Recaps

Xia Ping led Qingyang City's army in taking Formless Mountain and plundered its treasures, including Hell Cold Stone, Nether soil, and a manual of illusion arts. After stripping the mountain bare, he inspected the black hole leading to hell, where demons and Nether Ghosts remained trapped by the passage's limits.

• Xia Ping froze Formless Mountain and its Nether Ghost guards, then Qingyang City soldiers killed the survivors and searched the mountain.
• Xia Ping learned that the Formless Ghost King's black jade bed was Hell Cold Stone and decided to use it to strengthen his Nine Heavens Mysterious Nether Force.
• Green Ox urged Xia Ping to gather the mountain's Nether soil, which could help the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil expand through the Mountain River Bead's space.
• Xia Ping collected all the Nether soil and found the True Explanation of Illusion Arts among the plundered treasures.
• Xia Ping searched Formless Mountain until he found nothing else, then examined the black hole to hell and learned that powerful demons and Nether Ghosts could not pass through it.

Xia Ping abandoned his plan to enter Hell through Formless Mountain after discovering its entrance was guarded, then returned to Qingyang City and consolidated his strength. He learned that the Formless Mask could perfectly disguise him as any creature and examined the True Explanation of Illusion Arts, while leaving the search for a safer entrance to Hell unresolved.

• Xia Ping sensed demons and Nether Ghosts guarding the Formless Mountain passage and decided not to enter Hell there.
• Gu Bo told Xia Ping that small, temporary black holes could also lead to Hell, and Xia Ping left Formless Mountain to return to Qingyang City.
• After several days of cultivation, Xia Ping stabilized his power, awakened three million Hell Golden Crow Cells, and gained one billion Hate Points.
• Xia Ping refined the Formless Mask and discovered it could transform him into creatures so convincingly that even a Saint could not detect the disguise.
• Xia Ping tested the mask by transforming into animals and a woman, then changed back after joking about using it to enter women's bathhouses.
• Xia Ping examined the True Explanation of Illusion Arts, a manual found by Formless Ghost King that taught the creation of realistic illusory worlds.

Xia Ping cultivated the True Explanation of Illusion Arts to minor success and set out to test it on a group of Nether Ghosts near Qingyang City. While he infiltrated their camp, the Hungry Ghost King warned his followers that the city was protected by a dangerous formation and might be more formidable than it appeared.

• Xia Ping learned that convincing illusion arts depended on abundant sensory details and drew on his powerful divine sense to cultivate them.
• After a month in seclusion, Xia Ping reached the minor success stage in the True Explanation of Illusion Arts.
• A soldier reported that three hundred Nether Ghosts, including Ghost King-level beings, had camped several hundred li from Qingyang City.
• Xia Ping transformed into a kunpeng, then used the Formless Mask to infiltrate the Nether Ghosts' valley as a mosquito and an ant.
• The Hungry Ghost King told his followers that humans had killed the Formless Ghost King and that Qingyang City was protected by a powerful formation.

Xia Ping tested his illusion arts on the Nether Ghosts gathering to attack Qingyang City. The Hungry Ghost King died believing that phantoms were real, and Xia Ping absorbed the ghosts’ remaining soul energy.

• The Hungry Ghost King decided to launch a surprise attack on Qingyang City and kill its humans if they seemed weak.
• Xia Ping, hidden in the sand, created an illusion of the Formless Ghost King and three other devil kings confronting the Hungry Ghost King and its forces.
• The Hungry Ghost King believed the apparitions and fought them after learning they supposedly served the lord of Qingyang City.
• After two hours of battling illusions, the exhausted Hungry Ghost King self-destructed, wiping out the surrounding Nether Ghosts and leveling the valley.
• Xia Ping absorbed the soul energy left by the dead Nether Ghosts and marveled at the strength of his illusion arts.

Xia Ping prepared to leave Qingyang City and expanded it into a self-sufficient human stronghold protected by three powerful arrays. He left Gu Bo in charge as acting City Lord, with limited authority over the defenses.

