Recaps

Xia Ping booked all twenty Gravity Chambers and taunted the Elite Students who questioned him. He then used an alternate account to spread rumors that he planned to block their training for two months, leaving them convinced he was about to sabotage their chances in the Genius Tournament.

• Xia Ping told the Elite Students he had booked the Gravity Chambers because he could afford to, then entered one as they angrily insulted him.
• Xia Ping listened from inside as the Elite Students speculated about his motives and mocked his wealth and reputation.
• That evening, Xia Ping used an alternate account to claim he planned to book every Gravity Chamber for two months to take revenge on the Elite Students.
• Xia Ping's account listed his past exploits, persuading Elite Students that he might really sabotage their training before the Genius Tournament.
• Xia Ping's alternate account spread a final claim that he had gathered enough points and was heading to the administration office to book every chamber.

Xia Ping used rumors and a shameless show of wealth to make the Elite Students believe he planned to book every Gravity Chamber for two months. The Elite Students decided to pool their points to stop him, while Xia Ping left pleased that his scheme had worked.

• Xia Ping rushed to the Training Tower management office after spreading news that he would book every Gravity Chamber.
• The Elite Students confronted Xia Ping and accused him of scheming to keep them from training.
• Xia Ping admitted he planned to book every chamber for two months to punish the Elite Students for ostracizing him.
• Xia Ping mocked the Elite Students as broke nobodies and claimed they would have to train outside.
• The Elite Students insisted they could pool their points or take out a loan to book the chambers themselves.
• Xia Ping pretended to lose his temper and left, while the Elite Students hurried off to pool their money.

Xia Ping manipulated the Elite Students into booking every Gravity Chamber, then announced that he would rent out twenty chambers at triple the usual rate. The chapter left the students stunned by his price hike.

• Elite Students rushed to reserve Gravity Chambers after Xia Ping booked one and rumors spread that few remained.
• Xia Ping used an alternate account to warn that the chambers would be unavailable for two months unless students booked immediately.
• Hundreds of Gravity Chambers were reserved within a day, leaving no spots for students who had waited.
• Xia Ping revealed that he had arranged the rush using a scarcity tactic he remembered from his previous life.
• Xia Ping offered twenty Gravity Chambers for rent at three hundred points per hour, three times the previous price.

Xia Ping raised the price of access to his Gravity Chamber, and the other Elite Students who had reserved chambers followed his lead to recoup their losses. The Elite Students who had hoped to rent chambers cheaply were left without options as their group fractured over money.

• Xia Ping offered Gravity Chamber access for three hundred credits an hour and warned that he would raise the price to five hundred the next day.
• Elite Students who rejected Xia Ping’s price went to rent chambers from other reservists, but those students demanded at least three hundred credits an hour.
• The other reservists explained that they had lost credits on their reservations and refused to lend out chambers cheaply.
• Elite Students tried to appeal to their classmates’ friendship and unity, but the reservists told them to get lost.
• Xia Ping concluded that the group had split apart and calmly waited, confident that he had won.

Xia Ping profited from the Elite Students’ scramble for Gravity Chamber reservations, selling all nineteen of his chambers for five hundred points an hour and earning over thirteen million points. After the market spiraled into chaos, he decided to leave the speculation behind and focus on cultivation.

• The Elite Students’ boycott collapsed when students facing cultivation bottlenecks began paying three hundred points an hour for chamber access.
• As demand outstripped supply, students raised resale prices as high as a thousand points an hour, while others bought reservations to resell them or lent money at steep rates.
• Xia Ping sold all nineteen of his Gravity Chambers for five hundred points an hour, earning more than thirteen million points.
• Xia Ping accepted that he had not sold at the highest price and left the chaos behind to focus on cultivation.

The school administration stopped speculation in Gravity Chamber reservations, causing prices to collapse and speculators to suffer huge losses. Xia Ping had sold his reservations in time and made more than ten million points, then focused on cultivation as he neared a breakthrough to the sixth level of the Martial Master realm; the chapter ended with hostile Elite Students blocking his way at the Training Tower.

