Recaps

Xia Ping entered the intermediate city Panwu City after learning its trial tower held the inheritance of Saint Panwu and was the most difficult in the universe. He arrived at the tower, where other geniuses’ failures showed how formidable its trials were, and prepared to challenge it.

• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that Panwu City’s trial tower contained Saint Panwu’s inheritance and that no one had passed its fifth floor.
• Xia Ping chose Panwu City and arrived in its vast virtual landscape, where he discovered that cultivation and projected spirit artifacts worked much like they did in reality.
• Xia Ping went to the Panwu Trial Tower and saw a Starlight Clan genius thrown out after failing its first floor.
• Cultivators nearby discussed how even geniuses who had cleared higher floors in other cities had failed to pass Panwu’s fourth floor.
• Some would-be challengers abandoned their plans after hearing about the tower’s difficulty and the risk of wasting their limited attempts.

Xia Ping entered the Panwu Trial Tower under the false name Wu Wudi. The crowd recognized the wanted criminal and alerted the Western Universe races and Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, who began gathering in Panwu City to capture him.

• After the Starlight Clan genius failed the first floor, nearby challengers decided the tower was too difficult and abandoned their attempts.
• Xia Ping approached the tower and entered under the false name Wu Wudi, spending one trial attempt.
• The crowd recognized Wu Wudi as the Western Universe's wanted criminal and recalled the crimes attributed to him.
• Lifeforms from the Western Universe notified their elders, while a Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciple alerted the sect.
• The elders and their forces mobilized toward Panwu City as the crowd gathered to watch what would happen.

Xia Ping passed the Panwu Trial Tower’s first floor by enduring powerful mental shockwaves, then chose to begin the second trial immediately. Outside, a huge crowd of enemies gathered to capture or kill him, but their confidence faltered when the tower showed that he had cleared the first floor.

• Xia Ping withstood the first floor’s escalating mental attacks, which the World Tree blocked while refining his spiritual power.
• After three minutes, Xia Ping passed the first-floor trial and immediately chose to begin the second floor without resting.
• Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciples, Angel Race experts, Elephant Race experts, and Mysterious Heaven Sect members gathered outside to claim Xia Ping’s life.
• The crowd laughed at the thought that Xia Ping would fail the first floor, then saw the second floor light up and realized he had passed.
• The Starlight Clan genius recognized how impressive Xia Ping’s success was, while the gathered factions insisted he would fail the harder second trial and watched for a chance to seize him.

Xia Ping passed the Trial Tower’s second-floor sword trial by absorbing and reflecting the Sword Qi, then was sent straight to the third floor. There, he faced a massive beast tide and unleashed the Hell Golden Crow Body as the beasts charged.

• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to absorb the second floor’s Sword Qi, which tempered his body and raised his mana to Golden Core completion.
• Xia Ping reflected the Sword Qi with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, shattering all four ancient sword formations and passing the second-floor trial.
• The Trial Tower transported Xia Ping to the third floor, where he discovered a beast tide of at least a million ferocious beasts charging across the grassland.
• Xia Ping activated the Hell Golden Crow Body and filled the area with dark golden flames, incinerating the approaching beasts.

Xia Ping passed the third floor of the Trial Tower after a three-hour battle and entered the fourth-floor trial, where he had to survive an Abyssal battlefield for an hour. As he hid from the demons with an illusion technique, the Western Universe geniuses became alarmed by his talent and resolved to kill him.

• Xia Ping defeated tens of millions of vicious beasts on the third floor, completing the trial and bringing his soul and body into alignment.
• Xia Ping restored himself during the one-hour break, then was teleported to the fourth-floor Trial Space.
• The Trial Tower revealed that Xia Ping had to survive for an hour on a Demon Battlefield from Saint Panwu's memories, where Abyssal demons and Demon Saints threatened him.
• Xia Ping used the True Explanation of Illusion Arts to disguise himself as a rock and evade the searching Abyssal demons.
• The Western Universe geniuses learned that Xia Ping had reached the fourth floor and resolved to eliminate him before he grew stronger.