• Xia Ping told Gu Bo and the other leaders that he would leave Qingyang City after their search for a black hole leading to hell failed.
• Xia Ping claimed the surrounding territory and built a vast city network with walls, satellite cities, towns, farmland, factories, and housing.
• Xia Ping established the Earth-Mystic Tortoise Array to protect the region and the Abyssal Illusion Array to trap powerful intruders.
• Xia Ping set up the Pure Yang Evil-Exorcising Array to detect and burn Nether Ghosts, including Ghost King-level ones.
• Xia Ping gave Gu Bo second-tier authorization to the array rune keys and appointed him acting City Lord.

Xia Ping returned to the Universe Sect after leaving the secret realm, where his Golden Core breakthrough astonished the North Nether Saint. Elder Yu Xiujun assigned him a ten-year mission as governor of the chaotic frontier planet Borderhead Planet.

• Xia Ping left the secret realm, whose growing Qingyang City became a renowned human Holy City after attracting refugees and defeating attacking Ghost Kings and demons.
• Cat Immortal confirmed that Xia Ping's Star Ship was in the Southern Universe, and Xia Ping returned to Universe Planet more than ten days later.
• The North Nether Saint sensed Xia Ping's Golden Core Realm cultivation and notified the Universe Sect elders.
• Yu Xiujun contacted Xia Ping and explained that Golden Core disciples had to leave their masters and undertake sect missions.
• Yu Xiujun assigned Xia Ping to govern Borderhead Planet for ten years, warning that local factions had divided its power despite its nominal allegiance to the Universe Sect.

Elder Yu Xiujun explained that Xia Ping had to make the lawless Borderhead Planet submit to the Universe Sect without support, while concealing his identity as Yang Budong. Xia Ping learned that the Medlin Family and the Red Scarf Bandits dominated the planet’s underworld and prepared to investigate before departing.

• Yu Xiujun told Xia Ping that he had to become the ruler of Borderhead Planet and bring its factions under the Universe Sect’s control without help or resources.
• Yu Xiujun identified the Medlin Family as the planet’s strongest faction and said it was suspected of working with the Red Scarf Bandits.
• Xia Ping recalled that the Red Scarf Bandits knew the Cloud Sky Realm’s location and considered wiping them out to protect it.
• Yu Xiujun warned Xia Ping that attacking the Red Scarf Bandits could draw in powerful families and Western Universe forces, but said the trial carried no punishment if it failed.
• Yu Xiujun gave Xia Ping the alias Yang Budong and ordered him to leave for Borderhead Planet in three days.
• Xia Ping asked Cat Immortal to gather intelligence on Borderhead Planet before their departure.

Universe Sect elders discussed Xia Ping’s rapid cultivation and agreed that his Borderhead Planet mission would give him valuable experience. On Borderhead Planet, Bronte gathered underworld family leaders to decide how to respond to the arriving true disciple, and chose cooperation as his first approach, with death as the alternative.

• Yu Xiujun and the elders praised Xia Ping’s rapid advancement and his mastery of the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Hand.
• The elders worried about Xia Ping’s safety on Borderhead Planet, but Yu Xiujun explained that the North Nether Saint wanted him to gain experience and had likely equipped him with treasures.
• Bronte assembled the leaders of Borderhead Planet’s underworld families and told them that a Universe Sect Golden Core true disciple intended to rule the planet.
• The family leaders argued over whether to kill the true disciple or avoid provoking the Universe Sect.
• Bronte proposed cooperating with the true disciple and using his influence to infiltrate the Universe Sect; he vowed to kill him if he refused.

Xia Ping arrived at Borderhead Planet under the alias Yang Budong to take up the post of planetary governor and found the Universe Sect’s government office in disrepair. After learning that local underworld families controlled the planet, he vowed to challenge them, while Duan Chengrui warned him about the powerful Medlin Family.

• Xia Ping traveled to Borderhead Planet after learning that Su Ji, Yu Qiqi, Jiang Yaru, and Chu Rong were away on a sect mission.
• Duan Chengrui contacted Xia Ping as he arrived and invited him to the Universe Sect base, addressing him as Junior Brother Yang Budong.
• Xia Ping saw that the government office was dilapidated and heard Duan Chengrui explain that local underworld families controlled most of the planet’s taxes and public security.
• Xia Ping berated Duan Chengrui for letting the underworld take control and declared that he would restore the Universe Sect’s authority.
• Duan Chengrui warned Xia Ping that the Medlin Family and its peak Golden Core leader, Bronte, made open confrontation dangerous.

