Recaps

Xia Ping returned to the Lawless Gang’s headquarters after surviving the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ kidnapping and demanded an explanation for the gang’s offense. When the guards tried to block him, he killed their captain at the entrance, leaving the Lawless Gang and the watching crowd in shock.

• The Lawless Gang’s guards discussed Xia Ping’s visit the previous day, while their captain insisted he would not return and ordered them to keep quiet.
• The guards spotted Xia Ping approaching, and the captain falsely claimed the gang’s supervisor was away on business.
• Xia Ping demanded that the Lawless Gang’s person in charge come out and answer for offending him.
• When the captain threatened Xia Ping and refused to let him enter, Xia Ping pierced his chest with a sword of true essence.
• Xia Ping destroyed the captain’s body with his qi, and the horrified onlookers predicted that the Lawless Gang would retaliate.

Xia Ping confronted the Lawless Gang over its betrayal, accusing it of selling his information to the Wind-Chasing Thieves. When its members demanded proof and threatened to capture him, he declared that he would destroy the gang and attacked them.

• A Lawless Gang guard saw Xia Ping kill the captain and called for help, drawing several experts who blocked Xia Ping's path.
• Xia Ping told the crowd that the Lawless Gang had leaked his information to the Wind-Chasing Thieves after he sought their services.
• A Lawless Gang expert demanded witnesses and evidence, while another accused Xia Ping of being a rival gang's agent.
• Xia Ping declared his intention to wipe out the Lawless Gang and killed one of its experts with a fiery punch.
• Three or four Lawless Gang elites attacked Xia Ping, and he killed them with the sword auras of White Crane Slash.

Xia Ping attacked the Lawless Gang headquarters to avenge its betrayal, while Salida and the gang elders denied his accusations and branded him a demon spy. Xia Ping struck back with the Spear of Hell, killing several more elites and gravely injuring Salida.

• Xia Ping killed several Lawless Gang experts at the headquarters entrance and vowed to wipe out the gang.
• Salida and the Lawless Gang elites surrounded Xia Ping, and Salida raged over the fallen members.
• Xia Ping accused the gang of colluding with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and selling information about him, while the black-clothed man denied it.
• The Lawless Gang elders and Salida called Xia Ping a demon spy and urged the bystanders to help kill him.
• Xia Ping drew the Spear of Hell and killed four or five Martial Master Realm experts, including the black-clothed man, while gravely injuring Salida.

Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to defeat Salida and the Lawless Gang, but Sha Jie, Salida’s Grandmaster Realm older brother and West Desolate City’s deputy city lord, arrived and threatened him. Xia Ping rejected Sha Jie’s two choices and summoned his spacecraft, God of Light.

• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to overwhelm the Lawless Gang and prepared to kill Salida.
• Sha Jie arrived and revealed himself as Salida’s older brother and a Grandmaster Realm expert.
• Salida denied colluding with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and accused Xia Ping of being a demon traitor.
• Sha Jie accused Xia Ping of harming innocents and demanded that he cripple himself or die.
• Xia Ping chose to kill Sha Jie and summoned his personal spacecraft, God of Light.

Xia Ping used the God of Light’s Laser Cannon to cripple Sha Jie and then killed him, leaving the Lawless Gang without its powerful backer. He confronted Salida and challenged him to call for more help.

• Xia Ping revealed the God of Light hovering above the Lawless Gang’s headquarters and fired its Laser Cannon at Sha Jie.
• The blast shattered Sha Jie’s Body-Protecting Qi and left him alive but missing half his body.
• Xia Ping told Sha Jie that his position as deputy city lord did not put him above the law, then crushed his head and killed him.
• The bystanders and Lawless Gang members feared Xia Ping, while they lamented Sha Jie’s death and recognized that the gang had lost its backer.
• Xia Ping addressed Salida and dared the Lawless Gang leader to call for help and find someone who could save him.

Xia Ping killed Salida after the Lawless Gang leader admitted his hatred and despair. The gang members exposed their partnership with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and led Xia Ping to Salida’s vault, which he broke open before entering alone.