Xia Ping cleared the fourth-floor survival trial and began the fifth-floor trial, facing Saint Panwu’s projection in combat. Saint Panwu’s overwhelming punch injured Xia Ping, leaving the trial unresolved.

• Xia Ping survived the abyssal battlefield for an hour and cleared the fourth floor of the Trial Tower.
• Xia Ping appeared in a training hall and met Saint Panwu’s projection, who explained that defeating him would earn a greater treasure.
• Saint Panwu’s projection attacked Xia Ping with the Myriad Mountains Suppression technique.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, but Saint Panwu’s punch sent him flying and injured him before his recovery ability healed him.
• Cat Immortal explained that Saint Panwu had been known as the Invincible Saint and possessed extraordinary magical power.

Xia Ping fought Saint Panwu’s projection through three stances of the Panwu Divine Fist, countering each with his own abilities and Hell Golden Crow bloodline. After their clash with Doomsday and Hell Golden Crow Claw devastated the surrounding area, the battle remained unresolved.

• Saint Panwu praised Xia Ping for surviving his first punch, then attacked with Creation, which Xia Ping countered using the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Palm.
• The collision destroyed the martial arts hall and blasted Xia Ping and Saint Panwu’s projection hundreds of miles apart.
• Saint Panwu followed with Epic, but Xia Ping anchored his soul with the World Tree and shattered the epic scroll with Lightning Fist.
• Saint Panwu unleashed Doomsday, driving Xia Ping toward despair, but Xia Ping’s Hell Golden Crow bloodline dispelled the negative emotions.
• Xia Ping awakened more Hell Golden Crow Cells and struck back with Hell Golden Crow Claw, and the two attacks blasted the surrounding tens of thousands of kilometers.

Xia Ping defeated Saint Panwu’s projection on the fifth floor of the trial tower and received the Panwu True Scripture inheritance. After comprehending its power and demands, he realized the scripture could greatly increase his strength, while chaos erupted outside the tower.

• Xia Ping awakened nine million Hell Golden Crow Cells while fighting Saint Panwu’s projection and eventually found an opening to destroy it.
• The trial tower announced that Xia Ping had passed the fifth floor, and Saint Panwu offered him the Panwu True Scripture as his legacy.
• Xia Ping accepted the inheritance for thirty Hate Crystals and absorbed the scripture’s knowledge.
• Xia Ping learned that the scripture could cultivate nine Primordial Spirits and Purple Mansion spaces, but required exceptional soul power and a strong body.
• Xia Ping finished comprehending the scripture and recognized that passing the trial had made him its only successor.
• Chaos erupted outside the trial tower after Xia Ping passed the fifth floor.

After Xia Ping cleared the fifth floor of the Panwu Trial Tower, the achievement spread across the universe and drew a huge crowd of enemies outside. He emerged from the tower and found himself surrounded, while a Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciple accused him of mass murder and threatened to make him pay.

• Xia Ping cleared the fifth floor of the Panwu Trial Tower, causing the tower to announce his achievement with a pillar of light and shaking runes.
• Witnesses argued over whether Wu Wudi had truly cleared the floor, while his enemies resolved to capture or kill him and seize his rewards.
• News of Wu Wudi's achievement spread from Panwu City throughout the universe within minutes.
• Xia Ping left the tower intending to enter secluded cultivation and advance to the Return to Truth Realm, but found at least five million people gathered outside, most of them hostile.
• Xia Ping joked about charging for autographs, and a Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciple accused him of killing the inhabitants of twenty planets and vowed revenge.

Xia Ping, posing as Wu Wudi, faced a gathering of furious races who accused him of slaughter, deception, and killing their elders. The crowd declared that Panwu City was sealed and threatened to trap him permanently in the virtual network, leaving him surrounded with no apparent escape.

• Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciples rejected Xia Ping’s claim that they were allies and denounced him as a slaughtering fiend.
• Prodigies from the Elephant Race, Antelope Race, Peacock Race, and Fire Bear Clan confronted Xia Ping over deaths and humiliations he had caused.
• An Arhat Race elder blamed Xia Ping for impersonating one of their people and bringing the race heavy losses.
• An Angel Race elder questioned Xia Ping about Oliver and Harley, and Xia Ping admitted that they had died.
• The angels and other gathered factions called for Xia Ping’s death and revealed that experts had sealed off Panwu City and could imprison him in the virtual network.

