Recaps

After Nie Zhen was reported killed by Wu Wudi in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, God of War Academy’s teachers demanded that every student be investigated. Yanhuang University and the other schools refused to cooperate and left, while Xia Ping departed with Yanhuang University, his expression calm.

• A God of War Academy teacher learned that Nie Zhen had been killed by Wu Wudi and demanded to know who the killer was.
• God of War Academy’s teachers threatened to question every student and prevent anyone from leaving until they found Wu Wudi.
• A Yanhuang University teacher told the school’s students to leave, and Xia Ping joined them without showing any alarm.
• Teachers from other universities mocked God of War Academy’s demands and left with their students.
• God of War Academy’s teachers were left furious after the other schools ignored them.

Xia Ping began assimilating the Hell Golden Crow Bloodline, accepting the system’s help to reduce the fusion’s deadly risks. When the bloodline tried to devour his body and soul, mysterious chains suppressed it, allowing it to fuse into his cells; Xia Ping then fell asleep as black energy enveloped him.

• Xia Ping returned to his villa at Yanhuang University and asked the system to assimilate the Hell Golden Crow Bloodline.
• The system warned Xia Ping that fusion carried a seventy percent chance of death unless he spent five million Hate Points to reduce the risk.
• Xia Ping paid the cost, and the Hell Golden Crow Bloodline entered his body and began devouring his human cells while its soul attacked his soul.
• Mysterious chains surged from the depths of Xia Ping’s soul, suppressing the Hell Golden Crow soul and sealing its cells within his own.
• Xia Ping used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art as the bloodline fused into his cells, then fell asleep beneath a shroud of black energy.

The Nie Family gathered after Nie Zhen was killed in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, and Wolf King Nie Wudao ordered them to hunt down the mysterious Wu Wudi. The family could not identify the killer, but learned that he had used extraordinary, unfamiliar swordsmanship and killed the other students with a single punch.

• Nie Wudao summoned the Nie Family elders and demanded to know how Nie Zhen had died.
• An elder reported that a student called Wu Wudi had killed Nie Zhen and left no body behind.
• Nie Wudao ordered the family to find Wu Wudi, torture him to death, and wipe out his clan.
• An elder said the Nie Family had searched university student registers but found no one named Wu Wudi.
• The elders debated whether the killing was planned by an enemy or caused by a fight over a treasure.
• An elder described the killer's peerless, unknown sword technique and said he had killed the other students with a single punch.

After Nie Zhen was killed, the Nie Family debated who could have overcome him and identified Wu Wudi as the target of their investigation. Nie Wudao announced an enormous bounty for Wu Wudi, setting the Cloud Sky Realm ablaze with the prospect of the reward.

• The Nie Family elders struggled to believe that anyone could have killed Nie Zhen, given his Three-Eyed Wolf Bloodline and Golden Light Mirror.
• An elder proposed that Nie Zhen’s killer was either a powerful King Family descendant, an unexpectedly strong commoner, or possibly Wu Wudi in disguise as a demon.
• The Nie Family narrowed its search to Martial Master students and found 8,763 suspects after excluding those with alibis; Xia Ping appeared on the list but seemed unlikely to be the killer.
• Nie Wudao announced a bounty of five hundred billion Federal Coins, a treasure, and a Century Turtle Longevity Pill for information about or the death of Wu Wudi.
• The Nie Family elders realized the rewards could tempt martial artists and powerful figures across the Cloud Sky Realm to hunt Wu Wudi.

The Nie Family’s enormous bounty for Wu Wudi set off a frenzy among students, assassins, martial organizations, and experts across the Cloud Sky Realm. After seven days and nights, Xia Ping woke up in a villa at Yanhuang University.

• The Nie Family offered five hundred billion Federal Coins, a treasure, and a longevity pill to whoever killed Wu Wudi, and martial artists across the underworld discussed the bounty.
• Students from universities across the Cloud Sky Realm became eager to claim the reward.
• An assassin organization decided to pursue Wu Wudi, believing that finding him first mattered more than strength.
• An old King-level expert learned the bounty included a Century Turtle Longevity Pill and left his cave to kill Wu Wudi.
• Seven days and seven nights passed, and Xia Ping woke up in a villa at Yanhuang University.