• Salida raged at Xia Ping for killing his big brother, Sha Jie, and Xia Ping killed him with a spear thrust.
• The Lawless Gang members begged for mercy and revealed that Salida’s gang had helped the Wind-Chasing Thieves fence stolen goods and sold Xia Ping’s information.
• A Lawless Gang elder told Xia Ping that the transaction ledgers and Salida’s fortune were in the treasury beneath Salida’s office.
• Xia Ping ordered the elders to lead him to the treasury and tore through its metal door with the Hell Spear.
• Xia Ping warned the Lawless Gang members to stay outside, then entered the vault alone.

Xia Ping looted the Lawless Gang’s treasury and found himself surrounded by West Desolate City’s police after killing the gang and deputy city lord Sha Jie. He contacted Zhao Yang, who promised to use Yanhuang University’s connections to protect him, just as armed officers and hostile Lawless Gang elders closed in.

• Xia Ping packed the Lawless Gang’s treasures into his Space Ring and left the treasury.
• Xia Ping sensed that the Lawless Gang elders had fled and that police and warships had surrounded the headquarters.
• Xia Ping contacted Zhao Yang and explained that he had wiped out the Lawless Gang and killed deputy city lord Sha Jie.
• Zhao Yang told Xia Ping to rely on the evidence of the gang’s dealings with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and promised to contact West Desolate City lord Guo Donghai.
• Armed police officers and several Grandmaster Realm experts surrounded Xia Ping as Lawless Gang elders arrived behind them.

Xia Ping faced arrest after killing Vice City Lord Sha Jie and the Lawless Gang leader, but City Lord Guo Donghai arrived and stopped Police Chief Yan Dongsheng from attacking him. Guo Donghai insisted Xia Ping be allowed to explain himself, leaving the confrontation poised for his account.

• Lawless Gang elders and Police Chief Yan Dongsheng accused Xia Ping of murder and demanded that he surrender, but Xia Ping asked to speak with the City Lord.
• Guo Donghai crashed through the building’s ceiling and asked Xia Ping why he had killed Sha Jie and the others.
• Yan Dongsheng urged Guo Donghai to arrest and execute Xia Ping, then attacked him with a palm strike.
• Guo Donghai blocked Yan Dongsheng’s strike and accused him of possibly using his authority to settle a personal score.
• Guo Donghai promised Xia Ping a fair hearing, and Xia Ping agreed to explain himself.

Xia Ping defended his attack on the Lawless Gang as part of his mission to protect West Desolate City, while City Lord Guo Donghai supported his actions. The chapter ended with Xia Ping presenting account books that implicated police chief Yan Dongsheng in corruption and ties to the gang.

• Xia Ping claimed he had infiltrated and destroyed the Wind-Chasing Thieves, then discovered evidence of their decade-long cooperation with the Lawless Gang.
• Xia Ping said he had attacked the Lawless Gang to stop its leaders from escaping and harming people elsewhere.
• Guo Donghai declared that Xia Ping had acted under an elite mission with police authority and could lawfully kill criminals.
• Yan Dongsheng challenged Xia Ping, citing his failure to involve the police and his killing of Deputy City Lord Sha Jie.
• Xia Ping accused Yan Dongsheng of taking bribes from the Lawless Gang and handed account books from its vault to Guo Donghai.
• Guo Donghai reviewed the account books and asked Yan Dongsheng to answer for his alleged collusion with the Lawless Gang.

Xia Ping exposed evidence of Yan Dongsheng’s crimes, prompting Guo Donghai to move against the police chief. Yan Dongsheng threatened to kill Guo, but Guo revealed his overwhelming strength and killed him.

• Yan Dongsheng called Xia Ping’s evidence a forgery, while Guo Donghai said the Federal Government would investigate it.
• Yan Dongsheng demanded that Guo surrender the ledger and threatened to kill him and frame his death as a heroic sacrifice.
• Guo Donghai unleashed his aura, revealing that he had reached the ninth level of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Guo Donghai struck Yan Dongsheng with a powerful palm, smashing him through the building and killing him on the ground floor.

