Recaps

Xia Ping expelled all human bidders from the auction, provoking fury from human mighty figures and the disciples of the Dark Hall and Primordial Sacred Land. He began the auction by demanding a million-year-old spiritual herb for the bundled Creation Pill and other pills, leaving many Demon Kings unable to bid.

• Human mighty figures protested Xia Ping's ban, while other races mocked them and supported the exclusion.
• Xia Ping ordered the system to expel every human from the auction venue, prompting threats and outrage from the humans and sacred-land disciples.
• Xia Ping opened the auction and set the starting price for the Creation Pill bundle at one million-year-old spiritual herb, accepting barter instead of Universal Coin.
• Demon Kings balked at the price because sacred herbs were extraordinarily rare, but Xia Ping argued that the pills were worth the cost because the Creation Pill improved their odds of becoming Saints.
• Xia Ping warned Demon Kings without Saint medicine not to bid, further angering those who could not afford the starting price.

Xia Ping auctioned Creation Pills to Demon Kings, who offered rare sacred medicines and spirit medicines in exchange. He left the auction with nine sacred medicines and ninety hundred-thousand-year spirit medicines, while the buyers and watching human powers seethed with resentment.

• A Demon King bid a Purple Lightning Exotic Flower for a Creation Pill, prompting a Thunder Demon King to explain its rarity and power.
• Demon Kings raised their bids with Void Grass, a Five Elements Vine, Phoenix Wood, and increasing numbers of hundred-thousand-year spirit medicines.
• Xia Ping welcomed the Demon Kings' offers and privately credited the Saint of Creation with making the trade possible.
• The day-long auction ended after Xia Ping sold nine Creation Pills and other pills, gaining nine sacred medicines and ninety hundred-thousand-year spirit medicines.
• Human powers watching from outside envied Xia Ping's gains, while the Demon Kings vowed to find a chance to kill Wu Wudi.

After the Map of Heavens' Creation expelled its visitors, Xia Ping returned to the Virtual Universe and tried to befriend ancient remnant species and Demon Kings, who fled from him. A Buddhist Sect figure then asked him to return the Saha Prayer Beads, but Xia Ping demanded a supreme-grade sacred artifact in exchange.

• The system awarded Xia Ping eighty Hate Crystals, bringing his total to four hundred and sixty.
• The Map of Heavens' Creation's artifact spirit teleported all its visitors away, and Xia Ping arrived on an uninhabited primitive planet.
• Xia Ping tried to get an ancient remnant species' contact information, but it fled from him.
• Xia Ping offered to become sworn brothers with a Demon King, who rejected him and logged off, followed by the other Demon Kings.
• A Buddhist Sect figure asked Xia Ping to auction back the Saha Prayer Beads, and Xia Ping demanded a supreme-grade sacred artifact for them.

After Xia Ping refused to return the Saha Prayer Beads and logged off to avoid the Angel Race, the Buddhist monks speculated about his backing and chose to wait. News that Wu Wudi had captured ancient remnant species as slaves enraged the Ancient Alliance, and Ancestor Qiongqi emerged to hunt him down.

• Xia Ping refused the Buddhist Sect's offers for the Saha Prayer Beads, and its monks departed after failing to reclaim the artifact.
• Angels demanded that Wu Wudi return the Glory Scepter, but Xia Ping logged off, prompting them to threaten to enlist Saint-level angels to find him.
• Buddhist monks concluded that a Saint likely supported Wu Wudi and decided to wait for his identity to emerge.
• An ancient remnant reported that Wu Wudi had captured Feiyi, Black Baleful Demon Bird, Purple Crystal Tiger, Nine-Headed Lion, Void Butterfly, Golden Ant, and other elites, provoking the Ancient Alliance.
• Ancestor Qiongqi appeared before the Ancient Alliance and declared that Wu Wudi would die for enslaving ancient remnants.

Holy Angel Loki, Qiongqi, and Venerable Indra Dehui searched for Wu Wudi on Dragon Wood Planet, but Loki’s Time Reversal could not reveal him. Indra warned that a powerful being might be protecting Wu Wudi, and the three Saints left without finding a trace.

