Recaps

Xia Ping attended the Emerald Lord’s banquet to build ties with the factions pursuing the Black Hole Worm, but his strength was challenged by the assembled demons. After he battered the Thunder Hound, a Golden Light Leopard stepped forward to demand a fair fight.

• Xia Ping explained to Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan that joining the Emerald Lord’s group would help them gather intelligence and exploit the other factions.
• Xia Ping attended the City Lord’s Mansion banquet alone, where the Emerald Lord introduced him to the powerful demons gathered there.
• A Thunder Hound objected that Xia Ping was too weak to join the Black Hole Worm expedition and suggested his victory over the Black Wind Old Monster depended on a secret treasure.
• Xia Ping struck the Thunder Hound with a blazing punch, sending it crashing into the City Lord’s Mansion wall and leaving it injured.
• Xia Ping challenged the assembled demons to test his strength, and a Golden Light Leopard stepped forward, accusing him of taking the Thunder Hound by surprise and demanding a fair fight.

Xia Ping crushed the Golden Light Leopard with one palm and intimidated the demons gathered at the City Lord's Mansion. After the Rock Tiger Demon challenged him, the Emerald Lord intervened, leaving the gathering focused on the Black Hole Worm rather than an internal fight.

• Xia Ping struck the Golden Light Leopard down with one palm, gravely wounding it despite its Golden Light divine ability.
• The demons in the hall reassessed Xia Ping's strength, while the Emerald Lord realized its attempt to test him had failed.
• The Rock Tiger Demon challenged Xia Ping, but Xia Ping released his Hell Golden Crow aura and suppressed it with fear.
• The Emerald Lord mediated, and Xia Ping agreed to stand down while warning the demons not to offend him again.
• The Rock Tiger Demon accepted the way out, and the Lightning Tribulation Realm demons began treating Xia Ping as their equal.

Xia Ping traded ten thousand tons of Crystal Fragrant Rice to Emerald Lord and the other demons for large quantities of resources. Several days later, the Black Hole Worm emerged, shaking Emerald City and the surrounding region.

• Emerald Lord asked Xia Ping why he had spent his demon coins, and Xia Ping said he enjoyed the thrill of lavish spending.
• Emerald Lord and the other demons asked to trade for Xia Ping’s Crystal Fragrant Rice, and Xia Ping agreed.
• Xia Ping offered ten thousand tons of rice in exchange for ore, spirit medicine, pills, and other resources.
• Several days later, Xia Ping, Cat Immortal, and Green Ox admired the resources gathered inside the Mountain River Bead.
• The Black Hole Worm emerged, causing Emerald City and tens of thousands of kilometers around it to shake.

Xia Ping and the demon kings of Emerald City raced to the Black Hole Worm’s enormous insect nest, only to find its Spatial Barriers impervious to attack. The Emerald Lord explained that they needed hidden spatial coordinates to enter, and Xia Ping immediately found one, astonishing the gathered demon kings.

• The Emerald Lord led several hundred demon kings, including Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan, from Emerald City toward the Black Hole Worm’s insect nest.
• The demon kings saw that the vast nest was protected by Spatial Barriers, and a Bull Demon King injured itself when its attack rebounded.
• The Emerald Lord explained that the nest could be entered through hidden spatial coordinates and asked the demon kings to search for them.
• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to locate and pull a spatial coordinate from the void, then credited his unmatched fortune for finding it.
• The Emerald Lord and the other demon kings stared at Xia Ping in disbelief and grew jealous of his apparent luck.

Xia Ping found the worm nest's spatial coordinate, then faced a surprise attack from Feng Ganglie, the son of Storm City's lord. After Xia Ping defied him, the Emerald Lord tried to calm Feng Ganglie and apologize on Xia Ping's behalf.

• The Emerald Lord congratulated Xia Ping for finding the spatial coordinate, while Xia Ping claimed leadership over the Demon Kings.
• Feng Ganglie appeared behind Xia Ping and attacked him with Storm City's Wind Emperor Palm.
• Xia Ping countered with the Yang God Fist, shattered Feng Ganglie's attack, and demanded that he kneel and apologize.
• Feng Ganglie revealed his identity as Storm City's lord's son and threatened Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord.
• The Emerald Lord, alarmed by Storm City's power, offered to apologize for Xia Ping's words.

