Recaps

Zhao Zhong punished Wang Dongcheng for accusing Xia Ping and announced that Giant Corporation would open Ruin 88, a deadly trial ruin. The Grandmasters chose to enter, and Zhao Zhong’s spaceship carried them to the ruin.

• Wang Dongcheng tried to have Xia Ping arrested, but Zhao Zhong rebuked him and expelled him from the expedition.
• Wang Dongcheng insulted Zhao Zhong and invoked his family ties, so Zhao Zhong knocked him unconscious and ordered guards to remove him.
• Zhao Zhong explained that Ruin 88 tested entrants, offered great rewards to those who passed, and killed those who failed.
• The Grandmasters accepted the trial’s high death rate and chose not to withdraw.
• Zhao Zhong sent the Grandmasters, including Xia Ping, aboard a spaceship that jumped through space to Ruin 88.

Xia Ping and the other Grandmasters arrived at Ruin 88, where Ling Guoliang warned them that the trial was deadly and opened the entrance. Xia Ping entered first and was transported alone to the Trial Space, where his physical assessment began.

• Xia Ping and the Grandmasters landed at Ruin 88 and followed Ling Guoliang into its heavily guarded base.
• Ling Guoliang warned them that the trial’s death rate exceeded fifty percent and that weaker participants faced an even higher risk, but none withdrew.
• Ling Guoliang opened the passage into the ruins, and Xia Ping entered first before the other Grandmasters followed.
• The entrance sealed after all the Grandmasters entered, and each was transported to a separate space.
• A pillar of light struck Xia Ping in the Trial Space, and a voice announced the start of his physical assessment.

Xia Ping qualified for the highest-level trial in the ruins and battled waves of liquid robots. After discovering that their silver cores were vulnerable to his Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, he destroyed the first eighteen, but another eighteen appeared with spears.

• The system assessed Xia Ping as a nineteen-year-old Grandmaster Fourth Heaven Realm human with SSS-ranked attributes and an immeasurable bloodline, then began the highest-level trial.
• Eighteen sword-wielding liquid robots attacked Xia Ping, but his palms and Northern Underworld Body Protection Art failed to destroy them.
• Xia Ping used Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds to shatter the robots' silver cores and turn them into pools of black liquid.
• Another eighteen liquid robots appeared, this time armed with spears, and charged at Xia Ping.

Xia Ping defeated wave after wave of weapon-wielding robots to pass the first round of the Death Trial, then was transported to a chamber of mysterious diagrams as the second round began. The trial’s mechanical voice announced that he might earn the Star Sect’s legacy if he survived.

• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to destroy eighteen silver spear-wielding Liquid Robots and then faced successive waves of robots with different weapons.
• Xia Ping endured the attacks with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, eventually smashing the final robot.
• The mechanical voice announced that Xia Ping had passed the first round and granted him half an hour to rest before the second round.
• After the rest period, the trial transported Xia Ping to a crystal-walled chamber covered in mysterious diagrams and characters.
• Xia Ping’s mind was drawn toward a martial world where a glowing figure demonstrated a peerless art, before the mechanical voice announced the second round’s start.

Xia Ping learned that the Star-Drawing Technique was the trial required to escape Ruin 88 and used the Super Hatred System to master the Saint-level art. He immediately began drawing down the power of the stars, astonishing the ruin’s mechanical voice.

• The mechanical voice told Xia Ping he had to learn the Star-Drawing Technique within a year or fail the trial and die.
• Xia Ping asked the Super Hatred System to scan the technique and learned it was a top-grade Saint-level art that cost two hundred million Hate Points.
• Xia Ping spent the Hate Points, received the technique’s knowledge, and saw a vision of a powerful figure drawing on the stars.
• Xia Ping began practicing immediately, opening his 108,000 pores and drawing streams of azure starlight into his body.
• The mechanical voice watched in astonishment as Xia Ping glowed like a gigantic planet while absorbing the power of the stars.

Xia Ping mastered the Star-Drawing Technique and passed the second round of the Death Trial. He followed a dark tunnel to a mysterious palace, where a figure suddenly appeared before him.

• Xia Ping cultivated the Star-Drawing Technique, drawing in star power that opened two acupoints and strengthened his body.
• Xia Ping cultivated for three days and nights without hunger, then asked the watching voice whether he had passed the trial.
• The voice declared that Xia Ping had passed the second round of the Death Trial and opened a passage to his reward.
• Xia Ping used the Kunpeng Step to cross the tunnel and reach a vast palace beneath a starry sky.
• A figure formed from descending beams of light and appeared in front of Xia Ping.

Xia Ping met Cat Immortal, the Smart Brain of the base, and learned about the Cloud Sky Realm’s place in the vast universe and how Yanhuang Planet became connected to it. After boasting of the Star Sect’s Planet-Annihilating Cannon, Cat Immortal admitted it had been destroyed, leading Xia Ping to suspect the sect had fallen.

