether Saint that they could hold out for half a shichen, and North Nether Saint vanished without the Abyss Kings noticing.

Xia Ping overheard the North Nether Saint address the mysterious old man as his master and learned that he was the long-missing Universe Ancestor. The Universe Ancestor revealed that the Human Race had sent him into the Abyss World as a spy because his half-human, half-demon bloodline let him resist Abyssal Demonic Qi, but he said he could no longer return.

• Xia Ping watched the battle above the Abyss Continent and wondered whether the old man beneath the great tree would leave.
• The North Nether Saint appeared in the Abyss Forbidden Land and called the old man his master.
• The Universe Ancestor opened his eyes and told the North Nether Saint that he could not return to the Human Race.
• The North Nether Saint explained that the Human Race had sent the Universe Ancestor into the Abyss World to uncover its secrets, leaving him with little support.
• The Universe Ancestor confirmed that his half-human, half-demon bloodline had made him suitable to infiltrate the Abyss World.

Universe Ancestor explained how his long undercover mission in the Abyss World had left him unable to return, and revealed that the mature Abyssal Demon Tree was the abyss’s ultimate weapon for transforming the Present World Universe. He merged his identity as Universe Ancestor with the Devil Master, refused North Nether Saint’s appeal, and attacked him.

• Universe Ancestor recounted how he entered the Abyss World as a Human Race spy, rose to become its Devil Master, and waited in vain for the mission to end.
• Universe Ancestor warned North Nether Saint and his companions to leave, saying he could no longer turn back and would kill them if they stayed.
• North Nether Saint suspected the Abyssal Demon Tree had corrupted Universe Ancestor, while the chapter revealed the tree was the abyss’s mature ultimate weapon, capable of spreading the Abyss World throughout the universe.
• Universe Ancestor declared that he and the Devil Master had become one and that the myriad races were doomed, then rose and unleashed the tree’s abyssal power.
• North Nether Saint stood his ground and challenged his master, and Universe Ancestor answered by punching through the void.