Recaps

Xia Ping survived Scorpion Thirteen’s attacks and killed him after the demon escaped the blast of three miniature nuclear bombs. Scorpion Thirteen died still raging about his lost ambitions and threatening revenge.

• Xia Ping threw three miniature nuclear bombs at Scorpion Thirteen, whose Energy Puppet shielded him from most of the blast but was destroyed along with the Demon King Talisman.
• Xia Ping emerged from the Space Ring and pursued Scorpion Thirteen, who threatened him with the Black Scorpion King’s vengeance.
• Scorpion Thirteen released a cloud of deadly poison and fled, but Xia Ping burned away the poison with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art.
• Xia Ping hurled the Hell Spear through Scorpion Thirteen’s chest, piercing his heart and killing him.

Xia Ping took the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl and refined Demon Spirit Stones to strengthen his cultivation. After reaching a new stage of progress, he decided to publicize Scorpion Thirteen and the other monsters’ deaths online to gain more Hate Points.

• Xia Ping confirmed Scorpion Thirteen was dead and took the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl, whose golden light protected and nourished him.
• Xia Ping found dozens of Demon Spirit Stones in a pit and used his Sun Furnace to refine them into energy he could absorb.
• Xia Ping absorbed the stones’ energy overnight, opened six meridians, and strengthened his true essence and mental power.
• Xia Ping considered the monster corpses and decided to post news of the killings online so more people would learn of his achievements.

After emerging from the Demon Spirit Mine, Xia Ping posted about killing more than a dozen monsters, and his supporters praised him while his rivals accused him of lying. Clear photos proved his account, but Mu Haoran dismissed the monsters as weak cannon fodder.

• Xia Ping reached the surface, connected to the internet, and posted that he had killed several monsters in the Demon Spirit Mine.
• Feng Hetang and the Pingtian Sect members praised Xia Ping on the School Forum, and Xia Ping modestly boasted that he had killed more than a dozen Martial Master Realm monsters unharmed.
• Mu Haoran, Ju Zijian, and their allies called Xia Ping's story unbelievable and mocked him for supposedly inventing it to attract attention.
• Xia Ping uploaded clear photos of the dead monsters and himself beside them, giving Feng Hetang and the others proof to mock his critics.
• Mu Haoran conceded that the photos were real but claimed the monsters Xia Ping killed were weak cannon fodder.

Xia Ping defended his forum post by revealing that the demon he killed was Scorpion Thirteen, the Black Scorpion King's son, but students accused him of lying. After students investigated and found the demon in his picture matched Scorpion Thirteen, the university was left reeling at the possible death of a Demon King’s crown prince.

• Ju Zijian and other students mocked Xia Ping for bragging about killing weak demon grunts, so Xia Ping replied that the largest dead demon was Scorpion Thirteen, the Black Scorpion King's son.
• Mu Haoran and the other students accused Xia Ping of making up the claim, and Xia Ping told them to investigate for themselves.
• A student used family connections to confirm that the Black Scorpion King had a beloved son named Scorpion Thirteen, considered a possible successor.
• The student compared a picture of Scorpion Thirteen with the dead demon and said they looked exactly alike, though Mu Haoran and others still resisted admitting Xia Ping had killed him.
• Yanhuang University students realized Scorpion Thirteen might be dead and feared the news could spark a major conflict between humans and demons.

After news spread that Xia Ping had killed Scorpion Thirteen, people feared the Black Scorpion King's retaliation and called for Xia Ping to be handed over. Xia Ping used an online post to reveal Scorpion Thirteen's plot against the Demon Spirit Mine, turning public opinion in his favor as the story became major news.

• News that Xia Ping had killed Scorpion Thirteen spread across the Cloud Sky Realm, and people debated the risk of war with the demons.
• Xia Ping posted a rebuttal accusing those who wanted to surrender him of being demon spies and traitors.
• Xia Ping claimed Scorpion Thirteen and other monsters had planned to use a Heavenly Demon Infusion Array to break the Demon Spirit Mine's formations and endanger more than a dozen human cities.
• People who believed Xia Ping's account condemned Scorpion Thirteen and rejected the idea of handing Xia Ping over to the demons.
• Xia Ping joined the calls for resistance using an alternate account, and the story reached major media outlets and made him famous.

