Recaps

Xia Ping redeemed and cultivated the fourth levels of the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art and the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art, strengthening his defenses, assassination techniques, and cultivation. After a night of training, he tracked Shark Seventeen to a fog-shrouded sea maze and prepared to pursue it.

• Xia Ping spent forty million Hate Points to redeem the fourth levels of the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art and the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art.
• Xia Ping discovered that the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art could devour and refine attacks, while the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art let him launch silent, nearly invisible strikes.
• Xia Ping cultivated through the night, absorbed vast amounts of energy, and opened two or three acupoints as his strength and mental power increased.
• Xia Ping set out to track Shark Seventeen and followed its scent across the sea.
• Xia Ping reached a region of black mist, reefs, and maze-like islands that could trap anyone unfamiliar with its waters.

Xia Ping tracked Shark Seventeen to the hidden Blood Shark Island and broke through its natural illusion formation. After wiping out the pirates guarding the island, he faced Shark Seventeen.

• Xia Ping used the Golden Crow Eye to see through the Mist Islands and locate the formation concealing Blood Shark Island.
• Xia Ping shattered the formation and entered the island, alerting the Blood Shark Pirate Crew.
• Hundreds of pirates surrounded Xia Ping, but his Soul-Absorbing Bell incapacitated them with a spiritual shockwave.
• Xia Ping attacked the helpless pirates with black Fireball Bombs, killing or severely injuring them.
• Shark Seventeen leaped from the palace and confronted Xia Ping in a rage.

Xia Ping confronted Shark Seventeen on Blood Shark Island, where Shark Seventeen used the Blood Fiend Flag against him. Xia Ping absorbed the flag’s blood-fiend energy to strengthen himself, and Shark Seventeen fled.

• Shark Seventeen was shocked that Xia Ping had found Blood Shark Island, and Xia Ping told him he would die that day.
• Shark Seventeen unleashed the Blood Fiend Flag, filling the area with corrosive blood-fiend energy.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to swallow and refine the energy, breaking through another acupoint.
• Shark Seventeen realized the flag was strengthening Xia Ping, put it away, and fled at high speed.

Xia Ping killed Shark Seventeen with a dagger formed from his protective qi and took the pirate captain’s head and Blood Fiend Flag as proof and spoils. A new group of Grandmasters arrived, attacked Xia Ping, and clashed with him over the treasure.

• Shark Seventeen vowed to take revenge on Xia Ping and tried to escape with the Blood Fiend Flag.
• Xia Ping used the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art to hurl a silent dagger that pierced Shark Seventeen and exploded, killing him.
• Xia Ping collected the Blood Fiend Flag and Shark Seventeen’s head to prove he had completed his mission.
• A group of Grandmasters arrived, demanded the Blood Fiend Flag, and attacked Xia Ping to seize the treasure.
• Xia Ping struck back with his protective qi, and the clash sent both sides reeling.

Xia Ping confronted the Sin Army members who had ambushed him on Blood Shark Island and learned that Zhang Zi'ang and other former Core Students were among them. The soldiers declared their intention to kill him and avenge their past grievances.

• Zhang Zi'ang recognized Xia Ping and revealed that he was one of the Core Students Xia Ping had sent into the Sin Army.
• Xia Ping mocked Zhang Zi'ang for surviving the Sin Army and demanded compensation for the ambush and attempted robbery.
• Chen Boning accused Xia Ping of arrogance, while Zhang Zi'ang threatened to kill him despite his Grandmaster cultivation.
• Chen Boning said the isolated island would let them kill Xia Ping without consequences, and Sha Senlin vowed to grind his bones to dust.

Xia Ping killed Sha Senlin with a flame attack after easily burning away his Azure Wood Divine Needles. Zhang Zi'ang and the Sin Army members then joined forces against him, and Xia Ping drew the Flame Dragon Divine Sword to face their assault.

• Sha Senlin attacked Xia Ping with Azure Wood Divine Needles, but Xia Ping burned them away with Sun Essence flames.
• Xia Ping shot a flaming bullet into Sha Senlin, killing him and burning his body to ashes.
• Zhang Zi'ang and Chen Boning rallied the Sin Army members to kill Xia Ping, warning them that his identity as a member of the Giant Corporation left them no way to retreat.
• Five sword grandmasters attacked Xia Ping together with the Drunken Dream Sword, unleashing a barrage of sword auras.
• Xia Ping drew the Flame Dragon Divine Sword and released a vast field of flames as a Flame Dragon image appeared behind him.