Guo Donghai killed Yan Dongsheng and secured the crowd’s submission, then cleared Xia Ping of all charges and awarded him the title of City Hero. When police searched the Lawless Gang’s vault, they found it empty, and Xia Ping denied taking anything.

• Guo Donghai declared Yan Dongsheng guilty of attempting to assassinate the city lord, and the crowd accepted the verdict in fear.
• Xia Ping recognized the power of the Grandmaster Realm as Guo Donghai asserted control over West Desolate City.
• Guo Donghai praised Xia Ping for destroying the Wind-Chasing Thieves and exposing Yan Dongsheng and Sha Jie, then proposed clearing him and granting him the City Hero award.
• Xia Ping modestly claimed his actions were his duty but said he would reluctantly accept an award for his achievements.
• Police searched the Lawless Gang’s vault and found it empty, while Xia Ping denied taking its treasure and blamed Salida for possibly moving it.
• Guo Donghai ordered the police to investigate and find the Lawless Gang’s hidden vault.

Xia Ping cultivated in seclusion after defeating the Wind-Chasing Thieves and the Lawless Gang, consuming thirteen Snow Lotus Pills and advancing to the third heaven of the Martial Master Realm. After three days, he checked his new strength and Hate Points before City Lord Guo Donghai contacted him.

• Xia Ping swallowed all thirteen Snow Lotus Pills and used their energy to cultivate in the manor’s secluded chamber.
• Xia Ping opened twenty-four meridians and reached the peak of the second heaven of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xia Ping’s two true-essence vortexes resonated, helping him open a twenty-fifth meridian and reach the third heaven of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xia Ping tested his improved strength and punched through a titanium-alloy wall from a hundred meters away.
• Xia Ping discovered that three days had passed and learned from the system that he had accumulated 6.2 million Hate Points.
• City Lord Guo Donghai contacted Xia Ping through his Smart Watch.

After reaching the third level of the Martial Master Realm, Xia Ping met with Guo Donghai, who asked him to investigate strange changes at the Demon Spirit Mine. Xia Ping accepted in exchange for a Blood Flood Dragon Pill and prepared to enter the dangerous forbidden zone.

• Guo Donghai noticed that Xia Ping had grown stronger during his three days of seclusion and summoned him to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Guo Donghai explained that an ancient battle had made the Demon Spirit Mine a forbidden zone filled with spatial folds, resentment, and demons.
• Guo Donghai told Xia Ping that the mine's demons and demonic energy had vanished three months earlier, while disturbing roars and powerful demon activity had been reported there.
• Guo Donghai asked Xia Ping to investigate the mine, explaining that Grandmasters could be corrupted there and that Xia Ping was the strongest suitable Martial Master available.
• Xia Ping accepted the mission after Guo Donghai offered him a Blood Flood Dragon Pill as a reward.

Xia Ping crossed the Western Desolation using the Kunpeng Step and broke through his twenty-sixth meridian during his extreme training. He reached the Demon Spirit Mine, sensed the danger of its formation, and was confronted by members of the demon race.

• Xia Ping raced across the desert with the Kunpeng Step, reflecting on the power of the Martial Master, Grandmaster, and King realms.
• As he pushed his body through hours of running, Xia Ping drew in spiritual energy and opened his twenty-sixth meridian.
• Xia Ping reached the vast, abandoned Demon Spirit Mine and sensed its sinister demonic aura and a formation that suppressed anyone above the Martial Master Realm.
• Dozens of monsters with human torsos and animal heads appeared at the mine’s edge and ordered Xia Ping to stop.

Xia Ping confronted the demons guarding the Demon Spirit Mine and tried to buy information from them, but they refused and threatened to make him a servant or kill him. He attacked with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and burned several demons to ash.

• The tiger demon and the other Martial Master demons demanded to know why Xia Ping had entered the Demon Spirit Mine.
• Xia Ping said the West Desolate City Lord had sent him to investigate unusual activity and offered a reward for information.
• Xia Ping offered the demons Wood Spirit Pills and a chance to move to a human city, but they rejected his offer and invoked Lord Poison Scorpion’s order to kill suspicious intruders.
• The tiger demon gave Xia Ping the choice of becoming his servant or dying.
• Xia Ping unleashed the Pure Yang Indestructible Art, engulfing the demons in dark-red flames that burned five or six of them to ash.