Xia Ping provoked Feng Ganglie until the young lord of Storm City ordered his forces to attack Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord’s group. Feng Ganglie’s Corrosive Storm killed several Demon Kings, and the Emerald Lord’s allies began fighting back.

• Xia Ping declared the Emerald Lord his friend and threatened to destroy Storm City if it harmed Emerald City.
• Feng Ganglie became enraged, vowed to hunt down Xia Ping’s associates and relatives, and summoned several hundred Demon Kings.
• Xia Ping taunted Feng Ganglie’s forces, prompting Feng Ganglie to attack and demand the spatial coordinates of the insect nest.
• Feng Ganglie unleashed his Corrosive Storm, melting several Demon Kings caught at the front of the attack.
• The Black Bone Clan’s Great Elder trapped Feng Ganglie with Black Bone Forest, while the Demon Butterfly Clan’s Great Elder and the Wind Mosquito Clan’s Great Elder attacked the opposing Demon Kings.

Feng Ganglie used the Wind Demon Body and a formation of Demon Kings to withstand the Emerald Lord and the others, then unleashed devastating winds against them. Xia Ping intervened with the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman, and its forty-six dragons shattered Feng Ganglie’s storms.

• Feng Ganglie used his Wind Demon Body to recover from the Demon Kings’ attacks, and the Emerald Lord explained that only soul attacks could harm him.
• Feng Ganglie unleashed several types of destructive wind against the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings, leaving them fearing defeat.
• Xia Ping summoned forty-six Ancient Heavenly Dragons with the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman to protect his friends.
• The Ancient Heavenly Dragons struck together and dispersed Feng Ganglie’s storms.

Xia Ping used the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans to defeat Feng Ganglie, who burned his bloodline and lifespan to escape with the Hidden Wind technique. Xia Ping let him go so the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings would remain dependent on him.

• Feng Ganglie recognized Xia Ping's Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans, while the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings realized they had helped kill Black Wind Old Demon.
• Xia Ping attacked Feng Ganglie with the talismans, whose power had grown after merging with Black Wind Old Demon's eighteen talismans.
• Feng Ganglie and several hundred Demon Kings formed an array, but the Ancient Heavenly Dragons shattered the Wind God Barrier and broke the array, killing several Demon Kings in the backlash.
• Feng Ganglie burned his bloodline and lifespan to activate Hidden Wind and flee into the void.
• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings tried to pursue Feng Ganglie, but Xia Ping let him escape and Feng Ganglie threatened him as he vanished.

Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord’s group defeated the Storm City Demon Kings, collected the spoils, and entered the worm nest using temporary spatial coordinates. They left other Demon Kings behind to seek their own way in, while Feng Ganglie escaped and the threat from Storm City remained.

• Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord’s group slaughtered most of the Storm City Demon Kings, though Feng Ganglie escaped.
• Xia Ping collected nearly all the treasures, while the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings pretended to refuse their share.
• Xia Ping refined the spatial coordinates and opened a temporary passage into the worm nest.
• Xia Ping and the other Demon Kings entered the passage, which vanished after them.
• Nearby Demon Kings discussed Xia Ping’s power and hurried off to search for other spatial coordinates.

Xia Ping entered the Worm Nest and learned that Black Hole Worms hid in dangerous dimensional nests scattered across it. After several Demon Kings died in a flame-filled decoy nest, Qingluan sensed a possible opportunity northwest, and Xia Ping prepared to follow her lead.

• Xia Ping entered the Worm Nest and found barren planets, while the Emerald Lord explained that Black Hole Worms lived in dimensional nests.
• The Emerald Lord pointed out a black hole passage, and several Demon Kings rushed inside to seize a Black Hole Worm.
• The Demon Kings were trapped in a world of exotic flames and burned to ashes before Xia Ping and the others could or would save them.
• The Emerald Lord explained that Black Hole Worms made multiple hazardous nests as traps, and Xia Ping resolved to find a worm quickly and leave the Demon World.
• Qingluan told Xia Ping that she sensed a great opportunity, possibly a Black Hole Worm, to the northwest.

As Xia Ping led the Demon Kings northwest through the enormous worm nest, their frustration grew over his refusal to change course and his earlier conflict with Storm City. The Emerald Lord persuaded them to keep using Xia Ping’s strength for now, then proposed ambushing him when he was weakened to take his Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans.