• Cat Immortal introduced itself as the base’s Smart Brain and said it had observed the Cloud Sky Realm for tens of thousands of years.
• Cat Immortal explained that the Cloud Sky Realm was a small cosmic continent and described other vast natural and artificial realms.
• Cat Immortal said a wormhole between Yanhuang Planet and the Cloud Sky Realm had formed by chance.
• Xia Ping asked for his trial reward, and Cat Immortal bragged that the Star Sect possessed a Planet-Annihilating Cannon capable of destroying the Cloud Sky Realm.
• Cat Immortal admitted the cannon had been destroyed, and Xia Ping asked whether the Star Sect had declined and been wiped out.

Cat Immortal explained how Star Sect was nearly destroyed after its Saint sect master offended a stronger Saint, then described the nine levels of the Mortal Realm and their standing in the universe. Xia Ping learned that even the Cloud Sky Realm’s Kings were low-ranking by cosmic standards.

• Cat Immortal said Star Sect’s sect master had offended a powerful Saint, and the resulting conflict had nearly wiped out the sect.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the universe called the King Realm the Mortal Realm and divided it into nine levels, from Purple Mansion to Lightning Tribulation.
• Cat Immortal explained that opening the Purple Mansion fused spiritual power and astral energy into magic power, marking entry into the King Realm.
• Cat Immortal described how As-You-Will and Divine Ability experts controlled magic power and gained strength, though the universe still regarded them as cannon fodder.
• Cat Immortal outlined the growing status of higher-level experts, from Treasure Refining Realm artisans to Lightning Tribulation Realm figures nearing sainthood.

Cat Immortal explained the power and dangers of saints, urging Xia Ping to keep a low profile. After Xia Ping passed the Star Sect’s trial and became its sole heir, Cat Immortal gave him three rewards, including a Smart Brain that could connect to the Cosmic Virtual Network.

• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that saints ruled over star domains but could still be killed by stronger saints, and refused to name the one who had slain his former master.
• Cat Immortal admitted that his master had died after trying to seize another person’s treasure, and advised Xia Ping to avoid trouble and quietly grow stronger.
• Xia Ping promised to keep a low profile, satisfying Cat Immortal.
• Cat Immortal recognized Xia Ping as the Star Sect’s sole heir and gave him a Cosmic Protective Suit, a Star Sect token, and a silver-white Cosmic Communicator.
• Xia Ping put on the suit and ring, then learned the Smart Brain could translate languages, store star maps, and connect to the Cosmic Virtual Network.

Xia Ping bound the Smart Brain to his soul and entered the Cosmic Virtual Network for the first time. Cat Immortal explained how its virtual spaces worked and revealed that the Martial Arts Space let users train with experience that carried over to their real bodies.

• Xia Ping bound the Smart Brain as its First Sequence User and gained its highest authority.
• Xia Ping connected to the Cosmic Virtual Network and appeared in its Entrance Hall.
• Xia Ping tested the virtual projection by striking a wall, and Cat Immortal warned that virtual death could damage his spirit.
• Cat Immortal showed Xia Ping the network's different spaces and explained that users needed Universal Coins for entertainment and learning services.
• Cat Immortal explained that the Martial Arts Space slowed time tenfold and transmitted training experience to users' real bodies.

Xia Ping used one of Cat Immortal’s prepared identities to register for the Cosmic Virtual Network, choosing the provocative alias Wu Wudi. He entered the Martial Arts Space and arrived in a Novice Village, where a group of children mocked him for being an adult.

• Cat Immortal explained that Xia Ping needed a virtual network account to enter and gave him fabricated identity records to use.
• Xia Ping rejected using his real name and registered as Wu Wudi, ignoring Cat Immortal’s warning that the name would attract trouble.
• Xia Ping entered the Martial Arts Space and appeared in an old-fashioned village surrounded by mountains and lush scenery.
• Several elf children and other young-looking residents gathered around Xia Ping and ridiculed him for being an adult in the Novice Village.

Xia Ping entered the virtual Martial Arts Space but was sent to Novice Village because he had not reached the Purple Mansion Realm. The children there mistook him for a strange, weak native, until he showed that he could easily overpower them.

• The Cat Immortal explained that Xia Ping was placed in Novice Village because he had not reached the Purple Mansion Realm, and described the powerful human races found across the universe.
• The children crowded around Xia Ping, called him a native, and poked and prodded him out of curiosity.
• When Xia Ping set Jiajia down, a chubby boy attacked him to protect her, but Xia Ping stopped his punch and sent him flying.
• A boy in a black suit challenged Xia Ping at high speed, but Xia Ping struck him back through a house.