Xia Ping defeated the Tiger Demon with a single palm and killed him with a punch, demonstrating how far his strength surpassed the demons'. The remaining demons were left stunned and afraid.

• The demons feared Xia Ping after he killed more than a dozen of them with a single fire technique.
• The Tiger Demon transformed and challenged Xia Ping with the Tiger Demon Clan’s Tiger Roar Fist.
• Xia Ping blocked the Tiger Demon’s punch with his Immovable Tathagata Palm and sent him flying, badly injured.
• Xia Ping rebuked the Tiger Demon for claiming humans merely copied demon martial arts.
• The Tiger Demon roared in anger, and Xia Ping killed him with a punch before the other demons could intervene.

After Xia Ping killed the Tiger Demon, he wiped out the attacking demons with the third form of the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art and absorbed their Demon Cores. When powerful demons arrived to investigate, Xia Ping fled deeper into the Demon Spirit Mine, and they vowed to hunt him down.

• The demons attacked Xia Ping to avenge the Tiger Demon, and Xia Ping unleashed Flower Rain Across the Sky, burning them all to ashes.
• Xia Ping collected several dozen Demon Cores, purified their demonic energy with the Sun Furnace, and gained a large amount of true essence.
• Xia Ping sensed powerful demons approaching and used the Kunpeng Step to flee deeper into the Demon Spirit Mine.
• More than a dozen demons found the ashes, suspected Xia Ping was a spy from West Desolate City, and set out to hunt him.

Xia Ping explored the dangerous Demon Spirit Mine and concealed his aura as he made his way to its center. There, he discovered monsters assembling the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array under Scorpion Thirteen’s orders, while they searched for him.

• Xia Ping entered the Demon Spirit Mine, saw its wormholes and a mountain steeped in black blood, and concealed his aura within his Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Xia Ping traveled cautiously through the mine for a day and a night, avoiding dangerous mountains and their powerful monsters.
• Xia Ping reached the central area and found hundreds of monsters gathered around carved stone totems arranged in a formation.
• Several ninth-level Martial Master monsters arrived and complained that they could not find Xia Ping, whom they feared might disrupt the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array.
• Xia Ping hid beneath a black rock, heard the monsters mention Young Master Scorpion Thirteen, and realized he was nearing the truth.

Xia Ping overheard Scorpion Thirteen and his demons preparing to activate the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array so Scorpion Thirteen could absorb ancient demonic power and strengthen himself. The chapter left the demons ready to unleash the array despite knowing it would destroy the mine’s defenses and devastate nearby human cities.

• Scorpion Thirteen arrived and learned that the demons had completed the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array, which they planned to activate at midnight.
• Xia Ping recognized Scorpion Thirteen as the son of Black Scorpion King and learned that the array was intended to raise him to the peak of the Demon Soldier Realm.
• A demon warned that the array’s demonic and baleful energy could overwhelm Scorpion Thirteen’s soul, but Scorpion Thirteen revealed that he had borrowed the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl from his father.
• Scorpion Thirteen’s followers praised his favor with Black Scorpion King and pledged loyalty to him.
• A demon warned that activating the array would destroy the mine’s protective formation and release the demons sealed inside, threatening nearby human cities.
• Scorpion Thirteen dismissed the danger to humans, and the demons agreed that tens of millions could die as a consequence of his ambitions.

Xia Ping learned how to break the demons’ Heavenly Demon Infusion Array and planned to destroy it before it could endanger West Desolate City. As the demons began activating the array at midnight, he prepared to strike its key node.

• Scorpion Thirteen dismissed the threat Xia Ping posed and ordered the demons to finish the array and activate it that night.
• Xia Ping decided to kill Scorpion Thirteen and his demons, both to complete his mission and to earn Hate Points by provoking the Black Scorpion King.
• Xia Ping spent two million Hate Points to learn how the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array worked and discovered that destroying a key node at midnight would collapse it.
• The system warned Xia Ping that the array’s gathered energy would erupt with force comparable to a nuclear bomb, and Xia Ping planned to hide in his Space Ring.
• At midnight, the demons gathered at the Demon Spirit Mine’s center and began activating the completed array as Xia Ping opened his eyes behind a nearby rock.