Xia Ping completed his initial fusion with the Hell Golden Crow Bloodline, reaching the peak of the Martial Master First Heaven Realm before his aura drew Heaven’s Retribution over Yanhuang University. The chapter leaves Xia Ping facing a massive bolt of red lightning striking his villa.

• Xia Ping woke from the fusion with greatly enhanced strength, twelve newly opened meridians, and the beginnings of an imperishable Vajra body.
• The system explained that the Hell Golden Crow Bloodline had been sealed and would be refined gradually as Xia Ping’s cultivation advanced.
• Xia Ping sensed Hell Golden Crow energy within his cells and circulated his true essence, sending a powerful infernal aura into the sky.
• A vast black cloud and chaotic red lightning appeared over Yanhuang University, alarming its students and King-class experts.
• The system identified the phenomenon as Heaven’s Retribution, explaining that the world’s laws sought to destroy the foreign bloodline and would temper Xia Ping with lightning as he grew stronger.
• A barrel-thick red bolt descended from the clouds and struck Xia Ping’s villa.

A heavenly tribulation unleashed a barrage of red thunderbolts against Xia Ping’s villa at Yanhuang University, while the university’s defensive system shielded him and enraged the heavens further. As the defenses weakened, the system warned Xia Ping that eighty-one more bolts would strike at once.

• Yanhuang University’s energy shield blocked the first red thunderbolt aimed at Xia Ping.
• The heavens escalated the assault, sending waves of lightning at Xia Ping’s villa and causing chaos among the students.
• Yanhuang University’s Kings emerged from seclusion and ordered an investigation as the lightning threatened the campus.
• The red thunderbolts battered the shield until its energy began to dwindle.
• Xia Ping questioned the system, which explained that the shield had intensified the tribulation and warned that eighty-one more thunderbolts would strike at once.

Xia Ping survived the final eighty-one bolts of heavenly lightning, which tempered his body and advanced him to the Second Heaven of the Martial Master Realm. After discovering he could hide his strength by storing his true essence in a Hell Golden Crow Cell, he found himself surrounded by more than a dozen king-level experts.

• Eighty-one bolts of red lightning shattered Yanhuang University's defenses and struck Xia Ping in his villa.
• Xia Ping used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art to withstand and absorb the lightning, which strengthened his body and awakened a Hell Golden Crow Cell.
• The lightning opened Xia Ping's thirteenth meridian and advanced him to the Second Heaven of the Martial Master Realm.
• After the heavenly punishment ended, Xia Ping discovered that he could store his true essence in the awakened cell and conceal his aura.
• More than a dozen king-level experts flew to Xia Ping's villa and surrounded him.

Xia Ping denied causing the lightning that struck him and challenged Yanhuang University's protector elders for suspecting him and trying to examine his body. The elders were left speechless when he demanded compensation for the accusations and distress.

• Yanhuang University's protector elders questioned Xia Ping about the lightning phenomenon, and he denied causing it.
• The elders secretly debated whether Xia Ping had provoked a heavenly tribulation and decided to examine him under the pretext of checking for injuries.
• Xia Ping recognized their intention and accused them of suspecting him without evidence.
• A green-robed elder suggested Xia Ping might have angered the heavens by cultivating a demonic technique, and Xia Ping denied the charge.
• Xia Ping agreed to an examination only if the elders compensated him should they find nothing, then argued that their accusations had damaged his reputation and caused him distress.
• The elders were stunned and could not easily dismiss Xia Ping's demand.

The Law Enforcement Elders examined Xia Ping and confirmed he had not cultivated an Evil Demon technique or caused the Heaven's punishment. They recognized his exceptional talent and solid foundation, and the black-robed elder handed him a Primordial Marrow Cleansing Pill as compensation.

• Xia Ping demanded that the Law Enforcement Elders examine him and honor their promise of compensation.
• The elders probed Xia Ping's body and were astonished by his broad meridians, abundant true essence, and solid martial foundation.
• Xia Ping sensed a mysterious energy in the elders' power and suspected it revealed the secret behind King-level strength.
• The elders concluded Xia Ping had no connection to the Heaven's punishment and that the thunder was likely a natural phenomenon.
• The black-robed elder admitted Xia Ping was innocent and gave him a Primordial Marrow Cleansing Pill.