Xia Ping ordered Duan Chengrui to summon Borderhead Planet’s major leaders to a banquet and threatened the Golden Dragon Hotel with closure if it demanded payment. After Duan reported Xia Ping’s insults and demands to Bronte and the other leaders, they agreed to attend the banquet while plotting to deal with him later.

• Xia Ping told Duan Chengrui to invite every major force to a banquet and warned him to ensure the Golden Dragon Hotel provided it for free.
• Duan Chengrui went to the Golden Dragon Hotel, where Bronte and other force leaders had gathered, and described his meeting with Xia Ping.
• Bronte and the leaders watched surveillance footage of Xia Ping and angrily condemned his insults and threats.
• Duan Chengrui sided with Bronte, explaining that Xia Ping threatened his position and the resources he gained through the planet’s underworld forces.
• Duan Chengrui warned that killing Xia Ping immediately could provoke the Universe Sect, so the leaders agreed to tolerate him temporarily and attend the banquet.

Xia Ping, posing as Yang Budong, announced his plan to control Borderhead Planet's criminal factions and demand ninety percent of their profits. Giant Cook challenged him and launched a powerful punch, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Prominent figures gathered at the Golden Dragon Hotel to meet the newly appointed governor, Yang Budong, as the Medlin Family hosted the banquet.
• Xia Ping entered with his group and told the assembled factions he intended to suppress rebellious elements and protect Universe Sect territory.
• Xia Ping offered to overlook past crimes but demanded that the factions surrender ninety percent of their profits from smuggling, drug trafficking, and slave trading.
• Giant Cook identified himself as the man who had cursed Xia Ping, challenged his strength, and attacked with a devastating punch.

Xia Ping killed Cook and the Cook Gang elites who tried to attack him, demonstrating overwhelming strength to the gathered gang leaders. Bronte then submitted the Medlin Family to Xia Ping’s demand for ninety percent of its profits.

• Xia Ping killed Cook with a light tap after neutralizing his punch.
• Cook’s sworn brothers charged Xia Ping with plasma bombs, but he burned them to ashes with Sun Essence flames.
• The assembled gang leaders judged Xia Ping to possess power beyond ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivators and stayed silent when he invited objections.
• Bronte declared that the Medlin Family had no objections and would hand over ninety percent of its profits starting the next day.

After the banquet, Bronte explained that the Medlin Family had agreed to Yang Budong’s demands only to buy time and deceive him with falsified accounts. He planned to have Red Scarf Bandits kill Yang Budong and take the blame, while Duan Chengrui watched Yang’s movements.

• Bronte told the underworld leaders to endure Yang Budong because he represented the Universe Sect and was too dangerous to confront openly.
• Bronte instructed the leaders to falsify their account books and report only a fraction of their profits to Yang Budong.
• Bronte assured the leaders that the Medlin Family had a secret plan to kill Yang Budong, though he withheld its details from them.
• After the meeting, Bronte told Duan Chengrui that Red Scarf Bandit officers would come to Borderhead Planet for an important transaction and help ambush Yang Budong.
• Bronte ordered Duan Chengrui to watch Yang Budong and avoid acting rashly until the plan was ready.

Xia Ping targeted the Fite Family for secretly trafficking slaves, intending to destroy the family and draw out its backers. At the family’s base, its members struggled to contain a Taotie Clan girl who had consumed much of their food and even their spacecraft.

• Xia Ping received 100 million Hate Points and decided to drive Borderhead Planet’s forces into desperation while pursuing the Red Scarf Bandits.
• Xia Ping learned that the Fite Family traded slaves and ignored Duan Chengrui’s warnings about the powerful family’s connections.
• Xia Ping grabbed Duan Chengrui and set out to attack the Fite Family’s base before Duan could alert them.
• Fite Family members complained that Slave Girl Number Sixty-Six had eaten their food and spacecraft, then learned she was a Taotie Clan member who had attached herself to them for food.

Xia Ping and Duan Chengrui arrived at the Fite Family base, where Xia Ping ordered an inspection for slave trafficking. The Fite Family refused and opened fire, leaving Duan Chengrui fearing they would both be killed.

