Recaps

Xia Ping studied the Li Fire Forging Technique and learned that artifact refining required strange flames and deep knowledge of formations. He used two billion Hate Points to master all 108,000 basic formations, becoming a formation master but not a grandmaster.

• Xia Ping examined the Li Fire Forging Technique and saw how its creator used a strange flame to melt materials and inscribe formations onto artifacts.
• Xia Ping learned that the technique required both a strange flame and mastery of 108,000 basic formations, knowledge that would take ordinary cultivators millennia to acquire.
• Xia Ping asked the system for the cost of mastering the formations and exchanged two billion Hate Points.
• After an infusion lasting three days and three nights, Xia Ping mastered all 108,000 basic formations and became a formation master.
• Xia Ping understood that formations drew on patterns and forces found naturally in heaven and earth, while formation grandmasters could reshape them.

Xia Ping used the Li Fire Forging Technique to set up the Eight Extremes Spirit-Gathering Array across Giant Island. The array transformed the island into a cultivation paradise, and the chapter ended with Xia Ping explaining that it was one of the finest Spirit-Gathering Arrays.

• Xia Ping surveyed Giant Island and located the eight energy-vein nodes needed for an array.
• Xia Ping engraved runes on top-grade jade and buried the pieces at the island's eight nodes.
• Xia Ping activated the Eight Extremes Spirit-Gathering Array, drawing spiritual energy from across a five-thousand-kilometer radius into Giant Island.
• The island's martial artists collected Spirit Liquid as it rained from the sky, while plants and animals rapidly grew and changed.
• Xia Ping told Chu Rong, Jiang Yaru, Su Ji, and Yu Qiqi that his formation was the Eight Extremes Spirit-Gathering Array, one of the finest Spirit-Gathering Arrays.

Xia Ping mastered formations after setting up more than a thousand across the Cloud Sky Realm, then decided to travel into the universe to find materials for his natal magic treasure. Feng Hetang asked to accompany him, and Xia Ping agreed to leave with him in three days.

• Xia Ping worked with the World Government to establish formations across the Cloud Sky Realm, adapting each array to the local spirit veins and terrain.
• Over a month, Xia Ping built more than a thousand formations, strengthening human cities and frightening demons and Sea Demons.
• Xia Ping mastered formations and resolved to seek rare cosmic materials to forge a growing natal magic treasure.
• Feng Hetang called Xia Ping and asked to join his journey into the universe.
• Xia Ping agreed to take Feng Hetang with him and told him to pack for their departure in three days.

Xia Ping brought his companions to Crystal Star, a lawless planet ruled by the Red Scarf Bandits, hoping to obtain Crystal Fragrant Rice and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. Cat Immortal identified the seemingly busy planet as a haven for criminals and a hub for trading resources.

• Xia Ping told Jiang Yaru and the others that he planned to visit a Red Scarf Bandit den before returning to the Universe Sect.
• Xia Ping’s Star Ship made a spatial jump into an uncharted region beyond the Six Great Star Domains.
• Xia Ping spotted a crystalline planet surrounded by spacecraft and questioned whether it could really be a secret base.
• Cat Immortal scanned the region and identified the planet as Crystal Star, a lawless zone ruled by the Red Scarf Bandits.
• Cat Immortal explained that criminals and traders gathered on lawless planets beyond the reach of established powers.

Xia Ping and his companions disguised themselves as criminals and landed on Crystal Star to investigate whether it held Crystal Fragrant Rice and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. After law enforcement officers tried to charge them an inflated entry tax, Young Master Xu intervened, punished the extortionist, and welcomed them to the planet.

• Cat Immortal speculated that Crystal Star might conceal Crystal Fragrant Rice and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil despite its lawless reputation.
• Xia Ping disguised his group and their Star Ship as criminals before landing at Crystal Star's spaceport.
• Law enforcement officers demanded an entry tax of one thousand Universal Coins per person, and Feng Hetang objected that the usual fee was only one hundred.
• Young Master Xu confronted the officers and ordered the extortionist to cut off his own arm as punishment.
• Young Master Xu apologized to Xia Ping for the officers' conduct and welcomed the group to Crystal Star.