Xia Ping used the Flame Dragon Divine Sword and the Four Seasons Sword Technique to overwhelm the Sin Army’s Grandmasters. After killing several attackers, he left Zhang Zi'ang and the remaining Grandmasters terrified and determined to finish them off.

• Xia Ping drew the Flame Dragon Divine Sword and blasted back the five Sword Dao Grandmasters.
• Xia Ping’s Springtime Lingering strike killed one Sword Dao Grandmaster, and his Scorching Summer strike killed the other four despite Zhang Zi'ang and the others trying to intervene.
• Zhang Zi'ang and the Sin Army Grandmasters charged Xia Ping with fists, palms, and blades.
• Xia Ping unleashed Autumn Wind Mourns, cutting down five or six Grandmasters with a soul-chilling sword strike.
• Zhang Zi'ang, Chen Boning, and the surviving Grandmasters realized they could not match Xia Ping, but Xia Ping vowed not to let anyone escape.

Xia Ping wiped out the attacking Sin Army and narrowly prevented their explosive collars from causing further destruction. He took Sha Senlin’s Azure Wood Divine Needle manual, adapted its principles into a powerful fire-astral-energy needle technique, and left with a valuable new martial art.

• Xia Ping unleashed the Wither of All Things sword stance, killing the Grandmasters attacking him, including Chen Boning.
• Zhang Zi'ang tried to detonate his Smart Steel Collar, but Xia Ping killed him with the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art before he could act.
• Xia Ping sensed the explosives in the collars, gathered them with astral energy, and threw them away before they exploded.
• Xia Ping searched the dead Sin Army members and found pills and the Azure Wood Divine Needle manual Sha Senlin had carried.
• Xia Ping studied the manual’s principles and created a fire-astral-energy needle that pierced and destroyed a boulder in an explosion.

After Zhang Zi'ang and his companions died on a mission, Sin Army officers began investigating while the news terrified the Core Students. Huo Gang and the others agreed to help a Shadow Demon find Xia Ping so the demons could kill him.

• Sin Army officers learned that Zhang Zi'ang, Chen Boning, and Sha Senlin had died, and a senior general ordered an investigation into the cause.
• Huo Gang and the other Core Students panicked over the deaths, but their collars prevented them from escaping the Sin Army.
• The Core Students blamed Xia Ping for their situation and voiced their hatred of him.
• A Shadow Demon appeared and asked Huo Gang and the others to help locate Xia Ping for the Demon Kings of Ten Thousand Demon Mountain.
• Huo Gang and the others agreed to help the Shadow Demon, who then vanished.

After looting Blood Shark Island, Xia Ping learned that Huo Gang and the Core Students were conspiring with the demon race against him, so he headed for Giant City while training on the Endless Sea. Five days of running across the waves greatly improved his astral energy control and brought him close to the peak of the Grandmaster Second Heaven Realm.

• Xia Ping burned the bodies on Blood Shark Island and emptied the Blood Shark Pirate Crew's treasury, taking its vast stores of treasure.
• Xia Ping discovered that Huo Gang and the Core Students had allied with the demon race and were plotting against him, so he resolved to grow stronger before they found him.
• Xia Ping left for Giant City by walking across the waves to train, and he killed Fishmen who tried to ambush him.
• Xia Ping trained across the Endless Sea for five days, refining his astral energy control and mental power while breaking through several acupoints.
• Xia Ping reached the brink of the Grandmaster Second Heaven Realm's peak and expected to advance to the third heaven soon.

Xia Ping, strengthened by days of cultivating at sea, found Jiang Yaru fighting Fishman Pirates and intervened when a powerful Fishman Grandmaster threatened her. The Flame God Needle killed the Fishman Grandmaster, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Xia Ping mastered the ocean’s currents with astral energy and grew stronger after enduring the waves for days.
• Xia Ping sensed Jiang Yaru leading the humans against a larger force of Fishman Pirates and recognized that she had reached the fifth level of the Martial Master realm.
• A Fishman Grandmaster overwhelmed a human Grandmaster and prepared to strike Jiang Yaru as the humans began to panic.
• Jiang Yaru stayed to protect the humans despite having a secret treasure that could help her escape.
• Xia Ping’s Flame God Needle pierced the Fishman Grandmaster and exploded inside it, blowing its body apart.

