Recaps

Rabbit Linglong explained that the Trial Space held the Five Great Races, whose spirit fruits could help someone reach the King Realm. Xia Ping learned that reaching the King Realm was also the only way to escape the space.

• Rabbit Linglong told Xia Ping that an ancient Demon Race figure had brought the Black Wood Clan, Rock Giant Race, Metal Machine Race, Drought Demon Race, and Slime Race from other planets into the secret realm.
• Rabbit Linglong explained that the Five Great Races cultivated spirit fruits, and that consuming all five kinds together could raise someone to the King Realm.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the Five Elements Spirit Fruits were exceptionally valuable throughout the universe and urged him to obtain them.
• Rabbit Linglong revealed that the spirit fruits grew in heavily guarded orchards within the Five Great Races' territories, and that her group had nearly been wiped out trying to enter the Rock Giants' tribe.
• Rabbit Linglong told Xia Ping and the human Grandmasters that advancing to the King Realm was the only way to leave the Trial Space.

Xia Ping ordered the demons to find the Five Great Races' lairs while he sought a place to rest. Meanwhile, the five races' leaders agreed to send elite forces to hunt him down, with the search set to begin the next day.

• Xia Ping told Rabbit Linglong to have the demons locate the lairs of the Five Great Races, and they reluctantly agreed under his threat.
• Xia Ping led the demons to look for a temporary place to rest.
• The Black Wood Leader told the other leaders that humans had entered the secret realm and that Xia Ping had killed many Black Wood and Rock Giants.
• The Rock Giant Leader warned that Xia Ping possessed a spiritual technique that countered Rock Giants, and the leaders agreed he was a serious threat.
• The Black Wood Leader proposed a joint search, and the leaders agreed to send elite soldiers to hunt Xia Ping starting the next day.

Xia Ping used Spirit Liquid to advance to the seventh heaven of the Grandmaster Realm, strengthening his astral energy and mental power. He discovered the Purple Mansion in his mindscape but failed to open its gate, leaving him with a first step toward the King Realm.

• Xia Ping circulated the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and used the remaining power of the Purple Blood Ginseng and Silver Fruit to open several acupoints.
• Xia Ping drank Spirit Liquid from the Shark Demon King's lair and broke through to the seventh heaven of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Xia Ping formed a fiery bird from his astral energy and sent it crashing into a stone wall, where it melted the rock.
• Xia Ping sensed that his mental power had grown by about thirty percent and discovered a purple gate in his mindscape.
• Xia Ping attacked the purple gate with his mental power, suffered its backlash, and concluded that he could not open the Purple Mansion yet.

Qingluan woke up and learned that Rabbit Linglong had revealed the Trial Secret Realm’s secret to save her, but Qingluan reassured her that she did not blame her. Xia Ping appeared, stopped Rabbit Linglong’s accusations, and easily defeated Qingluan’s attack after revealing he had advanced to the seventh level of the Grandmaster realm.

• Qingluan woke up beside Rabbit Linglong and asked whether she had been harmed by Xia Ping.
• Rabbit Linglong explained that she had revealed the Demon King Path’s secret to save Qingluan, and Qingluan comforted her and said she did not blame her.
• Rabbit Linglong complained that Xia Ping was likely plotting something, but Xia Ping appeared and demanded to know who had spread rumors about him.
• Xia Ping rapped Rabbit Linglong on the head, and Qingluan attacked him to protect her.
• Xia Ping caught Qingluan’s kick and neutralized her demonic power, then revealed that he had reached the seventh level of the Grandmaster realm and threatened to teach her a lesson.

Xia Ping forced Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong to wear maid outfits and ordered the two Demon Race Saintesses to serve as maids. The chapter ended when Doom Crow, Metal Tiger, and several other demon prodigies rushed into the cave with urgent news.