Xia Ping refused Xu Liangyin’s increasingly extravagant offers to buy Jiang Yaru and the other women, then left with them for Crystal City. Xu Liangyin revealed that he wanted the women as cultivation cauldrons and ordered his men to track and capture them.

• Xu Liangyin introduced himself as a manager of Lawless Planet and offered Xia Ping up to five hundred million Universal Coins for Jiang Yaru and the other women.
• Xia Ping refused to sell them and left with them for Crystal City after warning Xu Liangyin to control his attendant.
• Xu Liangyin told his attendants that the women had unusual physiques and were needed for his Infinite Cauldron Furnace Art.
• Xu Liangyin ordered his men to track Xia Ping’s group, kill them if possible, and keep the four women unharmed.

Xia Ping and his companions arrived in Crystal City to seek information about Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice. He deliberately asked about the Red Scarf Bandits’ secret in public to draw out someone with knowledge, and Chu Feng, the owner of Auspicious Cloud Tower, confronted him.

• Jiang Yaru, Su Ji, Chu Rong, Yu Qiqi, and Feng Hetang warned that Xu Yinliang might seek revenge, while Xia Ping said he would kill him if he returned.
• Xia Ping decided to gather information at Auspicious Cloud Tower after the Cat Immortal identified it as Crystal City’s largest intelligence organization.
• At Auspicious Cloud Tower, Xia Ping openly asked whether anyone knew where to find Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice, intending to lure out the Red Scarf Bandits or their informants.
• The suited elderly man brought Xia Ping and his group to the top floor, where Chu Feng, the tower’s owner, asked about their interest in the two items.

Xia Ping offered Chu Feng Dragon Blood in exchange for intelligence, but Chu Feng tried to frame him and seize the treasure. Xia Ping killed Chu Feng inside Auspicious Cloud Tower, leaving the conflict with its remaining members unresolved.

• Xia Ping offered Chu Feng a bottle of Dragon Blood as payment for information, and Chu Feng confirmed it was genuine.
• Chu Feng claimed the Dragon Blood had been stolen from Auspicious Cloud Tower and ordered his guards to seize Xia Ping and his companions.
• Xia Ping stabbed Chu Feng through the chest with the Spear of Hell before he could finish his order.
• Xia Ping unleashed the spear's mana, exploding Chu Feng into blood mist and reclaiming the Dragon Blood.

Xia Ping killed Chu Feng and two Auspicious Cloud Tower elders, then shattered the tower’s Eight Gates Cloud Mist Formation with his Spear of Hell. He left the tower’s remaining forces devastated, with only a handful of cultivators surviving the backlash.

• Xia Ping killed Chu Feng with a single thrust of the Spear of Hell inside Auspicious Cloud Tower.
• Two early-stage Treasure Refining Realm elders attacked Xia Ping, and he pierced both of them through and killed them.
• Auspicious Cloud Tower’s guards activated the Eight Gates Cloud Mist Formation and trapped Xia Ping in its spreading fog.
• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon to pierce and shatter the formation.
• The formation backlash killed the presiding elder and most of the cultivators powering it, leaving only a handful of survivors.

Xia Ping destroyed Auspicious Cloud Tower, killing its owner and several elders, and claimed its treasures with Jiang Yaru and the others. Yan Yong, a Crystal City steward, arrived and attacked Xia Ping after declaring his actions a capital crime.

• Xia Ping’s spear shattered Auspicious Cloud Tower’s formation, leaving the tower in ruins and its people dead or wounded.
• Jiang Yaru, Su Ji, and the others found and claimed more than a hundred treasure chests from the ruins.
• Yan Yong arrived and accused Xia Ping of violating Crystal City’s rules.
• Xia Ping said Auspicious Cloud Tower had tried to rob him during a trade.
• Yan Yong drew his golden greatsaber and launched a killing strike at Xia Ping.

Xia Ping overwhelmed Yan Yong with his Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon and confronted the Nine Great Stewards after they surrounded him. He demanded an apology and compensation, then prepared to fight them as Wu Taidou.