• Qiongqi, Holy Angel Loki, and Venerable Indra Dehui met near Dragon Wood Planet and argued over who would claim Wu Wudi.
• Holy Angel Loki used Time Reversal to replay events around the planet and search for Wu Wudi.
• Loki and Qiongqi saw that Wu Wudi’s image was obscured by a mysterious force that distorted time.
• Venerable Indra Dehui suggested that a terrifying existence might be protecting Wu Wudi, prompting Loki to leave and report his suspicions.
• Qiongqi searched other places where Wu Wudi had appeared but found no clues and eventually gave up.

Xia Ping returned to Universe Planet after gaining a breakthrough in the Map of Heavens' Creation and learned he would help oversee the next Abyss Demon trial. When arrogant Primordial Sacred Land disciples confronted him, he mocked them for their defeat by Wu Wudi, leaving them furious.

• Xia Ping returned to Universe Planet at the mid-stage Dharma Image Realm, and Sect Master Zhu Xian and the others greeted him.
• Sect Master Zhu Xian asked Xia Ping to help oversee the new disciples' Abyss Demon trial at a different Sealed Land.
• Xia Ping learned that he would depart for the Central Universe in three months to join the Primordial Sacred Land.
• More than a dozen Primordial Sacred Land disciples arrived and looked down on the Universe Sect members.
• Xia Ping mocked the Primordial Sacred Land disciples for being routed by Wu Wudi, and they angrily defended their strength and standing.

Xia Ping accepted a challenge from the Primordial Sacred Land disciples and defeated their first fighter with a single finger. When several more disciples rushed him, his Hell Golden Crow Eye’s divine consciousness knocked them unconscious, leaving the others stunned.

• Xia Ping agreed to spar with the Primordial Sacred Land disciples after warning that he might injure them.
• A peak Dharma Image Realm disciple attacked Xia Ping with the Kingly Way Killing Fist.
• Xia Ping shattered the fist imprints with one finger and sent the disciple flying, leaving him badly injured and unable to fight.
• Xia Ping taunted the other disciples, and four of them moved to attack him.
• Xia Ping released divine consciousness from his Hell Golden Crow Eye, causing the four disciples to collapse unconscious.

Xia Ping overwhelmed the Primordial Sacred Land disciples, then extorted meeting gifts from them before they left. He returned to Yanhuang Peak and asked Sect Master Zhu Xian to notify him when the trial began.

• Xia Ping made four Primordial Sacred Land disciples faint with a glance, frightening the remaining Lightning Tribulation Realm disciples.
• Xia Ping taunted the disciples and repeatedly challenged them to spar, but they refused and claimed they were injured and busy.
• Xia Ping demanded meeting gifts before letting the Primordial Sacred Land disciples leave.
• The disciples gave Xia Ping pills and the Kingly Way Killing Fist manual, then carried away their injured junior brothers and left.
• Xia Ping returned to Yanhuang Peak after asking Sect Master Zhu Xian to notify him when the trial began.

Xia Ping refined the Phoenix Wood into Phoenix Blood and devoured it, awakening many Hell Golden Crow Cells. He reached ninety-five million awakened cells and chose to cultivate in seclusion rather than risk triggering a heavenly tribulation before he was prepared.

• Xia Ping received the sacred medicines he had bought at auction and set the others aside in the Mountain River Bead.
• Xia Ping used Hell Golden Crow Fire to melt the Phoenix Wood into Phoenix Blood.
• Xia Ping swallowed the Phoenix Blood, and his Hell Golden Crow bloodline overwhelmed and devoured the phoenix power within it.
• Xia Ping awakened a total of ninety-five million Hell Golden Crow Cells and realized he needed five million more to reach one hundred million.
• Xia Ping decided to delay that breakthrough until he was ready for the resulting heavenly tribulation, then continued cultivating in seclusion.

Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird argued over how to escape their captivity inside Wu Wudi’s spatial treasure. The Black Baleful Demon Bird revealed it had secretly made a way out of their cage, and the two prepared to flee.

• Feiyi proposed earning Wu Wudi’s trust by working for him for centuries, but the Black Baleful Demon Bird slapped him and rejected the plan.
• The Black Baleful Demon Bird explained that Wu Wudi’s lax defenses gave them an opportunity to retaliate and force him to let them go.
• The Black Baleful Demon Bird planned to escape their cage, kidnap one of Wu Wudi’s high-ranking subordinates, and use the captive as leverage.
• The Black Baleful Demon Bird revealed that its black mist had secretly corroded a small passage through the cage despite its sealed mana.
• Feiyi urged them to run, but the Black Baleful Demon Bird told him to lower his voice and shrink his body.