• A Taotie Clan girl devoured several tons of food in her cell, frightened the neighboring slave girls, and fell asleep when she could not get more.
• Xia Ping and Duan Chengrui appeared outside the Fite Family base, and Xia Ping declared that he would destroy the slave-trading operation.
• The Fite Family’s guards recognized Yang Budong and activated the base’s weapons against him and Duan Chengrui.
• Xia Ping ordered the Fite Family to open its gates for an inspection and warned that anyone who resisted would be killed.
• The Fite Family’s leaders ordered all eighteen hundred Laser Cannons to fire, sending tens of thousands of beams toward Xia Ping and Duan Chengrui.
• Duan Chengrui panicked as the laser beams formed a deadly net around them.

Xia Ping destroyed the Fite Family base and killed its elite members after they attacked him, then entered the underground slave prison. As he found the imprisoned girls, a little girl clung to his leg and asked him to adopt her.

• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Claw to shatter the Fite Family base and its weapons systems.
• The surviving Fite Family elites tried to negotiate with Xia Ping, but he killed them when they threatened him.
• Xia Ping collected the dead elites’ Space Rings and discovered the base’s underground slave prison remained intact.
• Xia Ping broke into the underground prison, where the Fite Family members surrendered and told him they held top-grade slaves there.
• A little girl ran up to Xia Ping, clung to his leg, and asked him to adopt her.

The Taotie Clan girl Tan Menglu tricked Xia Ping into accepting her as his master, forming an ancient contract that granted him the Devouring Ability. Xia Ping tested the power and realized that raising his new companion could bankrupt him.

• The Fite Family recognized Tan Menglu and secretly celebrated her leaving after she had consumed much of their wealth.
• Tan Menglu spotted Xia Ping’s enormous treasure light and asked him to adopt her, eager to stay close to someone she believed was rich.
• Before Xia Ping could answer, Tan Menglu bit his finger and used an ancient oath to contract herself to him.
• The contract linked their souls and gave Xia Ping a black talisman containing the Taotie Clan’s Devouring Ability.
• Xia Ping tested the ability by swallowing the earth and stones in a large crater, converting what he devoured into energy.
• Xia Ping realized that keeping Tan Menglu could cost him a fortune because Taotie were capable of eating their owners into poverty.

Xia Ping accepted Tan Menglu as his contracted companion and freed the enslaved girls, then looted the Fite Family’s underground base. He left the base completely dismantled, while the Fite Family and rescued girls watched in shock.

• Tan Menglu asked Xia Ping to take her to eat after their contract bound them together.
• Xia Ping broke open the cages and freed the enslaved girls, then claimed them as his slaves.
• Tan Menglu revealed the hidden treasures in the base, and Xia Ping knocked out the Fite Family members who tried to stop him.
• Xia Ping and Tan Menglu collected the base’s treasures and dismantled the entire structure for its materials.
• Duan Chengrui and the freed girls watched in disbelief as Xia Ping left nothing behind.

The Fite Family patriarch learned that Yang Budong had killed his people and stripped their base bare, then appealed to Bronte for help. Bronte refused to let the Fite Family retaliate while a larger plan was underway, leaving the patriarch resentful but afraid to act.

• The Fite Family patriarch arrived at the ruined base and learned that Yang Budong had killed its defenders and taken the entire base and its treasures.
• The Fite Family patriarch and his vice patriarch decided to seek help from the Medlin Family and demanded Yang Budong's death.
• At the Medlin Family grounds, the Fite Family patriarch told Bronte that Yang Budong had looted the base, taken a Taotie Clan slave girl, and detained Fite Family members who came to protest.
• Bronte told the Fite Family patriarch to halt the slave trade and endure, warning that the Fite Family could not defeat Yang Budong and might be wiped out if it retaliated.
• The Fite Family patriarch reluctantly accepted that he could not act against Yang Budong yet, but swore to kill him if an opportunity arose.

Xia Ping brought fifty slave girls into the Mountain River Bead space and told them they would manage its medicinal fields and spirit grain under Green Ox. He then admired the expanding Crystal Fragrant Rice fields, where Tan Menglu reveled in the abundant food.

• Xia Ping explained that the fifty slave girls would work as laborers tending the Mountain River Bead space rather than serve as maidservants.
• Xia Ping teased and touched a Rabbit-Ear Race girl, an Angel Race girl, and an Arhat Race girl, drawing their embarrassed protests.
• Xia Ping handed the girls over to Green Ox, who led them away to their new home and duties.
• Tan Menglu rolled among the Crystal Fragrant Rice and celebrated the vast supply of food.
• Xia Ping observed that the fields covered ten million square kilometers and produced four billion tons of rice.