After Xia Ping killed Scorpion Thirteen, demons debated whether to avenge him and some began plotting to capture Xia Ping as a slave. The Black Scorpion King threatened to slaughter ten human cities unless humanity handed over Xia Ping, then sent a million-strong army toward a nearby city.

• Demons discussed Scorpion Thirteen’s death, with some dismissing him as a fool and others insisting his killing could not go unanswered.
• Several demons expressed interest in capturing Xia Ping and making him their slave.
• The enraged Black Scorpion King threatened humanity, demanding Xia Ping’s public submission and his clan’s extermination or he would destroy ten cities.
• Humans reacted furiously to the threat, while some called for the Black Scorpion King to be killed and others recognized how difficult that would be.
• The next day, the Black Scorpion King dispatched an army of a million toward a human city near his territory.

Black Scorpion King invaded Human Race territory to avenge his son, but the human kings defeated him and scattered his army. As Black Scorpion King sought protection from Ten Thousand Demon Mountain, both sides issued warnings that threatened to reignite the war.

• A human king in white confronted Black Scorpion King and refused to let him attack human cities over his son's death.
• Centipede King and Golden Snake King joined Black Scorpion King, prompting the human king to summon five human kings.
• The six human kings fought the three Demon Kings for a day and night, leaving the Demon Kings wounded and forcing them to flee as the demon army scattered.
• Human officials proposed destroying Black Scorpion King's kingdom, frightening him into appealing to Ten Thousand Demon Mountain for help.
• A figure from Ten Thousand Demon Mountain threatened war, and a Human Race figure warned that forces attacking humans would be eradicated.

The Human Race and Demon Race nearly went to war after Xia Ping killed Scorpion Thirteen, but the Ape Race brokered talks that ended in a secret peace treaty. Guo Donghai warned Xia Ping that the Black Scorpion King’s assassins might target him, and Xia Ping returned safely to Yanhuang University.

• The Demon Race threatened the Human Race, which announced a military exercise as tensions and border skirmishes intensified.
• The Ape Race leader proposed five principles for peaceful coexistence and helped the Human Race and Demon Race resume contact.
• The two sides signed a secret treaty, with the Black Scorpion King agreeing to compensate the Human Race's military for its losses.
• Xia Ping told Guo Donghai that killing Scorpion Thirteen had been necessary to save the people of West Desolate City, and Guo Donghai agreed.
• Xia Ping said he would return to Yanhuang University, and Guo Donghai advised him to avoid going out and improve his cultivation.
• Xia Ping traveled back to Yanhuang University aboard the God of Light and arrived safely.

Xia Ping returned safely to Yanhuang University despite the Demon Race’s threats, prompting widespread shock and discussion. Pingtian Sect members then taunted Ju Zijian and Mu Haoran for previously denying Xia Ping’s account, leaving them furious and humiliated.

• Students on Yanhuang University’s forum reported Xia Ping’s safe return and speculated about the protection he had from Demon Race assassins.
• Su Ji and other students reacted with disbelief that Xia Ping had survived the dangers surrounding his role in the conflict.
• Pingtian Sect members mocked students who had accused Xia Ping of lying about killing Scorpion Thirteen.
• Ju Zijian and Mu Haoran saw the taunts and became enraged as Pingtian Sect members continued to ridicule them.
• One of Ju Zijian’s companions collapsed while coughing up blood and was rushed to the hospital.

Xia Ping was warned that the Demon Race had placed a bounty on him, then received Elite Student status and its rewards from Yanhuang University. As he considered which King-level manual to choose, he became interested in the low-grade No-Beat Palm.

• Elder Du Ze warned Xia Ping to stay inside Yanhuang University because Demon Race assassins would target him if he left.
• After the elders departed, Zhao Yang made Xia Ping an Elite Student and offered him a villa, a hundred Energy Stones, and one King-level manual.
• Zhao Yang explained that Energy Stones contained refined vital energy and could greatly accelerate cultivation.
• Xia Ping browsed the university’s catalog and singled out the No-Beat Palm for its freeform style and formidable power.
• Zhao Yang advised Xia Ping against choosing the No-Beat Palm because it was only a low-grade King-level technique.