Xia Ping arrived on the ship and killed a Fishman Grandmaster, surprising Jiang Yaru and the humans aboard. When five or six more Fishman Grandmasters attacked him, he killed them all with his Flame God Needle.

• The humans cheered when the Fishman Grandmaster exploded, and Jiang Yaru searched for the expert who had killed him.
• Xia Ping crossed the sea and reunited with Jiang Yaru, teasing her until she blushed and wished she could punch him.
• A Fishman Grandmaster accused Xia Ping of killing his younger brother, and five or six Fishman Grandmasters leaped from the pirate ship to attack.
• The humans despaired at the overwhelming force, while the Fishman Grandmasters struck Xia Ping with axes, hammers, and sabers.
• Xia Ping unleashed his Flame God Needle, pierced the Fishman Grandmasters' protective Qi, and blew their bodies apart.

Xia Ping helped the human martial artists defeat the Fishman Pirates, but Wang Rulong accused him of staging the attack to learn about the Earth Heart Ganoderma. The chapter ended with Xia Ping slapping Wang Rulong and knocking out several of his teeth.

• Xia Ping killed several Fishman Grandmasters, giving the human martial artists the chance to defeat the remaining pirates.
• The human martial artists wiped out the Fishman Pirates and thanked Xia Ping for saving them.
• Wang Rulong blamed Xia Ping for the deaths and accused him of arranging the pirate attack to gain information about the Earth Heart Ganoderma.
• Jiang Yaru challenged Wang Rulong’s baseless accusations, but his suspicions made some survivors doubt Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping slapped Wang Rulong, sending him flying and knocking out several of his teeth.

Xia Ping retaliated against Wang Rulong and the Wang Family after they challenged him, beating Wang Rulong and killing a Grandmaster to prove he would not be intimidated. The survivors were left terrified, and Wang Rulong realized his arrogance had cost a Wang Family elder his life.

• Xia Ping slapped Wang Rulong repeatedly for complaining after hiding during the Fishman Pirates' attack.
• Xia Ping kicked a Wang Family Grandmaster overboard when the man tried to intervene, badly injuring him.
• Xia Ping threatened to kill everyone aboard and disguise their deaths as casualties of the Fishman Pirates.
• A Wang Family Grandmaster in a Tang suit dismissed Xia Ping's threats and demanded an apology from him.
• Xia Ping pierced the Tang-suited Grandmaster's heart with the Spear of Hell, killing him and terrifying the witnesses.
• Wang Rulong collapsed and wet himself, realizing his behavior had led to the Wang Family Grandmaster's death.

Xia Ping punished Wang Rulong for accusing him and learned from Jiang Yaru about the dangerous Treasure Island and its spirit medicines. When their ship reached port to take the wounded ashore, Wang Family warships surrounded it and Wang Rulong called out to his uncle.

• A Wang Family master apologized to Xia Ping for Wang Rulong’s accusation and begged him to spare the group.
• Xia Ping ordered Wang Rulong hung from the flagpole for a day as a warning, and the crew obeyed while the Wang Family guards stood by.
• After the others dispersed to tend to the wounded and repair the ship, Jiang Yaru warned Xia Ping that punishing Wang Rulong might provoke the Wang Family.
• Jiang Yaru explained that a martial arts organization had discovered spirit medicines, including the Earth Heart Ganoderma, on dangerous Treasure Island, and Xia Ping decided to go with her.
• The ship reached a nearby port the next day, where Wang Family warships surrounded it and armed personnel boarded; Wang Rulong recognized his uncle and called out to him.

Wang Tong arrived with Wang Family Grandmasters and found Wang Rulong hanging from a flagpole, then tried to handle Xia Ping cautiously because of his backing and reputation. After Wang Tong ordered Wang Rulong to apologize, Xia Ping mocked him until he forced out a humiliating apology, which Xia Ping pretended not to hear.