Xia Ping warned the gathered factions that they would die, then demonstrated his strength by killing Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciples with a single Buddhist palm. As formations from countless factions converged to suppress him, he drew the Samsara Pen and prepared to fight back.

• Xia Ping dismissed the crowd’s threat and urged them not to throw their lives away.
• Xia Ping killed more than a dozen Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciples with the Great Compassion Great Mercy Palm and injured hundreds of onlookers.
• The gathered factions recognized Xia Ping’s strength but decided to attack together using multiple grand formations.
• Xia Ping faced the converging formations without fear and drew the projected magic treasure known as the Samsara Pen.

Xia Ping unleashed the Samsara Pen against the attackers in the Virtual Universe, destroying their formations and grievously injuring their souls. As his enemies fled, he realized the pen grew stronger and its seals weakened by devouring souls.

• Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to shatter the Ten Thousand Poisons Peach Blossom Array and cut down the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect disciples, damaging their souls through the Virtual Universe.
• Xia Ping charged the Angel Race prodigies and destroyed their Angel Six Harmony Array, killing them despite the protection of their angelic light.
• Xia Ping rampaged through the gathered enemies, breaking their formations and forcing survivors to flee after hearing the pen could inflict lasting soul injuries.
• Xia Ping noticed the Samsara Pen's aura growing stronger as it killed and concluded that devouring souls weakened its seals.

Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to slaughter prodigies across Panwu City until his enemies stopped sending fighters. After devastating nearly half the city and killing millions, he withdrew from the virtual network.

• Xia Ping broke the Peacock Race prodigies’ formation with the Samsara Pen and killed them.
• Xia Ping dismissed the nearby onlookers’ pleas and slew thousands of prodigies who had tried to stay out of the fight.
• Xia Ping killed those who begged for mercy, then faced the remaining prodigies as they resolved to fight back.
• Xia Ping poured his mana into the Samsara Pen and summoned a vast Map of the Realm that crushed and slaughtered enemies across Panwu City.
• Xia Ping fought for an hour, destroying nearly half of Panwu City and killing at least ten million prodigies, until the opposing forces stopped sending reinforcements.
• Xia Ping absorbed soul energy through the Samsara Pen and withdrew from the virtual network.

After Xia Ping’s victory in the Virtual Universe left many prodigies with badly damaged souls, news of his power spread across the universe. Hostile forces launched a full-scale hunt for Wu Wudi, while the Saints decided to let him face the danger as a trial by fire.

• The prodigies Xia Ping defeated were ejected from the Virtual Universe with severe soul injuries, and they swore revenge on Wu Wudi.
• News of Wu Wudi’s destruction of half of Panwu City and the deaths of more than ten million people spread throughout the universe, prompting families to warn their clansmen to flee from him.
• The Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, the Mysterious Heaven Sect, and other powerful forces ordered a full-scale bounty and began closing a vast net around Wu Wudi.
• The Saints learned that someone had obtained Saint Panwu’s legacy and chose not to intervene, saying Wu Wudi needed adversity to become a Saint.

Xia Ping broke through to the Return to Truth Realm and condensed a primordial spirit. He discovered that the World Tree made his primordial spirit exceptionally stable and could draw vast energy from subspace.

• Xia Ping used spirit stones, spirit medicines, and other treasures to feed his Golden Core as he approached a breakthrough.
• Xia Ping's Golden Core shattered, and he condensed a primordial spirit, reaching the Return to Truth Realm.
• Xia Ping sent his primordial spirit outside his body and discovered that he could observe his surroundings with divine consciousness and survive without breathing or eating.
• Xia Ping realized the World Tree had become part of his primordial spirit, allowing it to remain outside his body without weakening.
• Xia Ping connected to many subspaces, where the World Tree opened spatial passages and drew in vast amounts of energy, replenishing his reserves.

After stabilizing his Return to Truth Realm cultivation, Xia Ping sought soul energy to cultivate the Panwu True Scripture. The system revealed that Angel Crystals carried the Lord’s will, then purified Xia Ping’s crystals so he could use them safely.