Black Baleful Demon Bird and Feiyi escaped their confinement in the Mountain River Bead space and tried to seize a high-ranking official to bargain with Wu Wudi. They broke into Luna’s estate, where her terrifying aura drove them to flee.

• Black Baleful Demon Bird and Feiyi secretly escaped while Green Ox focused on planting the sacred medicines.
• Black Baleful Demon Bird decided to avoid the ancient remnants who might betray them and led Feiyi toward an estate where they planned to capture its supposed high-ranking official.
• Black Baleful Demon Bird and Feiyi entered the unguarded estate and found Luna watering flowers.
• Luna sensed the intruders, and her overwhelming aura terrified Black Baleful Demon Bird and Feiyi.
• Feiyi fled immediately, leaving Black Baleful Demon Bird behind to curse its companion.

Luna knocked Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird away when they tried to kidnap her, and the pair fled after realizing she was the Corpse Beast. Their search for somewhere to recover led them to Gaia’s cave and then into the territory of Taotie, where they fainted in terror.

• Luna blasted Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird more than a hundred million kilometers away with one palm strike, then returned to sleep.
• Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird recognized Luna as the Corpse Beast and fled to a nearby cave to recover.
• Feiyi spotted a giant egg in the cave, and the Black Baleful Demon Bird recognized it as Gaia and urged them not to wake her.
• The pair fled several hundred million kilometers from Gaia’s cave and wondered what kind of power Wu Wudi commanded.
• A voice accused Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird of entering its territory to steal food, and they recognized Taotie before fainting.

Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird woke to find themselves facing Tan Menglu and Chong Xiaoqian, who considered eating them or keeping them as servants. After the two ancient descendants claimed they could cook and play games, Tan Menglu spared them, while she and Chong Xiaoqian rushed off to confront a game rival; Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird decided to stay put rather than risk escaping again.

• Tan Menglu woke Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird, who panicked at the sight of a Taotie and begged to be returned to their cage.
• Chong Xiaoqian arrived and joined Tan Menglu in questioning the pair, who learned that Wu Wudi was their owner.
• Tan Menglu recognized Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird as potential food, but Chong Xiaoqian suggested making them servants instead.
• Feiyi claimed he could play games and the Black Baleful Demon Bird claimed he could cook, so Tan Menglu spared them and assigned them servant duties.
• Chong Xiaoqian told Tan Menglu that a game rival had been attacking her and threatening their city, and the two hurried off to confront him.
• Feiyi considered running away, but the Black Baleful Demon Bird persuaded him to stay until they understood the dangers outside.

After a month of cultivation, Xia Ping reached the peak of the mid-stage Dharma Image Realm and tested his newly mastered Kingly Way Killing Fist. He inspected Green Ox’s thriving sacred-herb fields, then set out to escort new disciples and encountered Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi.

• Xia Ping consolidated the Phoenix Blood’s energy, advanced to the peak of the mid-stage Dharma Image Realm, and kept his Hell Golden Crow Cells at ninety-five million to avoid heavenly tribulation.
• Xia Ping tested the Kingly Way Killing Fist in the Mountain River Bead and blasted a vast crater into the desert.
• Green Ox showed Xia Ping the thriving medicinal fields for the Purple Lightning Exotic Flower, Five Elements Vine, and other sacred herbs.
• Sect Master Zhu Xian told Xia Ping to join several elders in escorting newly admitted disciples during their trial, and Xia Ping agreed.
• Xia Ping left Yanhuang Peak for the sect’s main hall and met Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi heading in the same direction.

Xia Ping met Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi as they headed to the trial for newly inducted disciples, and bragged about his status and cultivation. At the main hall, the disciples gathered for the trial admired Xia Ping as a legendary figure and their examiner.

• Xia Ping greeted Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi and learned they were going to take part in the newly inducted disciples' trial.
• Xia Ping told the four women that he would supervise the trial as an elder-level figure, then mocked their late Treasure Refining Realm cultivation while boasting about his own status.
• Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi vowed to cultivate harder and catch up to Xia Ping before flying to the main hall.
• Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi arrived at the main hall, where Sect Master Zhu Xian and the elders had gathered with the newly inducted disciples.
• The disciples praised Xia Ping's rapid rise to the Dharma Image Realm, his connection to North Nether Saint, and his victories over disciples from the Primordial Sacred Land.