After the guardian elders confirmed Xia Ping was uninvolved in the incident, the black-clad elder gave him a Primordial Marrow Cleansing Pill as compensation. Xia Ping learned that the Nie Family had placed a huge bounty on Wu Wudi, leaving him determined to grow stronger before his identity was exposed.

• The black-clad elder gave Xia Ping a Primordial Marrow Cleansing Pill, and Xia Ping accepted it while also asking for compensation for the damaged villa.
• The guardian elders left, and Xia Ping examined the pill and realized the King-realm expert had failed to detect his concealed true essence.
• Xia Ping asked the system about his Hate Points and learned he had accumulated 6.95 million, largely from provoking a King-level expert and others.
• Xia Ping discovered the Nie Family had publicly offered a massive bounty for Wu Wudi and worried that an expert might uncover his identity.
• Xia Ping resolved to raise his cultivation to the Grandmaster Realm or King Realm so he could withstand the Nie Family if his identity was revealed.

After the Primordial Marrow Cleansing Pill strengthened Xia Ping and helped him open two meridians, he went to Yanhuang University's Academic Affairs Office to pursue Elite Student status. He arrived to find veteran students resentful of his rapid progress and privately cursing him over the lightning strike at his villa.

• Xia Ping discovered that the Primordial Marrow Cleansing Pill had doubled his physical strength and energy absorption, improved his martial talent, and helped him open his fourteenth and fifteenth meridians.
• Xia Ping decided to accept the Elite Student promotion mission, hoping the title and its privileges would protect him from the Nie Family and improve his standing.
• Xia Ping arrived at the Academic Affairs Office, where veteran students including Mu Haoran and Ju Zijian recognized him and learned he had come for the Elite Student evaluation.
• The veteran students complained that Xia Ping had reached the Martial Master Realm unusually quickly and resented the possibility that he would surpass them.
• Ju Zijian and the other veterans privately blamed Xia Ping for the lightning damage at Yanhuang University and wished he would be struck down, but they feared confronting him openly.

Xia Ping sought promotion to Elite Student at Yanhuang University, and Teacher Yan let him choose from a list of missions while the other students accused them of corruption. Xia Ping chose the dangerous mission to hunt the Wind-Chasing Thieves, determined to improve through real battles.

• Xia Ping asked Teacher Yan to promote him to Elite Student, and Teacher Yan explained that he had to complete a mission first.
• Teacher Yan let Xia Ping choose any mission and recommended several easy options, angering older students who saw the special treatment as corruption.
• Xia Ping selected the mission to kill the Wind-Chasing Thieves despite Teacher Yan warning that their Martial Master leader and subordinates made them dangerous.
• Xia Ping explained that he wanted life-or-death fights to refine his cultivation, and Teacher Yan approved of his courage.

Xia Ping traveled to West Desolate City to hunt down the notorious Wind-Chasing Thieves and sought help from a local guide. He asked Hu San whether he knew the thieves’ whereabouts.

• Xia Ping reviewed intelligence about the Wind-Chasing Thieves and concluded he would need West Desolate City’s local power brokers to find them.
• Xia Ping arrived in West Desolate City aboard his God of Light, drawing greedy attention from the locals.
• Hu San approached Xia Ping and offered his knowledge of the city.
• Xia Ping asked Hu San if he knew where the Wind-Chasing Thieves were.

Xia Ping sought the Wind-Chasing Thieves so he could complete his school mission and wipe out the bandits, dismissing warnings about their danger. Hu San directed him to the Lawless Gang for information, and Xia Ping paid Hu San to lead him there.

• Xia Ping told Hu San and the bystanders that he planned to kill the Wind-Chasing Thieves and clear his school mission.
• Hu San warned Xia Ping that the notorious bandits had survived police crackdowns, but Xia Ping ignored him and threatened him.
• Hu San recommended the Lawless Gang as a source of information about the thieves’ hideout and warned that they charged high fees.
• Xia Ping boasted that he had plenty of money and tossed Hu San one hundred thousand Federal Coins.
• Hu San pocketed the cash and agreed to take Xia Ping to the Lawless Gang, privately expecting him to get himself killed.