• Xia Ping tested his transformed body and found that his magic, spiritual sense, and Primordial Spirit had grown immensely after reaching the Return to Truth Realm.
• Xia Ping recalled that cultivating the Panwu True Scripture required splitting his Primordial Spirit into nine parts and decided he needed soul-strengthening treasures.
• The system told Xia Ping that Angel Crystals contained powerful soul energy but also the Lord’s will, which could turn anyone who consumed enough into an enslaved angel.
• Xia Ping asked the system to remove the impurities from his Angel Crystals and paid ten Hate Crystals for the purification.
• The system erased the angelic wills inside the crystals, including those of Oliver and Harley, leaving Xia Ping with pure energy.

Xia Ping cultivated the Panwu True Scripture, splitting his primordial spirit and opening a second Purple Mansion space with the help of Angel Crystals. After six months of secluded cultivation, he had opened all nine primordial spirits.

• Xia Ping used the Panwu Splitting Axe to divide his primordial spirit in two and healed the injury with three Return to Truth Realm Angel Crystals.
• Xia Ping opened a new Purple Mansion space for his second primordial spirit and filled it with magical power drawn from dimensional space.
• Xia Ping confirmed that his primordial spirit and magical power had doubled and considered the vast resources required to open more primordial spirits.
• Xia Ping spent six months in secluded cultivation and opened all nine primordial spirits.

After forming his ninth Primordial Spirit and Purple Mansion, Xia Ping tested the immense increase in his strength and discovered he could open large passages into dimensional worlds. He left with a devastating new way to unleash dimensional energy against enemies.

• Xia Ping completed his nine Primordial Spirits and Purple Mansions, realizing that nine was the limit before his soul would collapse.
• Xia Ping tested his physical strength and mana, demonstrating that his power could split the earth and send him soaring over mountains.
• Xia Ping assessed how his nine Purple Mansions and Primordial Spirits multiplied his stamina and cultivation efficiency, though forming them had consumed nearly all his Angel Crystals.
• Xia Ping sensed numerous dimensional worlds without the World Tree's help and sent his nine Primordial Spirits out to form an array.
• Xia Ping opened nine large passages into dimensional spaces and gathered enough energy to destroy a planet or wipe out a continent.

After six months in the Mountain River Bead space, Qiu Xue, Nangong Wu, and Su Mei watched Xia Ping’s seclusion produce nine enormous dimensional passages. The passages vanished, and Xia Ping appeared before them, apparently having successfully advanced to the Return to Truth Realm.

• Qiu Xue, Nangong Wu, and Su Mei enjoyed the space’s abundant resources and made rapid cultivation progress during their six months there.
• Su Mei praised the space as paradise, while Nangong Wu complained about Xia Ping keeping dozens of female slaves.
• The Mountain River Bead space shook as nine black holes opened above the mountain range where Xia Ping was secluded.
• Qiu Xue and Su Mei recognized the dimensional energy as a sign that Xia Ping had likely reached the Return to Truth Realm.
• The nine passages vanished, and Xia Ping appeared before the women.

Xia Ping brought Qiu Xue, Nangong Wu, and Su Mei back to the Universe Sect and arranged for them to live on Yanhuang Peak as his maidservants in name. After learning of his return, the Ma Family’s three elders set out to demand his Heaven-Connecting Token.

• Xia Ping asked Qiu Xue, Nangong Wu, and Su Mei to follow him, and they agreed to join the Universe Sect and use Yanhuang Peak as their base.
• Xia Ping returned to Universe Planet with the three women and told his servants to register their identities and arrange their accommodations.
• The Ma Family’s three elders learned that Xia Ping had returned and discussed obtaining his Heaven-Connecting Token before the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm opened.
• Ma Guowei, Ma Shengping, and Ma Minghao headed to Yanhuang Peak to persuade Xia Ping to hand over the token, with force as a fallback.

Ma Guowei, Ma Shengping, and Ma Minghao visited Xia Ping to buy his Heaven-Connecting Token before the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm opened. After Xia rejected their inadequate offers, Ma Guowei warned that entering the realm would be deadly for a Golden Core Realm cultivator, leaving their attempt to persuade him unresolved.