• The school administration banned reservation speculation, limited each student to one chamber for one day, and capped prices at five hundred points per hour.
• Gravity Chamber prices plunged, leaving speculators with heavy losses, while the school rejected their demands for compensation and confined students who rioted.
• Xia Ping felt no sympathy for the speculators and noted that selling his reservations early had earned him more than ten million points.
• After weeks of cultivation with treasures in the Gravity Chamber, Xia Ping approached the sixth level of the Martial Master realm and set his sights on the Genius Tournament.
• When Xia Ping went to the Training Tower, a hostile group of Elite Students blocked the entrance.

Chen Dong and the other Elite Students confronted Xia Ping and demanded compensation for their gambling losses, but Xia Ping refused and defeated one attacker with a single palm strike. He left the students furious and humiliated, warning them not to challenge him again.

• Chen Dong confronted Xia Ping and accused him of profiting from the Elite Students' losses, demanding that he explain himself.
• Xia Ping admitted making over thirteen million points but refused to compensate the students, who then demanded his money.
• Xia Ping mocked the Elite Students and told them to kneel if they wanted any of his points.
• An Elite Student at the Sixth Heaven attacked Xia Ping with an energy blade, but Xia Ping shattered the attack and sent him flying with his Immovable Tathagata Palm.
• Xia Ping taunted the defeated senior and warned the Elite Students to keep their distance, and the injured student fainted from rage and humiliation.

Xia Ping defeated Chen Dong and the Elite Students who tried to stop him from entering the Training Tower, then mocked them for trying to extort him. A powerful senior intervened and attacked Xia Ping with a massive hand of true energy.

• The Elite Students surrounded Xia Ping, and Chen Dong attacked him with a purple-flamed broadsword.
• Xia Ping struck Chen Dong with the No-Beat Palm, sent him crashing into other students, and left him badly injured.
• Xia Ping charged the remaining Elite Students and defeated them, drawing a crowd of stunned onlookers.
• Xia Ping taunted Chen Dong and the others for trying to extort him and stop him from entering the Training Tower.
• A senior in the Training Tower rebuked Xia Ping for disrespecting his seniors and summoned a massive hand of true energy to seize him.

A powerful Elite Student used the king-grade top-tier Nether Narcissus Scroll to imprison Xia Ping and demanded that he reflect on his behavior and apologize. Xia Ping remained defiant inside the Nether Water Prison, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• A mysterious senior attacked Xia Ping with a giant hand, but Xia Ping unleashed his qi and struck back.
• The senior revealed the Nether Narcissus Scroll, a king-grade top-tier qi art, and Xia Ping answered with a powerful Buddhist fist.
• The scroll turned into torrents of water and trapped Xia Ping in an inescapable Nether Water Prison.
• The senior said he would keep Xia Ping imprisoned until he apologized, and Xia Ping cursed him and shouted, "Destroy!"

Xia Ping broke out of Lu Boming’s Nether Water Prison with the Spear of Hell, destroying the Nether Narcissus Scroll and enraging its owner. As Lu Boming prepared to fight Xia Ping, an elderly man intervened and stopped them.

• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to shatter the Nether Water Prison and pierce the Nether Narcissus Scroll, then walked out as the backlash injured Lu Boming.
• The Elite Students recognized the blue-robed cultivator as Lu Boming, an eighth-level Martial Master, and Xia Ping taunted him despite their difference in cultivation.
• Lu Boming summoned the Nether Narcissus Scroll and gathered water-element energy to attack Xia Ping.
• An elderly man in white appeared, suppressed Lu Boming, dispelled the scroll, and stopped the fight.

Elder Huang stopped Lu Boming from attacking Xia Ping and forbade further fighting on campus. Lu Boming left after threatening to face Xia Ping at the upcoming Genius Tournament, while Xia Ping escaped punishment.