• Xia Ping blasted Yan Yong through several skyscrapers with his spear, leaving Yan Yong injured and stunned.
• Xia Ping taunted Yan Yong and charged to kill him, prompting Yan Yong to call for help.
• The Nine Great Stewards of Crystal City arrived and surrounded Xia Ping, including Xu Liangyin, who recognized him from the harbor.
• Xia Ping demanded that the stewards kneel and compensate him, while they angrily rejected his demands.
• Xia Ping identified himself as Wu Taidou and threatened to beat several stewards to death.

The nine chief stewards recognized Xia Ping as a dangerous opponent and activated Crystal City's Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array to kill him. Xia Ping examined the formation and realized the entire city had been refined into a single magical treasure, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Yan Yong warned the other chief stewards that Xia Ping's strength made him dangerous, but they decided to fight together to protect Crystal City.
• Xu Liangyin proposed activating the Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array, and the other chief stewards agreed.
• The nine chief stewards activated the citywide array, summoning Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise phantoms that immobilized people throughout Crystal City.
• Xia Ping sensed that the formation covered the city and discovered that its buildings and underground array foundations had been combined into a single magical treasure.

Xia Ping confronted the nine chief stewards after they activated the Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array, then overwhelmed the white-robed steward despite the array’s power. He killed the steward with a lightning-infused punch, leaving the remaining stewards and Crystal City’s soldiers stunned.

• Crystal City’s soldiers assumed the array had doomed Xia Ping and threatened Ya Ru and the others.
• The white-robed chief steward demanded that Xia Ping surrender, but Xia Ping used Kunpeng Step to appear behind him and attack with the Spear of Hell.
• The white-robed steward used Thunder-Rushing Hand, strengthened by the Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array, but Xia Ping’s spear tore through his lightning and absorbed its power.
• Xia Ping struck with Lightning Fist, and the white-robed steward pleaded for help as the other stewards realized he was in mortal danger.
• Xia Ping’s punch pierced the steward’s chest, and the lightning inside him made him swell and explode into powder.

Xia Ping withstood the eight chief stewards’ attacks with his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, then revealed his Star Body and counterattacked. He crushed five stewards with gravity and a single punch as the battle continued amid the ruins.

• The eight chief stewards unleashed their divine abilities and spirit artifacts against Xia Ping, but his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art absorbed or diverted their attacks.
• Yan Yong and the other stewards recognized that Xia Ping had formed a Star Body and realized they were outmatched despite their higher cultivation.
• Xia Ping shattered one steward’s Yin-Baleful White Bone Claw with a punch and sent him flying through high-rises.
• Five stewards surrounded Xia Ping, but he used the Star-Drawing Technique to multiply gravity and send them crashing into the ground.
• Xia Ping struck the five stewards with one punch, shattered their Body-Protecting Qi, and devastated the surrounding buildings.

Xia Ping defeated the remaining Crystal City chief stewards, but they tried to use Jiang Yaru and his other companions as hostages. Golden Slime slaughtered the soldiers surrounding them, leaving the battle unresolved as the surviving stewards stared in terror.

• Xu Liangyin and another chief steward attacked Xia Ping while he was recovering, but Xia Ping kicked Xu Liangyin away and killed the other steward with a punch.
• Onlookers discussed Xia Ping's Star Body as he charged toward the remaining chief stewards.
• Yan Yong stopped Xia Ping by revealing that more than ten thousand soldiers had surrounded Jiang Yaru and his companions.
• The chief stewards ordered the soldiers to kill Xia Ping's companions and tried to hold him back.
• Xia Ping ordered Little Gold to attack, and Golden Slime's blades slaughtered the soldiers surrounding Jiang Yaru and the others.

Xia Ping broke the stewards’ full-powered Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array with the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon, killing three stewards and badly injuring five. As he moved to finish them off, Crystal City’s Lord Jiang Jun arrived and confronted him.