• Wang Tong arrived with more than a dozen Grandmasters and saw Wang Rulong hanging from the flagpole.
• Wang Tong greeted Xia Ping respectfully, while Wang Rulong demanded that his uncle kill him.
• Wang Tong scolded Wang Rulong and ordered him to apologize to Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping sarcastically warned that Wang Rulong could bring disaster upon the Wang Family and then mocked his reluctance to apologize.
• Wang Rulong stiffly apologized, and Xia Ping pretended he had not heard him.

Xia Ping accepted the Wang Family’s ten-billion-Federal-Coin compensation but refused Wang Tong’s offer to join forces on Treasure Island. Wang Tong later revealed he planned to use the Demon Kings of Ten Thousand Demon Mountain to kill Xia Ping after Xia rejected the invitation.

• Wang Tong apologized on Wang Rulong’s behalf and offered Xia Ping ten billion Federal Coins, which Xia accepted.
• Wang Tong invited Xia Ping to team up with the Wang Family on Treasure Island, but Xia refused and said he preferred to work alone.
• The Wang Family took Wang Rulong down from the flagpole and left, while Jiang Yaru warned Xia Ping to be wary of them.
• At the hospital, Wang Rulong demanded to know why Wang Tong had made him apologize and pay Xia, and Wang Tong explained that attacking a core member of Giant Corporation would put the family at risk.
• Wang Tong told Wang Rulong he intended to track Xia Ping and leak his whereabouts to the Demon Kings of Ten Thousand Demon Mountain, but Xia’s refusal had disrupted the plan.

Wang Tong leaked that Xia Ping planned to visit Treasure Island, drawing the Wang Family, Sin Army Core Students, and Ten Thousand Demon Mountain into a plot to kill him. Demon Kings stationed near the Endless Sea mobilized, leaving Xia Ping facing a coordinated hunt.

• Wang Tong told Wang Rulong that he would spread news of Xia Ping's trip to attract the Demon Kings who hated him, and Wang Rulong insisted on joining the expedition.
• Wang Tong secretly leaked Xia Ping's destination while concealing the Wang Family's involvement.
• Huo Gang, Cao Zhengbin, and the other Core Students learned the news, planned to travel to Treasure Island under the cover of a mission, and called for the Demon Kings to attack Xia Ping.
• The Demon Kings on Ten Thousand Demon Mountain ordered the Demon Kings near the Endless Sea to mobilize and kill Xia Ping before he could grow into a major threat.

Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru sailed toward Treasure Island, knowing the Wang Family and many Demon Kings were following them. As their ship entered the island’s dangerous waters, a gigantic Strange Fish destroyed a vessel and swallowed a Grandmaster, revealing the threat ahead.

• Xia Ping planned to use the voyage to Treasure Island to kill the Demon Kings who had been drawn there by the Wang Family’s leaked information.
• Jiang Yaru spotted two or three Wang Family warships tailing their ship, but Xia Ping let them follow.
• After two or three days at sea, Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru reached stormy waters crowded with ships carrying humans, monsters, and Fishmen.
• Their ship’s energy shield protected it as it entered the dangerous waters, where a hundred-meter Strange Fish smashed another vessel.
• Piranhas tore into the people who fell overboard, and the Strange Fish swallowed a Grandmaster whole despite his attack.

Deep-sea monsters devastated the ships searching for treasure, while Xia Ping used his spiritual force to steer around their attacks. As Wang Tong fired on Xia Ping’s ship, Xia Ping took Jiang Yaru into the Space Ring just before the vessel was destroyed.

• Blue and silver Strange Fish and a massive tentacled octopus attacked the ships, killing many people and trapping the fleet among the monsters.
• The monsters smashed two of the Wang Family’s warships, while Wang Tong and the others escaped aboard their protected main warship.
• Xia Ping used his spiritual force to anticipate attacks and guide his ship through the monsters’ encirclement.
• Wang Rulong urged Wang Tong to fire the main cannon at Xia Ping, and Wang Tong ordered the shot.
• Xia Ping sensed the danger, pulled Jiang Yaru into the Space Ring, and escaped the blast that destroyed their ship.