• Xia Ping kept flying northwest for three days on Qingluan’s directions, despite finding only desolate planets and dangerous trap nests.
• Several Demon Kings secretly complained that Xia Ping ignored their advice and had endangered their standing with Storm City.
• The Emerald Lord urged the Demon Kings to tolerate Xia Ping until they found the Black Hole Worms, since his talismans could help them overcome threats.
• A Demon King warned that Xia Ping might claim all the Black Hole Worms and turn against them.
• The Emerald Lord proposed waiting until Xia Ping was badly wounded in a fight, then ambushing him and taking his talismans.

Xia Ping and the Demon Kings found a vast Black Hole Worm nest surrounded by a battle between thousands of powerful demons. The Emerald Lord saw more than a thousand worm eggs inside and secretly planned to seize them and the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman.

• The Emerald Lord united the Demon Kings against Wu Taidou while secretly intending to kill his allies and claim the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman for himself.
• Xia Ping and the Demon Kings sensed a fierce battle nearby and hurried toward it, hoping to find treasure.
• Xia Ping and the others arrived at a huge nest guarded by Black Hole Worms that attacked enemies with energy drawn from other dimensions.
• Xia Ping discovered that more than two hundred thousand Demon Kings, including over ten thousand Lightning Tribulation Realm experts, were besieging the nest alongside many famous titled Demon Kings.
• The Emerald Lord spotted over a hundred mature Black Hole Worms and more than a thousand eggs inside the nest, prompting the Demon Kings to covet the potential treasure.

Xia Ping discovered a King Worm egg among the Black Hole Worm nest, drawing the attention of the Demon Kings gathered nearby. While the Emerald Lord urged his group to wait for stronger rivals to weaken one another, Xia Ping declared that he would charge in and seize the worms.

• Xia Ping used his Hell Golden Crow Eye to spot a powerful black egg above the other worm eggs.
• The Emerald Lord identified it as a King Worm egg and explained its rarity, command over Black Hole Worms, and ability to boost their reproduction.
• A greedy Demon King urged the group to seize the egg, but the Emerald Lord warned that the battlefield was crowded with powerful Demon Kings and proposed waiting for an opening.
• Xia Ping decided he wanted the King Worm, the mature worms, and the eggs for himself.
• Xia Ping called on the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings to join him in taking the nest, then boasted that he would lead the charge while they stayed behind.
• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings stared in disbelief, convinced that Xia Ping was rushing toward certain death.

Xia Ping ignored warnings from the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings and entered the battle over the Black Hole Worms, demanding that everyone hand the worms and King Worm over to him. The Demon Kings mocked and threatened him, while Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong wondered what he was planning, and Xia Ping prepared to make the Demon World remember Wu Taidou.

• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings tried to stop Xia Ping from entering the battle, but he declared that he would use the Demon Kings as stepping stones to become a Demon Saint.
• Xia Ping flashed into the battlefield, causing the fighting Demon Kings and Black Hole Worms to stop and look at him.
• Xia Ping demanded that the Demon Kings give him face and let him take the worm eggs and King Worm.
• The Mighty Whale King mocked Xia Ping, and the Flood Dragon King cursed and ordered him to leave.
• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings were stunned by Xia Ping's audacity, while Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong watched from inside the Mountain River Bead.
• Xia Ping remained calm, confident in his strength and secret treasures, and resolved to leave the Demon Kings with an unforgettable impression of Wu Taidou.

Xia Ping used the Formless Mask to pass through the Black Hole Worm nest’s defenses and seize every worm egg. He then began refining the nest’s spatial formation, leaving the Demon Kings and Black Hole Worms attacking him.

• Xia Ping changed his aura to resemble a Black Hole Worm, bypassed the nest’s restrictions, and reached its deepest region.
• Xia Ping collected all the Black Hole Worm eggs while the Demon Kings and Black Hole Worms shouted threats at him.
• The Black Hole Worms attacked Xia Ping with a torrent of energy, but he remained inside the nest and examined its spatial formation.
• Xia Ping found the nest’s formation core and instructed the system to refine the Small Insect Nest for fifty Hate Crystals.

Xia Ping refined the miniature worm nest and severed the Black Hole Worms’ control over it, then tried to flee with the nest. The Demon Kings launched a combined assault, leaving him trapped beneath their attacks.