• Xu Liangyin and the other stewards gathered Crystal City’s array power into a black dragon made of Killing Intent and sent it at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon, whose hellish power consumed the Killing Intent and pierced through the black dragon.
• Xia Ping’s strike damaged Crystal City’s arrays and buildings, causing three stewards to explode from the backlash and sending the other five flying, badly injured.
• Xia Ping moved to kill the remaining stewards, but a powerful figure descended and pressed the city’s cultivators to the ground.
• Xia Ping sensed the newcomer’s immense soul force, and the cultivators identified him as Crystal City’s Lord, Jiang Jun.

Jiang Jun arrived in Crystal City and confronted Xia Ping after seeing the destruction and hearing the stewards accuse him. Jiang Jun attacked with the Flying Dragon Nine Forms Sword Art, but Xia Ping dodged the spirit-fire-infused strike.

• Jiang Jun appeared just as Xu Liangyin and the other stewards were close to being wiped out.
• Jiang Jun surveyed the ruined city and dead soldiers, while Xu Liangyin and the other stewards blamed Xia Ping for the destruction.
• Jiang Jun demanded that Xia Ping either kill himself or be killed, and Xia Ping refused to explain himself and challenged him to fight.
• Jiang Jun drew his sword and unleashed the Flying Dragon Nine Forms Sword Art, sending nine sword beams at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Kunpeng Step to evade the attack, which cut through several distant skyscrapers.

Xia Ping summoned his Saint-Grade Spaceship, the Star Ship, and used it to defeat Jiang Jun, who had attacked him with a vast sword array. The Star Ship rammed Jiang Jun out of Crystal City, killing him and leaving the others to witness the city lord’s death.

• Jiang Jun unleashed his swordsmanship against Xia Ping and the others, while Yan Yong believed Xia Ping was doomed.
• Xia Ping summoned the Star Ship above Crystal City despite the flight-ban array.
• Jiang Jun’s Sword Qi and other attacks failed to damage the Star Ship.
• Xia Ping ordered the Star Ship to ram Jiang Jun, who tried to flee.
• The Star Ship struck Jiang Jun and sent him crashing through buildings and out of Crystal City, where he died.

Xia Ping killed Jiang Jun and the other stewards, then forced Xu Liangyin to reveal what he knew about the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice. He enslaved Xu Liangyin with the Soul Seal and gained access to the man’s thoughts and memories.

• Xia Ping rammed Jiang Jun to death with his flying ship, then used Kunpeng Step and his fists to kill the fleeing stewards, leaving Xu Liangyin barely alive.
• Xu Liangyin offered his treasures for his life, and Xia Ping demanded to know where the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice were hidden.
• Xu Liangyin claimed that only he knew the secret location on Crystal Star and tried to bargain for his survival.
• Xia Ping cast the Soul Seal into Xu Liangyin’s soul, overpowering and brainwashing him into a loyal servant.
• Xia Ping sensed that he could read Xu Liangyin’s thoughts and memories, including his martial arts experience.

After killing Xu Liangyin and looting Crystal City, Xia Ping headed for the Red Scarf Bandits' secret base where Crystal Fragrant Rice was grown. The bandits received word of Crystal City's fall too late, and Xia Ping's spaceship began tearing apart their heavily defended base.

• Xia Ping killed Xu Liangyin, sent Jiang Yaru and the others back to the Star Ship, and looted Crystal City and Auspicious Cloud Tower.
• Xia Ping headed north toward the Red Scarf Bandits' base, while surviving bandits in Crystal City reported the deaths of the city lord and the nine chief stewards to headquarters.
• Red Scarf Bandit soldiers at the northern base chatted about its long, peaceful history until one spotted a spaceship appearing above them.
• The soldiers sounded the alarm, and a captain tried to reassure them while Wang Wu warned that the invasion was dangerous.
• Xia Ping's spaceship smashed through the base's formations and defenses, leaving the captain to urge the soldiers to trust the True Fire Realm commander and his deputies.

A spaceship destroyed the Red Scarf Bandits’ base defenses and killed the base commander and deputy base commanders. The surviving soldiers hid until the ship left, after which the captain ordered them to clean up.