• Xia Ping dismissed Qingluan’s warning and declared that he would punish her and Rabbit Linglong despite his earlier promise.
• Xia Ping retrieved two maid outfits from his Space Ring and forced Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong to put them on.
• Xia Ping ordered the two Saintesses to do laundry, make beds, pour tea, and handle his other needs.
• Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong protested the humiliating outfits and Xia Ping’s demands, but he threatened them against resisting.
• Doom Crow, Metal Tiger, and several demon prodigies hurried into the cave to report something important to Xia Ping.

The Doom Crow reported that the Five Great Races had mobilized to hunt Xia Ping, prompting him to consider attacking them. Though he agreed to wait until they learned more about their strength, he still planned to investigate them himself.

• The Doom Crow and the other monsters entered the cave and found Xia Ping with Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan in embarrassing outfits.
• The Doom Crow told Xia Ping that the Five Great Races were searching the secret realm for him and intended to capture or kill him.
• Xia Ping proposed leading the monsters to attack the Five Great Races, but Rabbit Linglong and the others urged him not to rush into a trap.
• Xia Ping agreed to delay an attack until he knew more about the Five Great Races, but said he would investigate them himself.
• The Doom Crow and the other monsters worried that Xia Ping still intended to provoke the Five Great Races.

The allied Drought Demon, Metal Machine, and Black Wood forces discussed their search for Xia Ping and the Five Great Races’ plan to escape their demon-controlled prison. As they argued over Xia Ping’s Sun Essence, an unknown figure suddenly attacked and critically injured the Metal Machine squad leader.

• The three clans’ squad leaders rested after searching for Xia Ping and agreed that finding him could take at least ten days.
• The leaders discussed the Five Great Races’ thousand-year plan to escape their prison and take revenge on the demons who had enslaved them.
• The Black Wood squad leader warned that Xia Ping’s Sun Essence made him a deadly threat to all three clans.
• The Metal Machine squad leader boasted that its clan could kill Xia Ping without help.
• An unknown figure appeared and kicked the Metal Machine squad leader, crushing its chest and sending it crashing through dozens of trees.

Xia Ping appeared before the three races hunting him and swiftly crippled the Drought Demon squad captain with the Spear of Hell. The Black Wood squad captain ordered the assembled soldiers to attack him together, and they surrounded him with a coordinated assault.

• Xia Ping revealed himself to the Black Wood and Drought Demon squad captains, who recognized him as the human they were hunting.
• The Drought Demon squad captain attacked Xia Ping with the Drought Demon Five Ultimate Palms.
• Xia Ping countered with the Spear of Hell, pierced the Drought Demon captain’s hand, and battered it into a boulder.
• The Black Wood squad captain ordered the soldiers of all three races to kill Xia Ping.
• The Black Wood, Mechanical, and Drought Demon soldiers launched attacks from all sides and surrounded Xia Ping.

Xia Ping used the Star-Drawing Technique to devastate elite soldiers of the Blackwood Race, Drought Demons, and machine race, then ordered his monster allies to capture the survivors. After the captives were bound, he directed Doom Crow and the others to investigate the Five Great Races’ dangerous plan.

• Xia Ping combined the Star-Drawing Technique with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and brought down more than a hundred sun stars, killing or grievously wounding the three races’ soldiers.
• Qingluan, Doom Crow, Rabbit Linglong, Metal Tiger, and the other monsters watched in shock as Xia Ping’s attack overwhelmed the enemy.
• Xia Ping ordered his allies to surround and capture the surviving soldiers of the three races.
• Doom Crow and the other monsters beat the wounded soldiers and bound them, leaving them barely alive.
• Xia Ping told Doom Crow and the others to interrogate the captives about the Five Great Races’ plan, which threatened the Demon Race of the Cloud Sky Realm with extermination.

Doom Crow told Xia Ping that the Five Great Races were building an Ancestor Altar to contact their allies across the universe, and Xia Ping decided they had to stop it despite its Demon King guards. After he ordered the prisoners confined, Qingluan warned that keeping them could reveal the group’s location.