• Xia Ping refined the worm nest, established a spiritual connection with it, and expelled the Black Hole Worms from its control.
• Xia Ping weakened the Black Hole Worms and blocked their attacks with the nest’s Spatial Barriers.
• Xia Ping announced that the Black Hole Worms were his and tried to escape with the worm nest.
• The Flood Dragon King, Hollow Wood King, Silver Wing King, and other Demon Kings attacked the nest with their formations and abilities.
• Demon Kings from Emerald City watched and considered waiting to profit from the battle.
• Xia Ping sensed that the Demon Kings’ attacks had sealed the void and could overwhelm the worm nest.

Xia Ping used forty-six Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans with the insect nest to repel the Demon Kings’ combined assault and demanded that they surrender. Before they could attack again, Feng Tianji and a massive Storm City force arrived, escalating the standoff.

• Xia Ping activated all forty-six Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans through the insect nest, whose combined power shattered the Demon Kings’ formations and wounded their forces.
• Xia Ping remained unharmed inside the insect nest and realized its spatial energy greatly amplified the talismans and strengthened his own body and mana.
• The Demon Kings discussed the talismans’ power and refused to give up the Black Hole Worm eggs or the King Worm, while hesitating to attack again.
• Xia Ping insulted the Demon Kings and demanded that they kneel, beg for mercy, and become his slaves.
• Feng Ganglie appeared with at least a hundred thousand Dharma Image Realm Demon Kings and introduced Feng Tianji, the City Lord of Storm City, as their leader.

Xia Ping faced Feng Ganglie and Feng Tianji as Storm City’s army gathered to seize his insect nest, but the Myriad Demon Pavilion arrived with an even larger force. After the Flame Serpent King accused him of killing Black Wind Old Demon and demanded his surrender, Xia Ping provoked the pavilion, which formed the Flame Serpent Void-Piercing Array.

• Xia Ping taunted Feng Ganglie and Feng Tianji, insisting Storm City’s hundred thousand Demon Kings could not breach the insect nest.
• The Flame Serpent King arrived with more than one hundred and fifty thousand Myriad Demon Pavilion Demon Kings and accused Xia Ping of killing Black Wind Old Demon and taking eighteen Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans.
• Xia Ping insulted the Myriad Demon Pavilion and refused to surrender, threatening to destroy its forces.
• The Flame Serpent King ordered the Myriad Demon Pavilion army to form the Flame Serpent Void-Piercing Array, creating a vast world of fire and awakening a colossal flame serpent.

Xia Ping merged with the insect nest and the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans to withstand the Flame Serpent King and Feng Tianji’s combined formations. Though he shattered their formations, the insect nest was badly damaged, and the other titled Demon Kings launched a fresh attack.

• Feng Tianji summoned Storm City’s hundred thousand elite troops to form the Purple Star Astral Wind Array alongside the Flame Serpent King’s Flame Serpent Void-Piercing Array.
• Xia Ping merged his soul with the insect nest and forty-six Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans, then unleashed the Seven Kill True Dragon Roar.
• The Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans’ attack clashed with both formations, shattering them and injuring Demon Kings, but leaving the insect nest cracked and close to collapse.
• The Hollow Wood King, Silver Wing King, Mighty Whale King, Flood Dragon King, Golden Roc King, and other titled Demon Kings urged one another to attack Xia Ping while he was weakened.

Xia Ping revealed the Mountain River Bead, a Saint Artifact, and unleashed its Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram against the Demon Kings attacking him. The formation badly injured their forces, but the Mighty Whale King urged them to hold on, claiming Xia Ping would soon be drained of energy.

• The Emerald Lord chose to stay out of the battle and watch rather than risk exposing Emerald City's whereabouts.
• Titled Demon Kings attacked Xia Ping, hoping to seize the Black Hole Worm eggs and the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman.
• Xia Ping brought out the Mountain River Bead and activated its Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram with his mana and stored energy.
• The formation shattered the Demon Kings' attacks and injured two hundred thousand of them, prompting many to consider fleeing.
• The Mighty Whale King steadied the Demon Kings, arguing that the Saint Artifact would exhaust Xia Ping after only a few uses.