Scorpion Thirteen activated the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array to refine his Demon King bloodline when Xia Ping emerged and attacked its core. The array began to collapse, and Xia Ping escaped into his Space Ring as destructive energy gathered.

• Scorpion Thirteen activated the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array, drawing energy from the Demon Spirit Mine as the demons celebrated his expected rise.
• Xia Ping burst from a boulder and surprised the demons while the array was at its most vulnerable.
• Scorpion Thirteen ordered the demons to kill Xia Ping before he could damage the array.
• Xia Ping hurled a stone through several demons and destroyed the array’s core scorpion-shaped totem.
• As the gathered energy threatened to explode, Xia Ping dove into his Space Ring and left it buried in the dirt.

Xia Ping survived the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array’s catastrophic explosion by hiding in his Space Ring, then emerged to find Scorpion Thirteen and a handful of badly wounded monsters alive. He attacked them immediately, killing three of Scorpion Thirteen’s subordinates as the fight began.

• Xia Ping hid inside his Space Ring as the array collapsed and unleashed an explosion that destroyed the surrounding area and killed most of the monsters.
• After the blast subsided, Xia Ping emerged and saw that the nearby mountains had been flattened and the ground was covered in lava.
• Scorpion Thirteen and more than a dozen wounded subordinates survived the explosion, and Scorpion Thirteen attacked Xia Ping with a venomous gust of black wind.
• Xia Ping dodged Scorpion Thirteen’s attack, drew the Spear of Hell, and charged at the wounded monsters.
• Xia Ping’s spear pierced three monsters and then burst their bodies apart, killing them.

Xia Ping fought Scorpion Thirteen, whose Black Scorpion Poison failed against Xia Ping’s flames. After Xia Ping severely wounded him, nearby demons intervened to protect the son of the Black Scorpion King, and the battle continued.

• Scorpion Thirteen attacked Xia Ping with his Black Scorpion Poison and a powerful punch.
• Xia Ping used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art to burn away the poison, then struck Scorpion Thirteen with Rending Bear Hand and smashed him into the ground.
• Xia Ping prepared to finish Scorpion Thirteen, but more than a dozen demons warned him of the consequences and rushed in to shield Scorpion Thirteen.
• The demons attacked Xia Ping, and their blows blasted the ground and shattered rocks around them.

Xia Ping used the Golden Light Mirror to destroy the monsters’ battle formation and kill them before they could escape. He realized the treasure’s power surpassed what he expected, but resolved to hide it from the Nie Family until he reached the King Realm.

• The injured monsters formed the Black Scorpion Battle Formation and attacked Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping activated the Golden Light Mirror, piercing and burning away the formation with a golden beam.
• The formation shattered, and the monsters were badly injured by the backlash; Scorpion Thirteen and the others recognized Xia Ping had another treasure and considered fleeing.
• Xia Ping fired golden beams at the monsters, killing them all to prevent them from revealing that he possessed the mirror.
• Xia Ping assessed the mirror’s power and resolved to reach the King Realm so he could use it without fearing the Nie Family’s revenge.

Scorpion Thirteen summoned a Grandmaster-level Energy Puppet with a Demon King Talisman and tried to kill Xia Ping, but Xia Ping countered by pulling out micro nuclear bombs. The chapter ended with Scorpion Thirteen fleeing and pleading with Xia Ping not to detonate them.

• Scorpion Thirteen used its Demon King Talisman to summon a powerful black Scorpion Demon Energy Puppet.
• Scorpion Thirteen ordered the puppet to kill Xia Ping and tried to claim the Golden Light Mirror and Spear of Hell.
• Xia Ping revealed several micro nuclear bombs that Guo Donghai had given him for emergencies.
• Scorpion Thirteen panicked and begged Xia Ping not to detonate the bombs, warning that they would both die in the blast.