Xia Ping defeated a group of powerful children in Novice Village and learned that he could leave by passing the Martial Arts Academy’s test or opening his Purple Mansion. Cat Immortal urged him to seek the academy’s rewards and explained that the Universal Heaven-Reaching Express Company could deliver them to him, leaving Xia Ping concerned about exposing the Cloud Sky Realm.

• The children attacked Xia Ping, but he easily saw through their immature techniques and knocked them down.
• Xia Ping threatened the children into silence and asked how he could leave Novice Village.
• A little girl explained that he could pass the Martial Arts Academy’s test or open his Purple Mansion to leave.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the academy offered valuable rewards and could even attract a Saint to take him as a disciple.
• Cat Immortal said the Universal Heaven-Reaching Express Company could deliver rewards across the universe and assured Xia Ping that it kept customers’ information private.

Xia Ping learned that deliveries from the universe cost huge sums of Universal Coins, then discovered he needed money even to take the Martial Arts Academy entrance exam. A little girl named Jiajia had 1.3 million Universal Coins in her account, though she did not know why she had so much.

• Cat Immortal explained that Universal Heaven-Reaching Express deliveries cost at least a million Universal Coins and that the Star Sect had fled without its funds to avoid detection by a Saint.
• Xia Ping went with the children to the Martial Arts Academy and learned that the entrance exam cost ten Universal Coins, which he could not afford.
• The children discussed their bank accounts, and Jiajia discovered that hers held 1.3 million Universal Coins.
• Jiajia told Xia Ping that adults had given her money in red envelopes and transfers during New Year and on her birthdays, and her mother had deposited it.

Xia Ping persuaded a group of children to lend him the money in their bank accounts, promising to repay it over a hundred years. He borrowed 23 million Universal Coins and left the children reassured by paying them their first annual installment.

• The children discovered that their bank accounts held hundreds of thousands to over a million Universal Coins each.
• Xia Ping offered to borrow the children's money and repay their principal in yearly installments over a hundred years.
• The children trusted Xia Ping because he was a native and eagerly competed to lend him their money.
• Xia Ping signed loan agreements and borrowed a total of 23 million Universal Coins.
• Xia Ping transferred the children their first year's payment, and they decided he was trustworthy.

Xia Ping entered the Martial Arts Academy examination and learned he would face a Saint Phantom, a formidable opponent whose strength was adjusted to match his own. The exam began with the Saint Phantom launching a devastating punch at him.

• The children logged off to return to school, and Xia Ping headed to the Martial Arts Academy.
• Xia Ping paid ten Universal Coins to enter the academy and encountered a Saint Phantom examiner.
• The Cat Immortal explained that the phantom simulated a Saint's martial arts skill and experience, though it would suppress its strength to Xia Ping's level.
• A mechanical voice announced Xia Ping's examination, and he steadied himself before it began.
• The Saint Phantom opened the examination with a single crushing punch that unleashed hundreds of sonic booms.

Xia Ping fought the Saint Phantom, whose Dao Realm boxing overwhelmed his techniques with rapid, spiraling punches. Though the battle remained at a stalemate, Xia Ping began to grasp the essence of its Spiral Qi Energy and saw a way to improve his attacks.

• The Saint Phantom unleashed a thousand punches, and Xia Ping struggled to defend himself with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.
• The Saint Phantom struck Xia Ping’s forehead and sent him flying, but he quickly stood up and continued fighting.
• Xia Ping counterattacked with nearly every martial art he knew, but the Saint Phantom effortlessly countered them all.
• Xia Ping and the Saint Phantom reached a stalemate, with his defense keeping him standing but his attacks unable to defeat the puppet.
• After another powerful punch sent Xia Ping flying, he realized he was beginning to understand the Saint Phantom’s Spiral Qi Energy.

Xia Ping fought the Saint Phantom for ten days and ten nights in virtual time, using the battle to learn its techniques and master Spiral Force. He defeated the phantom with a single spiraling punch, perfectly passed the test, and earned ten thousand Universal Coins.

• Xia Ping used the Saint Phantom's relentless attacks and his Golden Crow Eye to study its movements and correct his martial arts flaws.
• After ten days and ten nights of fighting, Xia Ping grasped the Saint Phantom's boxing and transformed his inner force into Spiral Force.
• Xia Ping used Spiral Force to pin the Saint Phantom in place and destroy it with a single punch.
• A mechanical voice announced that trial-taker Wu Wudi had perfectly passed the test and awarded him ten thousand Universal Coins.
• Xia Ping collapsed from exhaustion as Cat Immortal watched in disbelief at his feat.

Ye Mengyao learned that a local in the Cosmic Virtual Network’s Novice Village had borrowed 23 million Universal Coins from Ye Jiajia and her friends under a misleading repayment scheme. After realizing he had likely crippled his cultivation to enter the Novice Village, Ye Mengyao and her family became determined to confront him.