• Doom Crow explained that the Ancestor Altar on Ancient Turtle Mountain would connect the Five Great Races with their companions across the universe.
• Xia Ping learned that Demon Kings guarded the altar and that the Five Great Races’ allies could threaten the entire Cloud Sky Realm.
• A Drought Demon captain taunted Xia Ping about the coming reinforcements, and Xia Ping knocked it unconscious with one punch.
• Xia Ping ordered the captured demons locked up, while Qingluan warned that the Metal Machine Clan might track them through an electromagnetic connection.

Xia Ping used captured soldiers from the three great races as bait, then returned to the hidden cave and focused on stopping the Five Great Races' Ancestor Altar. Cat Immortal reminded him that the Cosmic Virtual Network could help him train faster, and Xia Ping realized it could give him more time to grow stronger.

• Xia Ping reassured the captured soldiers that he would spare them, then ordered them locked in a cave with miniature nuclear bombs planted nearby to ambush rescuers.
• Doom Crow and the other monsters imprisoned the soldiers and gagged them when they protested, while Rabbit Linglong marveled at Xia Ping's preparations.
• An hour later, Xia Ping and the others returned to their hidden cave, and Xia Ping worried that destroying the Five Great Races' Ancestor Altar would be difficult while King-level cultivators guarded it.
• Xia Ping concluded that he needed more time to strengthen himself, and Cat Immortal urged him to use the Cosmic Virtual Network.
• Xia Ping realized the network could accelerate his training and provide expert opponents to help temper his skills.

Xia Ping returned to the Martial Arts Space and found the children avoiding him because their families had called him a swindler. He won their trust by siding with their complaints about their parents, then taught them his deliberately irresponsible rules for avoiding blame and effort.

• Xia Ping logged into the Cosmic Virtual Network and appeared in the Novice Village plaza, where the children had resumed their training after his pursuers stopped waiting for him.
• Ye Jiajia and the other children accused Xia Ping of swindling them and demanded their money back because their families had warned them about him.
• Xia Ping questioned whether their families were always right and invited the children to complain about rules they disliked.
• The children sympathized with Xia Ping after he told them their parents were wrong to make them eat disliked foods, wake early, and limit their activities.
• Xia Ping advised the children to blame society or the universe, run from difficult situations, and expect rewards without effort.

Xia Ping left the children after teaching them his Life Ease Law, and Ye Jiajia told her older sister about it over breakfast. Ye Mengyao decided the “native” was corrupting her sister and vowed to make him pay.

• Xia Ping praised the children for embracing his Life Ease Law and left for the Martial Arts Hall.
• Ye Jiajia and the other children decided they had only lent Xia Ping their money, then hurriedly logged out for class.
• Ye Jiajia told Ye Mengyao that she had met the native again and excitedly described his life lessons.
• Ye Mengyao became furious, fearing Xia Ping was turning Ye Jiajia into a useless deadbeat.
• Ye Mengyao ordered Ye Jiajia to go to class and vowed to make the native pay.

Ye Mengyao rallied the great families and her friends against Wu Wudi, accusing him of corrupting young people with the Life Ease Law. A friend offered her a Sealing Talisman so she could enter Novice Village and confront him herself.

• Ye Mengyao spread the news that Wu Wudi had returned, and the great families mobilized elite forces to punish him.
• Ye Mengyao's friends blamed Wu Wudi for relatives who had become shut-ins and abandoned their prospects.
• The women concluded that Wu Wudi's influence threatened families across the universe and urged Ye Mengyao to stop him.
• Ye Mengyao explained that Wu Wudi remained in Novice Village, where ordinary forces could not reach him.
• A woman offered to send Ye Mengyao a Sealing Talisman that would let her enter Novice Village, and Ye Mengyao welcomed the chance to confront Wu Wudi.

Xia Ping accepted a hidden mission to defeat the bandit chief One-Eyed Wolf, then ran into hired thugs sent to attack him. He left one thug badly injured and challenged the rest as they blocked his way.

• Xia Ping visited the Martial Arts Academy, where the village chief offered him a mission to eliminate the bandit chief One-Eyed Wolf.
• Cat Immortal urged Xia Ping to accept the hidden mission, saying it could bring valuable rewards, and Xia Ping agreed.
• As Xia Ping headed out of the Novice Village, dozens of thugs hired by major families spotted him and surrounded him.
• Xia Ping struck a giant thug with the Immovable Tathagata Palm, sending him crashing into the village wall with broken bones.
• Xia Ping challenged the remaining thugs to attack him and clear his path.