Xia Ping visited the Lawless Gang's headquarters in West Desolate City to buy information about the Wind-Chasing Thieves' hideout. He revealed that he planned to use the heavily armed God of Light to destroy them once he learned their location.

• Xia Ping and Hu San reached the Lawless Gang's headquarters, where guards tried to stop them.
• Xia Ping threw a hundred thousand Federal Coins at the guards, and a middle-aged Lawless Gang supervisor welcomed him inside.
• Xia Ping asked the supervisor for the location of the Wind-Chasing Thieves' lair and explained that he had accepted a school mission to kill them.
• The supervisor warned Xia Ping that the Wind-Chasing Thieves had evaded the Federation's police for years.
• Xia Ping said he would bombard the thieves with the God of Light's weapons, leaving the Lawless Gang members stunned.

Xia Ping paid the Lawless Gang to find the Wind-Chasing Thieves, dismissing the cost and demanding results within a day. After he left, the gang’s members worried that exposing the thieves would destroy their profitable partnership and that Xia Ping’s wealth and private spacecraft made him too dangerous to refuse.

• Xia Ping told the black-clad, middle-aged man that money was no obstacle and demanded information on the Wind-Chasing Thieves within a day.
• The black-clad, middle-aged man agreed to investigate for a billion Federal Coins, and Xia Ping gave him the Starlight Hotel as his contact location.
• A subordinate reported that Xia Ping owned the heavily armed private spacecraft God of Light, which was worth tens of billions of Federal Coins.
• A subordinate revealed that the Lawless Gang secretly sold the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ stolen goods and earned more than half its income from them.
• The Lawless Gang members feared that refusing Xia Ping or hiding the thieves’ stronghold could lead another gang member to betray them for his bounty.
• The black-clad, middle-aged man ordered everyone to keep quiet and left to speak with the gang leader.

Salida introduced Kou Gao, the boss of the Wind-Chasing Thieves, and discussed a five-billion-Federal-Coin deal involving stolen goods. After Chen reported that Xia Ping was targeting the thieves, Kou Gao and Salida agreed to eliminate him before he could find their hideout.

• Liu entered the lounge and found Salida meeting with Kou Gao, the boss of the Wind-Chasing Thieves.
• Salida told Chen to establish sales channels for Kou Gao's stolen pills and spirit medicines in West Desolate City.
• Chen reported that Xia Ping had arrived and was threatening to wipe out the Wind-Chasing Thieves.
• Kou Gao smashed the table in anger and accused Salida of possibly betraying him to Xia Ping.
• Salida assured Kou Gao that the Lawless Gang would protect their interests, and Kou Gao said he would gather his men to kill Xia Ping.

Xia Ping let the Wind-Chasing Thieves drug and capture him so he could discover their hideout. They brought him to their hidden stronghold inside a remote mountain, where their leader Kou Gao had him awakened.

• Xia Ping sensed the Wind-Chasing Thieves outside his hotel suite and realized his plan to draw them out had worked.
• The thieves pumped knockout gas into Xia Ping's room, but his Pure Yang Indestructible Art burned it away, and he pretended to pass out.
• The thieves carried Xia Ping out of the Starlight Hotel and drove him more than a thousand kilometers to their concealed mountain stronghold.
• Kou Gao ordered his men to wake Xia Ping, and Xia Ping opened his eyes while bound in chains.

Xia Ping revealed that he had let the Wind-Chasing Thieves capture him so he could reach their hideout and destroy them. After killing Baldy with one punch, he faced the remaining bandits as the hall began to shake.

• Kou Gao admitted that the Lawless Gang had betrayed Xia Ping because it partnered with the Wind-Chasing Thieves.
• Baldy attacked Xia Ping with a Wolf Fang Club, but Xia Ping unleashed his power, melted his chains, and killed Baldy with one punch.
• Xia Ping revealed he had pretended to be helpless so the Wind-Chasing Thieves would take him to their hideout.
• The Wind-Chasing Thieves recognized Xia Ping as a powerful opponent but urged each other to attack him together.
• Xia Ping vowed to kill every Wind-Chasing Thief and stomped the ground, shaking the hall like an earthquake.