Tan Menglu’s enormous appetite supplied Xia Ping with refined energy through their contract, advancing him to the peak of the early Golden Core Realm. While Xia Ping cultivated inside the residence, his enemies planned to lure Tan Menglu outside and use her to draw him into an ambush.

• Tan Menglu ate ten tons of Crystal Fragrant Rice and lay stuffed, while Xia Ping calculated that he could keep up with her appetite.
• Energy refined by Tan Menglu flowed through the contract to Xia Ping, raising his cultivation to the peak of the early Golden Core Realm and bringing him close to a breakthrough.
• Xia Ping spent more than ten days cultivating inside the residence as the Medlin Family and their allies waited outside with the Red Scarf Bandits’ officers.
• The group rejected forcing their way into the Universe Sect outpost and decided to lure Xia Ping out by targeting Tan Menglu.
• The conspirators assigned Duan Chengrui to lure Tan Menglu away with food and prepared to ambush Xia Ping.

Xia Ping used Tan Menglu’s appetite to lure Duan Chengrui into taking her to a restaurant, where he abandoned her with the bill. After the police arrested her for dining and dashing, Xia Ping went to the station, while his enemies waited for him to leave his residence and enter their trap.

• Xia Ping sensed that the Medlin Family and other underworld families planned to ambush him, and told Tan Menglu to accept an invitation to eat out.
• Duan Chengrui took Tan Menglu to a restaurant, where she ordered enormous quantities of food and ate until she was about thirty percent full.
• Duan Chengrui slipped away, and the restaurant owner had Tan Menglu arrested when she could not pay the bill.
• Xia Ping went to the police station after learning Tan Menglu had been detained, and the people monitoring him celebrated that he had left his residence.
• Xia Ping challenged the police for arresting Tan Menglu, accusing them of violating justice, law, and human rights.

Xia Ping left the police station after forcing the officers to apologize to Tan Menglu, only to find Bronte and the underworld families waiting to ambush him. Surrounded by a grand formation, he declared that he would destroy them and launched a devastating punch.

• Xia Ping made the police apologize to Tan Menglu for arresting her after she dined and dashed.
• Xia Ping and Tan Menglu left the police station and found the streets deserted.
• Bronte, the patriarchs of the six other underworld families, and several Golden Core True Persons emerged to confront Xia Ping.
• The underworld leaders revealed that they had set up the Heavenly Net Grand Formation to trap and kill Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping dismissed their threat, said he intended to wipe them out, and struck with a punch that shook the area.
• Bronte shouted for his allies to form the formation.

Xia Ping used the Taotie Clan’s Devouring Ability to destroy the Sevenfold Seven Slaughter Formation that Bronte and the other Golden Core True Persons had set against him. He then attacked the formation’s operators, killing one Golden Core True Person with a single punch.

• Bronte and the other martial artists activated the Sevenfold Seven Slaughter Formation to kill Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping summoned a Taotie and used its Devouring Ability to swallow the formation’s killing intent and shatter its foundations.
• The formation’s operators suffered backlash, and the gathered cultivators recognized Xia Ping’s Devouring Ability and feared his increased strength.
• Xia Ping stepped forward and punched a Golden Core True Person, exploding his body and leaving only his Golden Core behind.

Xia Ping faced a coordinated assault from Bronte, the Light Family patriarch, and seven Red Scarf Bandit officers after they trapped him in a powerful sword formation. He unleashed the Hell Furnace, but the chapter ended before the attackers’ strikes were resolved.

• Bronte urged the Red Scarf Bandits to attack Xia Ping after seeing him kill a Golden Core cultivator.
• Seven Red Scarf Bandit officers formed the Seven-Heart Locking Sword Formation and sealed Xia Ping inside its Sword Qi chains.
• Bronte attacked Xia Ping with the Seven Severances Seven Despairs Heartbreak Palm while he was trapped.
• The Light Family patriarch joined the attack with his Seven Poison Finger divine ability.
• Xia Ping circulated the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and summoned the Hell Furnace.