Xia Ping learned that the No-Beat Palm was a flawed, difficult technique created by the legendary King Zhuang Chunqiu, but the system could repair and advance it. He exchanged for the manual and used five million Hate Points to deduce it into a top-grade King-level martial art.

• Instructor Zhao Yang explained that the No-Beat Palm was incomplete and extremely difficult to cultivate, and warned Xia Ping that it might be a poor choice.
• The system detected the unrecorded No-Beat Palm and offered to correct its flaws and deduce it to the top-grade King level for five million Hate Points.
• Xia Ping decided to exchange for the technique, and Zhao Yang sent its manual to his Smart Watch.
• Xia Ping told the system to deduce the technique, spending five million Hate Points.
• The system revealed the perfected No-Beat Palm to Xia Ping, who learned that it had nine layers of force and gained a deeper understanding of martial arts.

Director Zhao Yang showed Xia Ping around Yanhuang University's elite district and explained its Training Tower. When Elite Students recognized Xia Ping, Xie Hao challenged him to a spar, and the chapter ended with the provocation unanswered.

• Director Zhao Yang brought Xia Ping into the elite district and warned him not to enter restricted laboratories without authorization.
• Director Zhao Yang pointed out the student residential area and described the Training Tower's training facilities.
• Xia Ping watched Elite Students demonstrate their martial skills on the Training Tower's first floor.
• Elite Students recognized Xia Ping as the man who killed Scorpion Thirteen and nearly provoked a war between the Human Race and the demon race.
• Xie Hao challenged Xia Ping to spar, and Director Zhao Yang objected that Xie Hao was an experienced sixth-level Martial Master.
• Xie Hao insisted the students wanted to test Xia Ping's combat strength and taunted him by suggesting he might not dare to fight.

Xia Ping agreed to Xie Hao’s wagered duel after Xie Hao and his friends tried to provoke him into betting a hundred Energy Stones. Xia Ping raised the wager to a thousand Energy Stones, leaving Xie Hao to decide whether he dared to accept.

• Xie Hao proposed a duel with both fighters’ cultivation suppressed to the Martial Master First Heaven Realm and offered to wager a hundred Energy Stones.
• Director Zhao Yang warned Xia Ping that Xie Hao was an experienced veteran who preyed on newcomers through wagered duels.
• Xie Hao and his friends taunted Xia Ping, implying he would look cowardly if he refused.
• Xia Ping accepted the duel but said a hundred Energy Stones was too little and proposed betting a thousand instead.
• Xie Hao lost his relaxed expression as Xia Ping began to leave, waiting to see whether Xie Hao would accept.

Xia Ping accepted Xie Hao’s challenge and wagered a thousand Energy Stones on their duel. After they entered the Combat Room and were restricted to the same cultivation level, Xie Hao attacked and mocked Xia Ping as he dodged.

• Xia Ping demanded a substantial wager, and Xie Hao agreed to bet a thousand Energy Stones against him.
• Xia Ping and Xie Hao signed a binding contract for the duel.
• Zhao Yang warned Xia Ping that Xie Hao’s experience and honed techniques made him the likely winner, but Xia Ping remained confident.
• Xia Ping and Xie Hao entered the Combat Room, where the arena restricted both of them to the First Heaven Realm of Martial Master.
• Xie Hao opened with a powerful sword strike, and Xia Ping evaded it with the Kunpeng Step.
• Xie Hao mocked Xia Ping and charged again, bringing his sword down in a slash.

Xia Ping fought Elite Student Xie Hao, easily resisting his perfected Yin-Yang Wind Blade Sword with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art. After deciding Xie Hao was too weak to challenge him, Xia Ping struck him with the No-Beat Palm and sent him flying.

• Xie Hao attacked Xia Ping with his perfected Yin-Yang Wind Blade Sword, sending dozens of wind blades at him.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to block the wind blades without injury, then knocked Xie Hao back with a punch.
• The Elite Students debated whether Xie Hao could wear down Xia Ping's defenses, while Xie Hao prepared to drain his true essence.
• Xia Ping said he was bored and struck Xie Hao from more than a hundred meters away with the No-Beat Palm, sending him flying.