• Elder Huang arrived and reprimanded Lu Boming for attacking Xia Ping on school grounds.
• Xia Ping urged Elder Huang to punish and expel Lu Boming, accusing him of attempted murder and insisting witnesses and cameras could prove it.
• Lu Boming lost his temper and prepared to attack Xia Ping, but Elder Huang ordered everyone to stop fighting and threatened expulsion for anyone who disobeyed.
• Lu Boming warned Xia Ping that they could settle matters at the upcoming Genius Tournament, then left.
• Elder Huang dismissed the Elite Students, and Xia Ping left without being punished.

Xia Ping’s windfall sparked resentment among Yanhuang University students, while the Pingtian Sect argued with his critics and faced accusations of bullying. Unaware of the uproar, Xia Ping cultivated in the Gravity Chamber, reaching a critical moment.

• Students discussed Xia Ping’s fight with Lu Boming and condemned him for making over ten million points from the Elite Students.
• Feng Hetang and the Pingtian Sect defended Xia Ping and mocked the students who had lost points.
• The Elite Students accused the Pingtian Sect of bullying others, claiming territory, and planning to collect protection money.
• Xia Ping cultivated in the Gravity Chamber, absorbing energy from Water Moon Grass and Energy Stones through his pores to refine true essence.

Xia Ping tempered his body in the Gravity Chamber, broke through to the sixth level of the Martial Master realm, and awakened the first signs of the Hell Golden Crow Eye in his left eye. The system warned that using the eye before his body was strong enough could make his body and soul collapse.

• Xia Ping endured the Gravity Chamber’s pressure as Pure Yang Medicinal Qi repaired and strengthened his body.
• Xia Ping broke through his sixty-first meridian and reached the sixth level of the Martial Master realm.
• Two or three Hell Golden Crow Cells awakened, improving Xia Ping’s strength and defenses.
• Xia Ping’s left eye briefly gained enhanced vision and the ability to see through walls, but using it caused severe pain and exhaustion.
• The system identified the ability as the Hell Golden Crow Eye and warned Xia Ping that overusing it could make his body and soul collapse.

Xia Ping learned that the Giant Corporation had sold his goods for 570 billion Federal Coins, and Liang Kuan introduced him to the possibility of buying a Super Warship. After three weeks of cultivation, Xia Ping prepared to take part in the Genius Tournament.

• Liang Kuan told Xia Ping that the goods had sold for 570 billion Federal Coins, and Xia Ping kept the source of the goods secret.
• Liang Kuan explained that a Super Warship could make space jumps and cost at least 50 trillion Federal Coins, prompting Xia Ping to consider earning the money by robbing wealthy Demon Kings.
• Liang Kuan asked Xia Ping about the upcoming Genius Tournament, and Xia Ping said he would do his best.
• Xia Ping cultivated to consolidate his strength and practice with his Hell Golden Crow Eye, and three weeks later the Genius Tournament began.

Xia Ping joined the Elite Students gathered for the Genius Tournament, where many underestimated his strength. Vice Principal Lu Shuwen arrived aboard a powerful battleship and transported the students inside to begin the tournament.

• Xia Ping received the notice to gather at the Training Tower plaza and headed there after strengthening his cultivation and Hell Golden Crow Bloodline.
• Elite Students discussed Xia Ping’s reputation and doubted he could compete with the tournament’s strongest contenders.
• Lu Shuwen arrived above the plaza aboard a battleship, and the students recognized him as an invincible King and a legendary figure.
• Lu Shuwen confirmed that the Elite Students had gathered and used the battleship’s energy to carry them all aboard.

Aboard the battleship, Xia Ping and the other contestants learned the Genius Tournament rules, its brutal survival preliminaries, and the rewards for qualifying. They also heard about several formidable contenders, including Xie Anshou, Feng Qiudao, and Bai Qingqing, as they headed for Sun Moon City.