• Ma Guowei, Ma Shengping, and Ma Minghao told Xia Ping that the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm would open in a little over a week.
• Ma Shengping offered to buy Xia Ping's Heaven-Connecting Token, and Ma Minghao explained that they could sever its soul bond with a secret art.
• Xia Ping demanded several priceless treasures as compensation, but the three elders said they could not provide any of them.
• Xia Ping scorned the elders for being poor, angering them.
• Ma Guowei warned Xia Ping that the secret realm was perilous and that Golden Core Realm cultivators who entered would become easy prey.

Xia Ping refused the Ma Family elders’ attempt to frighten him into surrendering his Heaven-Connecting Token and challenged them to a wager instead. The elders accepted, and the duel was set for the next day with the sect master overseeing the agreement.

• Ma Guowei, Ma Minghao, and Ma Shengping warned Xia Ping that the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm held dangerous enemies, Saint-created secret worlds, and deadly resentful spirits.
• Xia Ping thanked the elders for the information, misunderstanding their warnings as helpful advice.
• Ma Guowei urged Xia Ping to wait until he reached the Dharma Image Realm before entering the secret realm.
• Xia Ping challenged the three elders to fight, wagering his Heaven-Connecting Token against all their treasures.
• Ma Guowei accepted and requested that the sect master witness a contract, and Xia Ping agreed to meet them at the dueling platform the next day.

Ma Guowei, Ma Shengping, and Ma Minghao learned that Xia Ping had advanced to the Return to Truth Realm but believed he could not defeat their Dharma Image Realm strength. The Universe Sect prepared for their duel the next day, with the Heaven-Connecting Token and the elders’ possessions held as stakes.

• Ma Guowei sensed Xia Ping’s new cultivation and suspected he was hiding a great secret, while Ma Shengping and Ma Minghao dismissed his chances against them.
• Ma Shengping told Ma Guowei and Ma Minghao to have the Sect Master serve as intermediary so Xia Ping could not withdraw from the duel.
• News of Xia Ping’s one-against-three duel with the Ma Family elders spread through the Universe Sect, and disciples debated whether he could win.
• The Sect Master confirmed the duel for noon the next day and held the Heaven-Connecting Token and the elders’ assets until the result was decided.
• Universe Sect disciples and elders crowded the dueling platform or prepared to watch the broadcast, leaving the duel’s outcome unknown.

Xia Ping faced Ma Guowei, Ma Shengping, and Ma Minghao in a wagered duel before the Universe Sect, with the Heaven-Connecting Token at stake. Ma Guowei summoned his Kui Ox Dharma Image and attacked Xia Ping with a storm of lightning.

• Universe Sect elders gathered to watch Xia Ping duel the three Dharma Image Realm elders, most expecting him to lose.
• Sect Master Zhu Xian established the duel’s rules and activated the barrier around the platform.
• Ma Guowei offered to share treasures from the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm, but Xia Ping mocked the elders’ chances and urged them to concede.
• Ma Guowei challenged Xia Ping to face him alone, then summoned his Kui Ox Dharma Image.
• Ma Guowei unleashed ten thousand bolts of lightning at Xia Ping.

Xia Ping shattered Ma Guowei’s Kui Ox Dharma Image with one punch and grievously injured him, shocking the Universe Sect spectators. Ma Shengping and Ma Minghao abandoned their one-on-one agreement and attacked Xia Ping together.

• Ma Guowei charged Xia Ping with his Kui Ox Dharma Image, while the elders prepared to intervene.
• Xia Ping stepped forward and destroyed the Kui Ox Dharma Image with one punch, blasting Ma Guowei into the barrier wall and leaving him unconscious and severely injured.
• The spectators and Sect Master Zhu Xian were shocked that a Return to Truth Realm cultivator had defeated a Dharma Image powerhouse so easily.
• Ma Shengping and Ma Minghao became enraged over Ma Guowei’s injuries and decided to attack Xia Ping together.
• Ma Shengping sent an earth-rune pangolin burrowing beneath the ground as Ma Minghao summoned his nine-headed Sea Serpent and launched black currents of air at Xia Ping.