• Ye Jiajia told Ye Mengyao that she had lent 1.3 million Federal Coins to a local who promised to repay her 13,000 a year for a hundred years.
• Ye Jiajia revealed that her friends had also lent money, bringing the total borrowed to 23 million Universal Coins.
• Ye Mengyao told Ye Jiajia to wait while she informed their parents and relatives, who grew furious that the local had swindled the children.
• Ye Mengyao wondered how the local had entered the Novice Village, and Ye Jiajia's father concluded that he had crippled his cultivation to get in and obtain the money.
• Ye Mengyao clenched her fists and resolved to find the swindler and settle the score.

The prominent families of the Lingyun Kingdom learned that a swindler had borrowed twenty-three million Universal Coins from their children through legally binding, interest-free contracts, leaving them unable to report him for fraud. They decided to pursue him in Novice Village through underhanded means, though they still did not know how to locate him.

• The Liu Family and other great families discovered that a swindler had taken twenty-three million Universal Coins from their children.
• The families learned that the loans were covered by signed contracts and that Lingyun Kingdom law gave children full civil capacity from age three, making the contracts valid.
• The families realized the swindler was in Novice Village on the Cosmic Virtual Network and could not be tracked through the network.
• Angry family members decided to send people who crippled their cultivation into Novice Village to find and punish the swindler.

After passing the Martial Arts Academy test, Xia Ping emerged into a crowd of thugs demanding repayment for money he had borrowed from wealthy young men. He defended himself with legal arguments and jokes, but the scar-faced man attacked him.

• Xia Ping left the academy and found the Novice Village crowded with vicious-looking adults.
• Xia Ping introduced himself as Wu Wudi, and the men accused him of swindling young masters from prominent families.
• Xia Ping showed them a written loan agreement and insisted he would repay the money in installments over a hundred years.
• Xia Ping tried to persuade the men that the money had been a charitable act, and two of them briefly agreed with him.
• The scar-faced man slapped his gullible companions, threatened Xia Ping, and charged at him.

Xia Ping defeated Scarface with a single punch, stunning the men who had come after him. He challenged the rest to attack together, and they charged at him.

• Scarface attacked Xia Ping with the Mountain Fist Technique, while onlookers expected him to win.
• Xia Ping countered with a punch whose Spiral Force overwhelmed Scarface and made him explode into a ball of light.
• The men were shocked that Scarface had been defeated in one punch and wondered how Xia Ping had done it.
• Xia Ping mocked the group and invited them to attack him all at once.
• Enraged by Xia Ping's taunts, the men agreed to attack together and rushed him.

Xia Ping faced a group of powerful grandmasters in the virtual network and overwhelmed them with his Spiral Fist Force. He left the fight having killed one attacker after another with casual punches.

• A sword grandmaster, a Seven-Severing Palm user, a Wind-Severing Blade wielder, and the other experts attacked Xia Ping together.
• Xia Ping calmly punched the sword expert, tore through his sword aura, and blasted him to pieces.
• Xia Ping's next punch swallowed the young man's Seven-Severing Palm force and crushed his head.
• Xia Ping continued beating the remaining grandmasters to pieces with straightforward punches and kicks.

Xia Ping stopped practicing Spiral Force after defeating the group of men who had come to punish him, forcing them out of the Virtual Network World. After the young masters watched a recording revealing his mastery of Saint-level martial arts, Xia Ping sent a warning that he would target their sons if they troubled him again.

• Xia Ping stopped practicing and found that everyone around him had been defeated and forcibly logged out of the Virtual Network World.
• The scarred man and the others admitted to the young masters that Xia Ping had beaten them despite their numbers.
• The scarred man showed the young masters a recording of Xia Ping defeating the group with Spiral Force.
• A young master recognized Spiral Force as an esoteric principle of Saint-level martial arts, and the group wondered who had taught it to Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping sent the scarred man a message warning them not to trouble him again or he would beat up their sons.

The prominent families' young masters were enraged when Xia Ping threatened to target their children in Novice Village, where the Martial Arts Space offered vital training opportunities. After Xia Ping told them to get lost, they decided to keep their children offline temporarily and send more experts to defeat him.

• The young masters denounced Xia Ping for threatening to bully their children, but recognized that their families depended on the Martial Arts Space's opportunities and accelerated training time.
• One young master ordered the scar-faced man to reject Xia Ping's threat and demand that he return the money and apologize.
• Xia Ping replied, "Get lost!", infuriating the prominent families' young masters.
• The young masters considered keeping their children out of the Martial Arts Space, while acknowledging they could not do so forever.
• The group resolved to send experts into Novice Village to repeatedly attack Wu Wudi and overwhelm him with numbers.