• Xia Ping and the other contestants received an email explaining that the Genius Tournament would take place in Sun Moon City and consist of two rounds.
• A contestant read that one million entrants would compete in week-long survival preliminaries across ten zones, with only one thousand qualifying from each zone.
• An Elite Student explained that contestants would earn points by defeating opponents, while Sun Moon City's simulated battlefield and rescue technology would prevent deaths but not serious injuries.
• A student announced the school's rewards, which ranged from five hundred thousand points for qualifying to a hundred million points for first place.
• A contestant described how Xie Anshou became a powerful contender after bathing in Dragon Blood, while another praised Feng Qiudao's Undying Phoenix Blood and King-level cultivation art.
• A student argued that Bai Qingqing could rival Feng Qiudao, citing her awakened Qingluan blood, Seven Orifices Exquisite Body, and seven dantian qi seas.

As the warship carrying Xia Ping’s group headed for Sun Moon City, people across the Cloud Sky Realm prepared for the Genius Tournament, which promised a chance at glory, rewards, and recruitment. The Demon Race also planned to target promising human competitors, leaving the tournament’s rising stakes shadowed by threats of assassination.

• Xia Ping learned about powerful contenders such as Lu Chao, Lian Zhengshun, and Tu Haojie, while Elite Students aboard the warship doubted they could win.
• Teachers at God of War Academy, Black and White Academy, and Heavenly God University urged their students to claim first place.
• King Families promised rewards and advancement to young members who qualified for the Heavenly Demon Battlefield or ranked highly in the tournament.
• Martial arts organizations planned to monitor the competition and recruit standout competitors for their ranks.
• Demon Race assassins decided to put promising human geniuses on their kill list to weaken the Human Race.

Xia Ping arrived in Sun Moon City and was randomly transported into a simulated city as the Genius Tournament preliminaries began. He defeated an eighth-level Martial Master who attacked him, leaving the man disqualified and Xia Ping still in the competition.

• The contestants were transported without warning to ten simulated competition zones, and the Genius Tournament preliminaries began.
• Xia Ping appeared in an empty apartment stocked with weapons and surveyed the deserted city outside.
• A bald eighth-level Martial Master broke into Xia Ping’s apartment and attacked him with a saber.
• Xia Ping shattered the saber and defeated the bald man with one punch.
• The tournament system declared the bald man gravely injured and disqualified, then transported him out of the competition.

After defeating Baldy Wang, Xia Ping decided to seek out strong opponents rather than hide and wait for the competition’s final day. He provoked thirteen martial artists outside a residential building and left them and the livestream audience furious.

• Xia Ping’s defeat of Baldy Wang at the start of the preliminaries shocked spectators, who discussed how he had overcome a stronger opponent with one punch.
• Xia Ping checked his communicator and earned one point for eliminating Baldy Wang.
• Xia Ping rejected the idea of hiding to conserve his strength and planned to fight widely, hoping to break through to the Seventh Heaven of Martial Master Realm and reach the top ten.
• Xia Ping leaped into the garden and used his mental power to scan a one-kilometer area, drawing thirteen hostile martial artists out of the residential building.
• Xia Ping demanded that the martial artists bow and beg forgiveness, then mocked their schools, including Heavenly God University, God of War Academy, and Black and White Academy.
• The martial artists and livestream audience erupted in anger over Xia Ping’s insults.

Xia Ping provoked the other competitors by insulting their universities and a high-school graduate, then defeated the man in yellow with a single roar. When more than ten martial artists attacked him together, Xia Ping countered with the third stance of the Immovable Tathagata Palm.

• Xia Ping mocked the competitors from other universities and claimed that anyone who failed to enter Yanhuang University had no right to live.
• A man in yellow challenged Xia Ping, who insulted him for being a high-school graduate and called him an ignorant fool.
• The man in yellow attacked with his Thirty-Six Great Swift Blades, but Xia Ping defeated him with Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds and sent him out of the arena.
• After Xia Ping taunted the fallen man, someone called for the others to attack, and more than ten competitors charged him.
• Xia Ping unleashed the third stance of the Immovable Tathagata Palm as golden light and a Buddha phantom appeared behind him.

Xia Ping defeated eleven opponents with one palm strike and spared the sole survivor on the condition that he spread word of Xia Ping's challenge. Spectators across the Cloud Sky Realm erupted in anger over Xia Ping's insults toward rival schools and other people.