Xia Ping confronted a man in blue who attacked him with the rare Separating Fire Silkworm Net in the Martial Arts Space. Xia Ping absorbed its Separating Fire energy and began taking the net, then struck at the furious man in blue.

• The man in blue summoned the Separating Fire Silkworm Net, and onlookers expected it to defeat Xia Ping.
• Cat Immortal explained that the net was a rare treasure obtained within the virtual Martial Arts Space.
• The man in blue spread the blazing net across the sky and tried to trap Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping stopped fleeing and used a vortex of Spiral Force to draw in the net and absorb its Separating Fire energy.
• The man in blue shouted that the net belonged to him, and Xia Ping answered with a powerful punch.

Xia Ping defeated a group of cultivators in the Virtual World and claimed the Separating Fire Silkworm Net, wielding it with far greater power than its previous owner. With the path clear, he set off to find the bandit king, One-Eyed Wolf.

• Xia Ping killed the man in blue with a single punch, causing him to drop the Separating Fire Silkworm Net as he was expelled from the Virtual World.
• Xia Ping seized the net and transformed its flames into Hell Golden Crows that swept across the surrounding crowd.
• The Hell Golden Crows burned or blasted the cultivators to death, and Xia Ping praised the treasure artifact's power.
• Xia Ping left the village and headed for the place where One-Eyed Wolf was.

After Wu Wudi defeated the mercenaries and stole Huang Jie's Separating Fire Silkworm Net, the young masters learned that he might be pursuing a Novice Village mission and planned to hunt him down. They left vowing to seize his possible Saint-level martial arts and recover the treasure, though Huang Jie had little chance of getting it back.

• The mercenaries told the young masters that Wu Wudi had beaten them and caused the Virtual World to reject them, and one young master slapped a mercenary for failing.
• Huang Jie revealed that Wu Wudi had stolen his Separating Fire Silkworm Net and used it to defeat everyone.
• Huang Jie blamed Wu Wudi's strength on possible Saint-level martial arts, shocking the young masters.
• A young master recalled that Wu Wudi seemed eager to complete a Novice Village mission, prompting the group to fear he would claim its valuable rewards.
• The young masters vowed to gather treasure artifacts, capture Wu Wudi, and force him to reveal his martial arts, while Huang Jie pleaded for his stolen net to be returned.

Xia Ping took Ye Jiajia and the other children into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find the bandit leader One-Eyed Wolf, following signposts until they reached his stronghold. Meanwhile, a crowd of criminals hired to deal with Xia Ping arrived in Novice Village and waited for Wu Wudi to return.

• Ye Jiajia and the other children skipped school and persuaded Xia Ping to take them along to see the bandits.
• Xia Ping realized he did not know where One-Eyed Wolf’s lair was, but Ye Jiajia pointed out a signpost directing them onward.
• Xia Ping and the children followed signposts through the mountains for three days in the Virtual World and reached the bandit stronghold.
• A group of one or two hundred criminals arrived in Novice Village, intending to carry out the mission against Xia Ping.
• The criminals learned Wu Wudi had gone out on a mission and decided to wait for him to return, while a veiled woman watched from the edge of the crowd.

Xia Ping and the children confronted One-Eyed Wolf and his bandits at the mountain stronghold. After the children overwhelmed the bandits, One-Eyed Wolf attacked, and Xia Ping stepped in with the Immoveable Tathagata Palm.

• One-Eyed Wolf led over a hundred armored bandits out of the mountain stronghold as the children excitedly inspected and mocked them.
• The children charged the bandits and swiftly knocked nearly half of them down with their powerful strikes.
• One-Eyed Wolf attacked the children with a flame-powered palm, blasting them away but leaving them unharmed.
• Xia Ping recognized One-Eyed Wolf's peak ninth-level Grandmaster cultivation and powerful martial art as the mission's greatest obstacle.
• One-Eyed Wolf charged with flaming fists, and Xia Ping countered with the Immoveable Tathagata Palm.