Xia Ping used the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram to kill the Mighty Whale King and then unleashed the formation against the assembled Demon Kings. The massacre continued as yellow dragons tore apart tens of thousands of them.

• Xia Ping struck the Mighty Whale King with a yellow dragon from the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram, badly wounding it and corroding its body and soul.
• The Mighty Whale King threatened Xia Ping and tried to retreat, but Xia Ping sent the yellow dragon after it and killed it, destroying its body and Primordial Spirit.
• Xia Ping warned the other Demon Kings that they would die next, while the Demon Kings raged and attacked him together.
• Xia Ping activated the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram, sending countless yellow dragons to fight the Demon Kings.
• The yellow dragons overwhelmed the Demon Kings, tearing apart tens of thousands of them and collapsing their Primordial Spirits.

Xia Ping used the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram to slaughter the Demon Kings and collect their corpses and souls. He killed the Flood Dragon King and the fleeing Silver Wing King, leaving the surviving Demon Kings terrified and trapped.

• Xia Ping gathered the fallen Demon Kings’ corpses, Space Rings, and scattered soul energy.
• Xia Ping formed a Yellow Springs Blade and beheaded the Flood Dragon King, then destroyed its body and Primordial Spirit with a palm strike.
• The Silver Wing King fled, but the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram’s spatial formation trapped it in a maze.
• Xia Ping seized the Silver Wing King with a giant hand of Yellow Rivers despite its threats and pleas for mercy.
• Xia Ping crushed the Silver Wing King and dispersed its Primordial Spirit.

The Flame Serpent King and Feng Tianji tried to seize the Emerald Lord and his companions as hostages to escape Wu Taidou’s formation. Wu Taidou responded by activating the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram against the gathered demons, while the Emerald Lord pleaded that he was still alive and could be saved.

• The Flame Serpent King and the other Myriad Demon Pavilion Demon Kings panicked after the Silver Wing King, Flood Dragon King, and Mighty Whale King died, and Feng Tianji admitted it had no way to escape the formation.
• Feng Ganglie spotted the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings, and Feng Tianji and the Flame Serpent King decided to capture them as hostages.
• The Emerald Lord insisted it was not close to Wu Taidou, but Feng Ganglie called it a liar, and Feng Tianji and the others captured the Emerald Lord’s group after a brief fight.
• Wu Taidou saw the capture, mockingly promised to avenge the Emerald Lord and take care of its city and family, then activated the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram against the gathered demons.
• The Emerald Lord shouted that it was still alive and could be saved as Wu Taidou prepared to attack them all.

Feng Tianji used Storm City's Wind Jade Orb to free himself and the other Demon Kings from Xia Ping's Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram. Xia Ping shattered the orb with the Samsara Pen, and the Demon Kings died in the spatial turbulence, leaving him to collect their bodies and treasures.

• Feng Tianji activated Storm City's Wind Jade Orb, forming a barrier around the Demon Kings and tearing free of the Nine-Bend Yellow River Diagram.
• Green Ox identified the Wind Jade Orb as a Demon Saint-made secret treasure that the formation could not restrain.
• Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to strike and shatter the Wind Jade Orb as it fled through the void.
• Feng Tianji, Feng Ganglie, the Flame Serpent King, the Emerald Lord, and the other Demon Kings died in the spatial turbulence.
• Xia Ping collected the dead Demon Kings' bodies, pills, spiritual medicines, and magic treasures.

Xia Ping wiped out the Demon Kings trapped in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, then spared survivors to spread his name and challenge the forces that might seek revenge. The Black Hole Worms offered to become his vassals so they could protect their King Worm, and Xia Ping agreed to their proposed blood contract.

• Xia Ping killed hundreds of thousands of Demon Kings, including the Silver Wing King, Mighty Whale King, and Flood Dragon King, but deliberately let some survivors escape.
• Xia Ping told the surviving Demon Kings to spread word of his name and invite the Myriad Demon Pavilion, Storm City, the Winged Clan, and the Flood Dragon Clan to seek revenge.
• The fleeing Demon Kings discussed their losses and feared that the massacre could draw the attention of Demon Saints.
• Xia Ping confronted the unharmed Black Hole Worms, and their Grand Elder said they wanted to follow him because he had become the King Worm's master.
• The Black Hole Worm Great Elder offered a blood contract to prove their loyalty, and Xia Ping accepted.