Xia Ping used his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art and Hell Golden Crow flames to overwhelm the Wind-Chasing Thieves. As the surviving thieves panicked, his second Hell Golden Crow Cell awakened, breaking through two more meridians and greatly increasing his power.

• The Wind-Chasing Thieves attacked Xia Ping with a coordinated barrage of wind blades, but his shield blocked them and sent them flying back, killing and injuring many.
• Xia Ping struck back with flaming attacks, burning more than a dozen thieves to ash.
• Xia Ping awakened his second Hell Golden Crow Cell, and the resulting life-origin energy broke through his fourteenth and fifteenth meridians.
• The surviving Wind-Chasing Thieves recognized Xia Ping as a terrifying threat and regretted bringing him to their hideout.

Xia Ping defeated Kou Gao with a single palm and rejected the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ pleas for mercy, killing one thief without hearing his story. He declared that his mission was to kill the bandits, and the survivors realized they could not reason with him.

• Kou Gao attacked Xia Ping with the Ghost Wind Blade Technique, but Xia Ping shattered his attack and slammed him into a cliff with the Immovable Tathagata Palm.
• The terrified Wind-Chasing Thieves watched their leader suffer severe injuries and lose most of his fighting strength.
• A bald thief begged Xia Ping for mercy and explained how injustice had driven him to become an outlaw, but Xia Ping killed him before he could finish.
• A thief condemned Xia Ping for killing the bald man, while Xia Ping said the bandits’ grievances did not matter because he had accepted a mission to kill them.
• The remaining Wind-Chasing Thieves realized that Xia Ping would not be swayed by their pleas or excuses.

Xia Ping survived Kou Gao’s cave-in trap and pursued the fleeing Wind-Chasing Thieves through an underground passage. He killed Kou Gao and the remaining thieves, then sensed that their treasure might be hidden at the passage’s end.

• Xia Ping burned more than a dozen Wind-Chasing Thieves to ashes as Kou Gao activated the cave’s self-destruct mechanism.
• Kou Gao and some of his men escaped through an opening while falling boulders crushed the thieves left behind; Xia Ping shattered the rocks and followed them.
• Xia Ping caught up with the fleeing thieves and killed them with the Rending Bear Hand, leaving Kou Gao badly wounded.
• Kou Gao begged for his life and offered his treasure, but Xia Ping killed him before he could use the remote control in his hand.
• Xia Ping detected an unusual scent and suspected that the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ treasure lay at the end of the tunnel.

Xia Ping opened the Wind-Chasing Thieves' treasury and discovered a vast hoard of wealth, rare pills, weapons, and martial arts manuals. He also found and refined the cursed Spear of Hell, leaving it under his control despite its corrupting power.

• Xia Ping used Kou Gao's corpse to pass the treasury door's retinal and fingerprint scans and opened the chamber.
• Xia Ping surveyed the thieves' enormous treasure hoard and found valuable Wood Spirit Pills and thirteen Snow Lotus Pills.
• Xia Ping spotted a sealed black box among the weapons, broke it open, and revealed the Spear of Hell.
• The spear attacked Xia Ping with corrupting energy and an illusion, but his Hell Golden Crow Cells shattered its assault.
• Xia Ping refined the Spear of Hell with his true essence and mental power, becoming its master and resisting its dark influence.

Xia Ping tested the Spear of Hell and expanded his Space Ring with Hate Points, discovering it could hold living things and move under his control. After taking every treasure from the vault, he prepared to return to West Desolate City and confront the person who had betrayed his whereabouts.

• Xia Ping infused the Spear of Hell with true essence, tested its power, and found that he could summon it from within a kilometer.
• Xia Ping spent two million Hate Points to expand his Space Ring by two thousand cubic meters.
• Xia Ping entered the Space Ring and discovered it could sustain living things and be moved with his spiritual power.
• Xia Ping transferred every treasure in the vault into the Space Ring, leaving nothing behind.
• Xia Ping set out for West Desolate City, determined to deal with the person who had betrayed his whereabouts.