Xia Ping used the No-Beat Palm to overwhelm Xie Hao in the Combat Room, deepening his understanding of the technique as he fought. Xie Hao surrendered, and Xia Ping won the duel, leaving Xie Hao injured, humiliated, and out a thousand Energy Stones.

• Xia Ping shocked Xie Hao with a palm strike that sent him sliding more than a hundred meters and injured him.
• Xia Ping repeatedly struck Xie Hao with the No-Beat Palm, bouncing him through the air while using him as a sparring partner.
• Xia Ping reflected on the technique's nine levels of force and realized he had only begun to comprehend the first.
• Xie Hao cried out that he surrendered, and the Combat Room declared Xia Ping the winner.
• Xia Ping asked why Xie Hao had surrendered, while Xie Hao lay badly injured and seethed over his humiliation and lost Energy Stones.

Xia Ping defeated Xie Hao in the Combat Room, driving him to surrender before his taunts made Xie Hao collapse unconscious. After the lobby learned Xia Ping had won with the No-Beat Palm, he mocked the Elite Students, provoking one of them to confront him.

• Xia Ping taunted the injured Xie Hao for surrendering, and Xie Hao spat blood and passed out from rage.
• Medical staff carried Xie Hao away for emergency treatment as the first-floor lobby watched the duel results.
• The mechanical voice announced Xia Ping’s victory, stunning the Elite Students who had expected Xie Hao to win.
• Director Zhao Yang recognized Xia Ping’s technique as the No-Beat Palm and was shocked that Xia Ping had mastered it so quickly.
• Xia Ping dismissed the Elite Students as weak and said he was disappointed, prompting a short-haired Elite Student to confront him.

Xia Ping provoked Xie Hao’s associates and the other Elite Students into accepting wager matches. He defeated seven or eight of them with No-Beat Palm, sending them to the hospital and winning a thousand Energy Stones.

• Xia Ping mocked the Elite Students for backing down after he challenged them to a duel.
• Several Elite Students, including Xie Hao’s associates, accepted Xia Ping’s wager match to protect their reputations.
• At the Combat Room, Xia Ping used No-Beat Palm to knock out one Elite Student with a single strike.
• Xia Ping defeated the remaining challengers in three minutes, injuring them and winning a thousand Energy Stones.
• Xia Ping left the Combat Room and called for more challengers to wager against him.

Xia Ping drove the Elite Students away by repeatedly challenging them to spar, then asked Instructor Zhao Yang about the Genius Tournament and the Heavenly Demon Battlefield. Zhao Yang explained that the tournament selected young Martial Master geniuses for the battlefield, leaving Xia Ping curious about what made it so important.

• Xia Ping challenged a muscle-bound Elite Student and a bald spear user, but both made excuses to avoid fighting him.
• Xia Ping continued inviting Elite Students to spar, and they fled the Training Tower with increasingly absurd excuses.
• Instructor Zhao Yang told Xia Ping to stop showing off and go home, then reassured him that the Energy Stones from his bets would arrive later.
• Zhao Yang said Xia Ping could stand out in the Genius Tournament if he reached the high-level Martial Master Realm and earn a place in the Heavenly Demon Battlefield.
• Zhao Yang explained that the tournament was open to Martial Masters under thirty across the Cloud Sky Realm and selected a thousand geniuses to compete against genius demons for treasures.
• Xia Ping asked Zhao Yang what the Heavenly Demon Battlefield was and why the geniuses went there.

Dean Zhao Yang explained the deadly Heavenly Demon Battlefield and its Demon Saint legacies, warning Xia Ping that the Genius Tournament was three months away and that he would need much more strength to qualify. Xia Ping moved into the Elite District and publicized his clash with senior students on the school forum to gain Hate Points.

• Zhao Yang told Xia Ping that the Heavenly Demon Battlefield was an ancient pocket dimension filled with dangers and treasures, and that humans could benefit from Demon Saint legacies.
• Zhao Yang explained that the Genius Tournament would begin in three months and advised Xia Ping to spend three years reaching peak Martial Master Realm before competing.
• Xia Ping decided he would not wait three years and hoped to strengthen his qi art enough to qualify for the upcoming tournament.
• Xia Ping arrived at his Elite District villa and admired its spacious facilities, strong security, and rich spiritual energy.
• Xia Ping posted on the School Forum about senior Elite Students trying to intimidate and extort him, drawing immediate speculation from other students.