After escaping an assassination attempt by the Wang Family, Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru reached Treasure Island using his spatial treasure and magical pearls. They entered the island’s giant, spiritually rich wilderness, where Xia Ping’s attempt to collect a ginseng plant drew an attack from a Fishman at Grandmaster Level.

• Xia Ping told Jiang Yaru that the Wang Family’s warships had fired on their ship and explained that they had escaped into his spatial treasure.
• Xia Ping used the Invisibility Bead and Water-Avoiding Pearl to guide himself and Jiang Yaru safely through monster-infested waters toward Treasure Island.
• Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru reached the island and landed at a secluded spot while other ships rushed toward its shore.
• Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru entered the island and found enormous plants and exceptionally dense spiritual energy.
• Xia Ping moved to collect a several-hundred-year-old ginseng plant, but a Fishman at Grandmaster Level attacked him with a spear.

Xia Ping fought the Fishman Grandmaster who attacked him, then faced Jing Wuliang and the Orca Clan after killing the fishman. He blocked Jing Wuliang’s powerful strike and launched a mental attack as the battle continued.

• Xia Ping defeated the Fishman Grandmaster in a clash and struck him with the Flame God Needle.
• Jing Wuliang arrived with Orca Clan subordinates and demanded that Xia Ping stop, but Xia Ping detonated the needle and killed the Fishman Grandmaster.
• Jing Wuliang attacked Xia Ping with the king-grade Fishman Nine Strikes technique.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to absorb Jing Wuliang’s attack.
• Xia Ping unleashed Heavenly Epic against Jing Wuliang and the Orca Clan, targeting their weak mental defenses.

Xia Ping used Heavenly Epic and the Spear of Hell to kill Jing Wuliang and the other Killer Whale Demons. Warned that Fishman grandmasters were approaching, he and Jiang Yaru escaped with the aid of her Search Device, leaving the pursuers to find only corpses.

• Xia Ping trapped Jing Wuliang and the Killer Whale Demons in an illusion of Heaven and hell, then killed them with the Spear of Hell.
• Jiang Yaru detected approaching Fishman grandmasters with a Search Device and warned Xia Ping that they risked being surrounded.
• Jiang Yaru explained that the Search Device could track enemies across Treasure Island despite its distorted magnetic field.
• Xia Ping collected the ginseng, and he and Jiang Yaru used the device to evade their pursuers and leave the area.
• The Fishman grandmasters arrived and found Jing Wuliang's group dead, but Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru were gone.

Xia Ping refined Demon Cores and medicinal ginseng on Treasure Island and absorbed their energy to advance to Grandmaster Three Heavens. After awakening more Hell Golden Crow Cells, he left the cave with greatly increased strength and a further-transformed bloodline.

• Xia Ping refined the Demon Cores and medicinal ginseng he had taken from Jing Wuliang and the others, then devoured their energy.
• Jiang Yaru felt Xia Ping's cultivation disrupting the area and left to find another mountain range for her seclusion.
• Xia Ping absorbed the energy until his true qi reached its limit, then broke through and opened twelve more acupoints.
• Xia Ping advanced to Grandmaster Three Heavens and tested his stronger punch by shattering a distant rock wall.
• Xia Ping realized that forty or fifty more Hell Golden Crow Cells had awakened and estimated that he could withstand attacks from a Grandmaster at the First Heaven without using the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.

Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru set out to find the Earth Heart Ganoderma but encountered the Wang Family disciples who had tried to kill Xia Ping at sea. After Xia Ping attacked them and confronted Wang Tong over their past actions, Wang Rulong called for the group to kill him on the island.

• Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru left their cave to search for the Earth Heart Ganoderma by heading toward crowded areas.
• Wang Tong and Wang Rulong led a group of Wang Family disciples toward them, and Wang Rulong expressed surprise that Xia Ping had survived.
• Xia Ping accused Wang Tong of firing on his ship and trying to kill him, but Wang Tong claimed the attack had been an accident.
• Xia Ping launched Flame God Needles at the Wang Family disciples, and Wang Tong blocked them with a powerful punch.
• Wang Tong threatened Xia Ping over attacking the Wang Family, while Xia Ping reminded him that they had tried to murder a core member of Giant Corporation.
• Wang Rulong urged Wang Tong to stop talking and kill Xia Ping, arguing that no one would learn what happened on the island.