Xia Ping explained his rapid cultivation and wealth to the Universe Sect disciples, offering advice that reflected how easily he found pills and treasures. He left the disciples baffled by describing adventures as a reliable way to get rich.

• Female disciples openly admired Xia Ping and discussed ways to seduce him, while Su Ji, Yu Qiqi, Chu Rong, and Jiang Yaru criticized them.
• A disciple asked Xia Ping how he had advanced from the Purple Mansion Realm to the Dharma Image Realm so quickly, and Xia Ping advised taking large amounts of pills and finding holy medicine.
• When disciples asked which pills to buy and what to do without money, Xia Ping said to buy them all and withdraw money from the bank.
• A disciple asked how to earn enough money never to run out, and Xia Ping recommended adventuring in cosmic secret realms.
• Xia Ping described finding treasures after rival factions destroyed each other, stumbling into undiscovered realms, and discovering an ancient Saint's inheritance after falling into danger.

Xia Ping’s account of his extraordinary luck drew disbelief from the disciples before Sect Master Zhu Xian sent the group to Demon Continent No. 333333 for the Abyss Demon trial. As the other sects arrived, Xia Ping searched the Lingyun Sect delegation for Ye Mengyao but did not find her.

• Disciples told Xia Ping how secret realms had brought them danger and injury rather than treasure, and the elders realized his rapid progress came from unbelievable luck.
• Xia Ping described earning steady income by depositing fifty billion Universal Coins in the Universal Bank, prompting Sect Master Zhu Xian to end the conversation.
• Sect Master Zhu Xian teleported the disciples and elders from Universe Planet to Demon Continent No. 333333, where they waited for the Abyss Demon trial to begin.
• Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi discussed the desolate continent and explained that it was only land at the entrance to the Abyss World.
• Disciples from the Lingyun Sect, Five Elements Sect, Guiyuan Sect, Flying Immortal Sect, and other sects arrived, but Xia Ping did not see Ye Mengyao among the Lingyun Sect delegation.

The elders of the four major sects arrived at the Universe Sect and learned that Ye Mengyao was preparing to undergo tribulation. Xia Ping agreed to supervise the new disciples’ trial in the Abyss World, where he planned to hunt demons and advance his cultivation.

• The four sects’ elders praised Xia Ping, who bragged about his strength before asking why Ye Mengyao had not attended.
• The Lingyun Sect elder revealed that Ye Mengyao was preparing to undergo tribulation, astonishing the other sects’ elders.
• The Universe Sect elder announced that each major sect would send an observer into the Abyss World to guard against another demonic attack.
• The Universe Sect assigned Xia Ping to observe the trial, and he accepted a golden spirit talisman that could teleport him out.
• The Heavenly Secret List opened an entrance to the Abyss World, and the new disciples flew inside.

Xia Ping entered the Abyss World with observers from four major sects, then ventured alone into the continent and discovered a vast gathering of powerful Abyss Demons. Disguised as a Dragon-Horn Demon, he infiltrated the valley where they had assembled.

• Xia Ping left the observers behind despite their warnings and traveled deeper into the Abyss Continent.
• Xia Ping sensed that powerful Abyss Demons were gathered in a valley and wondered what had brought them together.
• Xia Ping disguised himself as a mid-stage Dharma Image Realm Dragon-Horn Demon and approached the valley.
• The demon guards mistook Xia Ping for an important guest and led him into the gathering.

Disguised as a Dragon-Horn Demon, Xia Ping attended a gathering where the Heavenly Heart Demon revealed the Abyss World’s plan to invade the human world. The demons rallied behind the plan, and Xia Ping listened cautiously as the Heavenly Heart Demon described their intended conquest.

• Xia Ping joined the gathered Abyss Demons and recognized the Sunshine Demon, Nine Nether Demon, and Heavenly Heart Demon at the front.
• The Heavenly Heart Demon began the meeting, and a Tiger Claw Demon demanded to know whether the Demon Saints had ordered an attack on the human world.
• The Heavenly Heart Demon recounted the Abyss Demons’ defeat in the Ancient Era and stirred the demons’ anger over their confinement and use as trial prey.
• The Heavenly Heart Demon declared that the Demon Saints had discovered how to break the sealing formation and had prepared the Abyss World for another invasion.
• The Abyss Demons roared in support as the Heavenly Heart Demon vowed to conquer the universe steadily by devouring star fields and exterminating its inhabitants.