After Xia Ping defeated several Elite Students in a betting match, news of their injuries and his winnings spread across Yanhuang University, boosting his reputation. Xie Hao and his companions vowed revenge in the hospital, just as a crowd arrived at their room.

• Students first believed Elite District students had beaten Xia Ping, but a post revealed that he had defeated them and won a fortune.
• Students viewed photos of the injured Elite Students and spread the story across Yanhuang University, making Xia Ping's victory the school's hottest news.
• Xie Hao and his companions recovered in the hospital, complained about losing a thousand Energy Stones, and vowed to take revenge on Xia Ping.
• Xie Hao heard a crowd approaching, and the hospital room door swung open.

Xie Hao and the other Elite Students were swarmed by student reporters after news spread that freshman Xia Ping had defeated them. After discovering the School Forum post documenting their loss, they blamed Xia Ping and vowed never to forgive him, while Xie Hao fainted from rage.

• More than a hundred student reporters crowded into the hospital room and questioned Xie Hao and the injured Elite Students about losing to Xia Ping.
• Hospital staff and security guards drove the reporters out as Xie Hao angrily ordered them to leave.
• An Elite Student found a trending School Forum post showing details and photos of their defeat at the Training Tower.
• Xie Hao and the other Elite Students accused Xia Ping of posting the material to disgrace them and vowed never to forgive him.
• Xie Hao roared in anger and fainted onto his bed.

After learning Xia Ping had defeated Yanhuang University's Elite Students, Nie Wudao suspected he might have killed Nie Zhen and ordered him watched for clues. Meanwhile, Xia Ping refined the Demon Spirit Mine's treasures and reached the peak of the third level of the Martial Master Realm.

• Nie Wudao recognized Xia Ping as a suspect in Nie Zhen's death, but his elders argued that Xia Ping had seemed too weak and used the wrong martial arts to be the killer.
• Nie Wudao ordered his people to watch Xia Ping and alert him if Xia Ping revealed that he possessed Nie Zhen's Golden Light Bead.
• Xia Ping refined the Demon Cores and Demon Spirit Stones in his training room, absorbing their life energy to strengthen his true essence.
• Xia Ping broke through several meridians, formed three resonating meridian circuits, and reached the peak of the third level of the Martial Master Realm.

Xia Ping broke through to Martial Master, Fourth Heaven, and tested his greatly increased strength. After checking his rewards, he noticed missed calls from Liang Kuan about the stolen goods Giant Corporation was selling and called him for an update.

• Xia Ping opened his thirty-seventh meridian and advanced to Martial Master, Fourth Heaven.
• Xia Ping discovered that his meridians, true essence, physical strength, and mental power had grown stronger as his body continued evolving through the Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Xia Ping tested his strength by destroying the Training Room's metal gate and blasting apart a stone garden rock with one punch.
• Xia Ping learned that Elite Students had earned him 1.5 million Hate Points and recalled receiving eight thousand Energy Stones and a Blood Flood Dragon Pill.
• Xia Ping found missed calls from Liang Kuan about the stolen goods he had given Giant Corporation to sell, then called him to ask how the sale had gone.

Liang Kuan told Xia Ping about Water Moon Grass at Cold Moon Pool, which could help him advance toward qualifying for the Genius Tournament. Xia Ping learned that the pool was controlled by the Silver Flood Dragon King and its deadly Silver Cold Snakes, and Liang Kuan also reported that Xia Ping’s items had sold for a fortune.

• Liang Kuan contacted Xia Ping, noticed he had reached the Fourth Heaven of the Martial Master Realm, and heard that he planned to win the Genius Tournament.
• Liang Kuan explained that Water Moon Grass from Cold Moon Pool could balance Xia Ping’s fire-element cultivation and speed his progress.
• Liang Kuan warned Xia Ping that Cold Moon Pool was occupied by the Silver Flood Dragon King and guarded by vast numbers of venomous Silver Cold Snakes.
• Liang Kuan told Xia Ping that Giant Corporation had sold his items, reporting a total of 150 billion Federal Coins.
• Xia Ping was astonished by the reported fortune, which the narration later described as 180 billion Federal Coins.