Xia Ping fought One-Eyed Wolf, whose Saint-level flame techniques nearly overwhelmed him. Xia Ping countered with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and knocked the bandit chief into a mountain, but One-Eyed Wolf rose and charged again.

• One-Eyed Wolf struck Xia Ping with blazing punches, and Xia Ping realized the bandit chief wielded Saint-level martial arts and a powerful strange flame.
• One-Eyed Wolf unleashed a barrage of flame-filled fist imprints to finish Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and Spiral Force to shatter the imprints and strike One-Eyed Wolf.
• One-Eyed Wolf crashed into a mountain, spat blood, then charged at Xia Ping again.

Xia Ping refined his control of Spiral Force during his fight with One-Eyed Wolf and created the Black Vortex Ripple Fist. The attack overwhelmed One-Eyed Wolf and burned him until he vanished in a ball of white light.

• Xia Ping and One-Eyed Wolf exchanged powerful fiery attacks, turning the surrounding area into a sea of flames.
• Xia Ping realized he could infuse Spiral Force into his fiery Qi, greatly increasing the penetrating power of his blows.
• One-Eyed Wolf gathered his energy into a concentrated beam to finish Xia Ping quickly.
• Xia Ping invented the Black Vortex Ripple Fist and launched a spiraling fireball that swallowed One-Eyed Wolf's beam.
• The fireball tore through One-Eyed Wolf's Body-Protecting Qi and body, engulfed him in flames, and made him vanish in a ball of white light.

Xia Ping defeated One-Eyed Wolf and obtained the lost Saint-level Yang God Fist manual, then joined the children in searching the abandoned bandit stronghold. Cat Immortal explained that the stronghold’s treasure could be used as Gold Coins in the Martial Arts Space, leaving Xia Ping interested in earning wealth there as well.

• After One-Eyed Wolf died, Xia Ping picked up the Yang God Fist manual, and Cat Immortal explained its history and power.
• Cat Immortal reassured Xia Ping that few people would recognize the ancient technique, and Xia Ping put it away to learn it later.
• The bandits fled after seeing One-Eyed Wolf defeated, while Xia Ping let them go because his mission was complete.
• The children celebrated and searched the empty stronghold, finding a secret chamber filled with treasure after several hours.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the treasure could be exchanged for Gold Coins used to buy goods and privileges in the Martial Arts Space.

Xia Ping discovered that the bandit vault held about a million Gold Coins and used his Starry Gate account’s virtual storage to collect the treasure. He persuaded the children to train until they could leave Novice Village, promising to take them bandit hunting for richer spoils.

• Xia Ping learned from Cat Immortal that the vault contained about a million Gold Coins and that his account had a large virtual storage space.
• The children gleefully looted the vault, even tearing apart its walls to collect luminous pearls, while Xia Ping tried to claim their treasure.
• Xia Ping convinced the children to treat the treasure as startup money and promised them richer targets beyond Novice Village.
• Ye Jiajia pointed out that they could not leave Novice Village yet, so Xia Ping urged the children to reach the Purple Mansion Realm.
• The children agreed to work hard so they could leave and hunt bandits with Xia Ping.

Xia Ping spent the night at the bandits’ stronghold and used 300 million Hate Points to master the Saint-level Yang God Fist. After practicing through the night, he discovered that cultivating in the Virtual Network World also transformed his real body.

• Xia Ping collected the stronghold’s gold, silver, and jewels, then stayed there overnight with the children.
• Xia Ping spent 300 million Hate Points to learn the Yang God Fist and grasped its ability to absorb and fuse exotic flames.
• Xia Ping practiced the Yang God Fist through the night, causing his three exotic flames to begin merging and devastating the surrounding mountains.
• Xia Ping absorbed flame essence from the air and felt his body nearing a breakthrough as the technique tempered him toward a Yang God Body.
• Xia Ping realized that cultivating in the Virtual Network World was also transforming his real body.