• Wang Wu predicted the base commander would be killed, and a spaceship promptly rammed the True Fire Realm commander into a mountain, killing him.
• The spaceship killed several deputy base commanders, leaving the Red Scarf Bandit soldiers terrified and their base defenseless.
• The captain slapped Wang Wu for continuing to voice grim predictions and ordered him to stay quiet.
• When the spaceship headed for the Crystal Fragrant Rice fields, the captain and his soldiers decided to hide rather than fight.
• After an hour, the spaceship departed, and the captain ordered the soldiers to move out and clean up the aftermath.

The Red Scarf Bandits discovered that Wu Taidou had stripped Crystal Star of its Crystal Fragrant Rice, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and nearly every valuable in the base. Enraged by the loss and the deaths of Jiang Jun and other commanders, the chief ordered a massive fleet to pursue Wu Taidou.

• Red Scarf Bandit soldiers found the Crystal Fragrant Rice fields emptied and the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil dug up.
• The soldiers discovered that Wu Taidou had looted the base’s treasury, kitchen, and other valuables, leaving some soldiers without their clothes.
• The Red Scarf Bandits headquarters learned that Jiang Jun and the other commanders had been killed during Wu Taidou’s raid.
• The elders vowed to investigate Wu Taidou and make him repay the stolen treasures tenfold.
• The Red Scarf Bandit chief sent more than a hundred thousand warships toward Crystal Star to hunt Wu Taidou.

After escaping Crystal Star, Xia Ping returned to the Mountain River Bead and learned from Green Ox how to use Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to restore its space. The soil spread rapidly and enriched the realm, while Xia Ping felt his mana nearing a breakthrough.

• Xia Ping entered the Mountain River Bead and found its plants thriving and its Dragon Savage Rabbit population grown to thirty million.
• Green Ox recognized Xia Ping's Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and explained that it could multiply by absorbing chaotic energy.
• Green Ox opened a formation to draw chaotic currents, causing the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to grow into a mountain.
• Green Ox spread the soil across the realm, and by the next day it had covered ten thousand kilometers and enriched the space with spirit energy.
• Xia Ping sensed the Mountain River Bead recovering and felt his mana nearing a breakthrough.

Xia Ping broke through to the mid-stage of the Treasure Refining Realm on a secluded planet, where his body and Hell Golden Crow bloodline grew much stronger. He awakened a new Hell Golden Crow divine ability, while the arrays hiding his breakthrough began to strain under the heat.

• Xia Ping refused to break through in space because he expected the heavenly tribulation to be more dangerous there, so Cat Immortal took him to a nearby habitable planet.
• Xia Ping found a cave at the convergence of spiritual ley lines and set up a Spirit Gathering Array and illusion arrays before cultivating in seclusion.
• Xia Ping advanced to the mid-stage of the Treasure Refining Realm as his Purple Mansion expanded and his mana and divine sense grew stronger.
• Arrays formed within Xia Ping's body, refining his physique and strengthening his Star Body, Hell Golden Crow Body, Azure Emperor Body, and other special constitutions.
• Xia Ping's Hell Golden Crow Cells increased to one hundred thousand, and their heat began overwhelming the arrays concealing him.
• Xia Ping awakened a divine ability inherited from his Hell Golden Crow bloodline.

After awakening the offensive Hell Golden Crow Claw, Xia Ping tested its devastating power and felt his bloodline and physical strength grow denser. A Thirty-Six-Fold Lightning Tribulation formed over him, and the chapter ended as countless bolts struck.

• Xia Ping awakened Hell Golden Crow Claw and used it to tear apart and incinerate a mountain, then flatten another peak.
• Xia Ping sensed that awakening one hundred thousand Hell Golden Crow Cells had greatly strengthened his bloodline and body.
• A Thirty-Six-Fold Lightning Tribulation gathered over Xia Ping, startling Green Ox and the people aboard the Star Ship.
• Cat Immortal dismissed Green Ox's concern, while Su Ji believed Xia Ping would be fine and Yu Qiqi joked that Heaven was punishing him.
• The tribulation clouds reached their limit, and countless bolts of lightning struck Xia Ping as the disturbance drew nearby cultivators' attention.