• Xia Ping killed eleven experts with a palm strike and left the man in blue alive because his Great Kashyapa Qi Shield had protected him.
• Xia Ping ordered the man in blue to spread the claim that Yanhuang University was invincible and invite challengers to the roof of a nearby skyscraper.
• The man in blue agreed, then fled after Xia Ping told him to summon students from other schools.
• Xia Ping headed toward a nearby building while spectators in the Cloud Sky Realm reacted to what they had witnessed.
• Students and spectators from rival schools and other backgrounds condemned Xia Ping's insults and called for him to be punished.

Online backlash against Xia Ping spread to Yanhuang University, and the Pingtian Sect joined the argument to defend him. The insults escalated into a huge online feud, leaving Yanhuang University’s reputation under attack.

• People online blamed Yanhuang University students for Xia Ping’s behavior and rejected students’ attempts to distance themselves from him.
• Feng Hetang and other Pingtian Sect members insulted the critics and defended Xia Ping.
• Angry users threatened the Yanhuang University students, and both sides flooded forums with insults and personal attacks.
• Other Yanhuang University students were attacked online and could not persuade people that they had nothing to do with Xia Ping’s group.
• Su Ji and the other women watched as Xia Ping’s conduct prompted people to question Yanhuang University’s education and reputation.

Xia Ping confronted the Lin Brothers on the rooftop after they demanded that he apologize to God of War Academy. He eliminated Lin Hu with one punch, then shattered Lin Shi and Lin Bao’s saber attack with his palm strike.

• The Lin Brothers arrived and challenged Xia Ping, demanding that he kneel and declare Yanhuang University inferior to God of War Academy.
• Xia Ping attacked Lin Hu with a punch and sent him out of the arena, eliminating him.
• Lin Shi and Lin Bao drew their sabers and unleashed the Lin Family Thirteen Life-Taking Sabers at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used No-Beat Palm to smash their saber lights and strike Lin Shi and Lin Bao with the force of his palm.

Xia Ping defeated Lin Bao and Lin Shi, then broke through to the threshold of the seventh Martial Master level. Li Hu the Heavy Hammer challenged him and struck with his Mountain-Splitting Hammer, but Xia Ping blocked the blow unharmed.

• Xia Ping shattered Lin Bao and Lin Shi's weapons and blasted them into a building, eliminating both brothers from the competition.
• The livestream audience and God of War Academy students were shocked that Xia Ping had overwhelmed the Lin Brothers despite appearing to be a sixth-level Martial Master.
• Xia Ping refined more of the medicine in his body and forced open a seventh meridian, leaving five more to open before he could reach the seventh Martial Master level.
• Li Hu the Heavy Hammer leaped from a nearby building and attacked Xia Ping with his Mountain-Splitting Hammer, claiming Xia Ping's points for himself.
• Xia Ping met Li Hu's hammer with the fourth form of the Immoveable Tathagata Palm and blocked the blow without injury, astonishing Li Hu.

Xia Ping overpowered Li Hu in a contest of strength, but an assassin from the Huang Family intervened with a flying dagger and forced Xia Ping to abandon his attack. Li Hu celebrated the unexpected rescue and believed the Huang Family’s involvement had put Xia Ping at a disadvantage.

• A Heavenly God University student and livestream viewers were stunned when Xia Ping blocked Li Hu’s hammer barehanded.
• Li Hu unleashed the Mountain-Settling Hammer, but Xia Ping answered with the Giant Elephant Axe and cracked Li Hu’s hammer while overpowering him.
• As Li Hu ran out of strength, Xia Ping followed his strike with a left fist aimed at Li Hu’s chest.
• A concealed dagger flew toward Xia Ping from several kilometers away, and Xia Ping escaped using Kunpeng Step, allowing the dagger to pierce thirteen buildings.
• Livestream viewers identified the weapon as a Huang Family Flying Dagger and warned that the assassin clan had targeted Xia Ping.
• Li Hu laughed and claimed that the Huang Family’s backing made Xia Ping as good as dead.