Xia Ping disrupted the Abyss Demons’ meeting and attacked them after hearing their plans to invade the human world. He killed a Black Snake Devil King with one punch, then faced a Deadly Poison Devil King’s attack as the surrounding demons fled the poisonous rain.

• The Abyss Demons rallied around Heavenly Heart Demon’s call to invade the universe and slaughter humans, while Xia Ping recognized the threat of a coming war.
• Xia Ping appeared as Wu Wudi and taunted the demons, revealing himself as a human among them.
• After the Ram-Horn Devil King and Black Snake Devil King threatened him, Xia Ping killed the Black Snake Devil King with a single Kingly Way Killing Fist.
• Xia Ping absorbed the dead demon’s soul energy, strengthening his cultivation and bringing his Hell Golden Crow Cells closer to awakening one hundred million.
• The Abyss Demons attacked Xia Ping in rage, and the Deadly Poison Devil King unleashed a poisonous rain that forced nearby demons to retreat.

Xia Ping killed the Deadly Poison Demon King with freezing qi, then faced a coordinated assault from more than ten Demon Kings. He summoned the Thousand-Eye Demon and wiped out the attacking Demon Kings, leaving the demon nest’s siege broken.

• Xia Ping froze the Deadly Poison Demon King and shattered its body and Primordial Spirit.
• The Frost Demon King, Rending Demon King, Many-Eyed Demon King, Burning Demon King, and other Demon Kings attacked Xia Ping together.
• Xia Ping summoned the thousand-zhang Thousand-Eye Demon Dharma Form.
• The Thousand-Eye Demon shattered the Demon Kings’ attacks and pierced through their bodies.
• The Frost Demon King, Rending Demon King, Many-Eyed Demon King, Burning Demon King, and more than ten other Demon Kings were dismembered and killed.

Xia Ping absorbed the power of the slain Demon Kings as Abyss Demons gathered to challenge him, and his one hundred millionth Hell Golden Crow Cell awakened. His blood transformed into dark golden blood and his aura blasted the demons away, while Sunshine Demon recognized the power of the true sun within him and coveted it.

• Xia Ping mocked the Abyss Demons after killing more than a dozen Demon Kings and absorbed their lingering soul energy.
• Nine Nether Demon and Heavenly Heart Demon threatened Xia Ping, while Sunshine Demon announced that it would kill him and devour the power it sensed within him.
• Xia Ping's one hundred millionth Hell Golden Crow Cell awakened, causing his blood to transform into dark golden blood.
• Xia Ping's erupting aura repelled every Abyss Demon within a thousand kilometers and left the demons unable to resist.
• Sunshine Demon recognized Xia Ping as containing the origin of the true sun and resolved to devour him to become the genuine article.

Xia Ping awakened the bloodline divine ability Underworld God's Spear, provoking the Abyss World's laws to summon Scarlet Lightning. The Abyss Demons realized the heavenly tribulation centered on Xia Ping and panicked about being caught in it.

• Xia Ping received the Hell Golden Crow's bloodline inheritance as one hundred million of his cells awakened.
• Xia Ping condensed flames into the Underworld God's Spear, a powerful killing ability formed from Hell Golden Crow Flame.
• The Abyss World's laws reacted to the divine ability, and vast blood-red tribulation clouds spread across the continent.
• The Abyss Demons recognized the clouds as a sign of Scarlet Lightning, also called World-Ending Lightning.
• The demons blamed Xia Ping for triggering the tribulation and argued over whether they could escape its reach.

Blood-red Scarlet Lightning tribulation clouds terrified demons and alarmed the four great sects’ elders on the Demon Continent. Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi wondered whether Xia Ping had caused the upheaval, then returned their attention to hunting demons.

• The Sunshine Demon, Heavenly Heart Demon, and Nine Nether Demon sensed the deadly Scarlet Lightning and hesitated to approach Xia Ping at the tribulation’s center.
• Elders from the Lingyun Sect, Five Elements Sect, Guiyuan Sect, and Flying Immortal Sect recognized the clouds as heavenly tribulation and discussed the danger of a powerful demon’s birth.
• The elders could not reach Xia Ping, suspected he might have entered the demons’ headquarters, and confirmed with the Heavenly Secret List that they could teleport their disciples away if needed.
• Su Ji, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Yu Qiqi spotted the distant clouds and debated whether Xia Ping had caused them.
• The four women decided to continue hunting low-level demons and complete their trial mission.