Recaps

Xia Ping struck the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint and split its body, but the immortal Saint regenerated and retaliated with the Curse Codex. The curse invaded Xia Ping’s soul and body, leaving him plagued by inner demons and the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.

• Xia Ping teleported behind the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint and punched it into two pieces, but it quickly regenerated.
• The Curse-Slaying Demon Saint admitted it had underestimated Xia Ping and brought out its mid-grade Saint artifact, the Curse Codex.
• Green Ox warned Xia Ping that the Curse Codex’s curse could attack across space, destroy souls, and bring about the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.
• The Curse-Slaying Demon Saint sacrificed vital blood to activate the Curse Codex, sending its power into Xia Ping.
• The curse entered Xia Ping’s consciousness, Dharma manifestations, organs, and cells, stirring inner demons and draining his life force.

Curse-Slaying Demon Saint unleashed a powerful curse on Xia Ping, but the Hell Golden Crow Flame burned it away and the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art absorbed its essence. Xia Ping formed a black curse dagger and struck Curse-Slaying Demon Saint, leaving it screaming as the curse attacked its soul.

• Curse-Slaying Demon Saint cursed Xia Ping and sent the curse power into his soul.
• Xia Ping's Hell Golden Crow Flame consumed the curse power, protecting him and leaving behind its essence.
• Xia Ping's Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art absorbed the curse essence and transformed into a powerful curse talisman.
• Xia Ping formed a black dagger from the talisman's curse power and hurled it at Curse-Slaying Demon Saint.
• The dagger pierced Curse-Slaying Demon Saint's Primordial Spirit, and the curse tore at its soul.

Xia Ping fought the immortal Curse-Slaying Demon Saint after breaking its curse, but its undying body threatened to outlast him. He chose to spend fifty Hate Crystals to temporarily unseal the first layer of the Samsara Pen so he could destroy the Demon Saint for good.

• The Curse-Slaying Demon Saint blew up its body to escape Xia Ping's curse, then reformed with its vital energy severely depleted.
• Xia Ping and the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint exchanged blows, wrecking much of the Blood Soul Saint's palace complex while Liu Rulan watched from the Inheritance Hall.
• The Curse-Slaying Demon Saint relied on its undying body and tried to exhaust Xia Ping's divine power.
• Xia Ping considered bringing out Xiao Dai but decided the Demon Saint might escape and remain a threat to him and those around him.
• Xia Ping asked the system how to kill an immortal Saint and learned he could temporarily unseal the Samsara Pen for fifty Hate Crystals.
• Xia Ping accepted the cost and ordered the system to unseal the Samsara Pen's first layer.

Xia Ping temporarily released the Samsara Pen’s first seal and gained the Soul-Hooking Spirit-Seizing divine ability. He used it to seize the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint’s soul and disable its regeneration, leaving the Demon Saint begging for its life.

• Xia Ping repeatedly smashed and dismembered the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint, but the Demon Saint regenerated every injury.
• The Samsara Pen’s first seal opened, granting Xia Ping the Soul-Hooking Spirit-Seizing divine ability for one hundred breaths.
• Xia Ping poured his mana into the Samsara Pen and used it against the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint.
• The Samsara Pen shattered the Demon Saint’s body, seized its soul, and prevented it from drawing on origin energy to regenerate.
• The Curse-Slaying Demon Saint begged Xia Ping to spare it, offering to become his slave and give him its treasures.

Xia Ping killed the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint with the Samsara Pen, took its curse essence and Curse Codex, and left Azure Sea World with Liu Rulan to avoid the Demon Race’s retaliation. News of the demon saint’s death soon reached the Demon Race’s holy land.

• Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to shatter the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint’s soul, then collected the remaining curse energy and its intact Curse Codex.
• Liu Rulan emerged from the ruined great hall, learned the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint was dead, and warned Xia Ping that the Demon Race would target Azure Sea World.
• Xia Ping decided to leave Azure Sea World with Liu Rulan, teasing her before carrying her aboard his Star Ship.
• News of the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint’s death reached the Demon Race’s holy land and caused an uproar.

After the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint died in the Azure Sea World, the demon race learned that Human Wu Wudi had killed it while helping a Soul Clan saintess. The Howling Wolf Demon Saint ordered a universe-wide hunt for Wu Wudi, leaving the human newly marked as a target of the demon race.

• The Demon Kings reported the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint's death to the Demon Saints, and the Howling Wolf Demon Saint demanded an account of what had happened.
• A subordinate explained that the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint had sought the Blood Soul Saint's inheritance and pursued the Soul Clan saintess who had inherited it.
• The subordinate said a Lightning Tribulation Realm human named Wu Wudi had fought the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint and left a message claiming responsibility for its death.
• The Demon Saints recalled Wu Wudi's earlier crimes and speculated that Gaia and the Blood Soul Saint's measures had helped him kill the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint.
• The Howling Wolf Demon Saint ordered a universe-wide hunt for Wu Wudi and promised a rich reward to whoever found or killed him.

Howling Wolf Demon Saint punished the Demon Kings who failed to protect Curse-Slaying Demon Saint and set its sights on capturing Gaia. News of Curse-Slaying Demon Saint’s death spread across the Central Universe, and the major powers began treating Wu Wudi as an Immortal Saint-level threat.

• Howling Wolf Demon Saint turned the Demon Kings into insects for a thousand years for failing to call for help in time.
• Howling Wolf Demon Saint resolved to capture Gaia and uncover the universe’s mysteries within her.
• Spies and reports spread confirmation that Wu Wudi had killed Curse-Slaying Demon Saint, shocking the major powers.
• The major powers speculated that Wu Wudi had used Gaia’s strength and raised his threat level to that of an Immortal Saint.
• The major powers ordered their spies to report Wu Wudi’s whereabouts to Saints and warned them not to confront him.

Xia Ping refined the curse power he gained from the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint, transforming the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art into a long-range assassination technique. When his lightning tribulation arrived ahead of schedule, he returned to Yanhuang Planet to undergo it, but the tribulation cloud that gathered over the starfield was overwhelmingly powerful.

• Xia Ping absorbed the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint's gray matter and infused its curse power into the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art.
• Xia Ping tested the art's reach by throwing a curse dagger that crossed billions of kilometers and pulverized a mountain.
• Xia Ping finished refining the Curse Codex and learned about its collection of curse techniques.
• Xia Ping sensed that his lightning tribulation was approaching months earlier than expected and decided to return to Yanhuang Planet.
• Xia Ping traveled through the Gaia Space wormhole to Yanhuang Planet, where a billion-kilometer-wide tribulation cloud darkened the entire starfield.

Xia Ping faced the universe's Gui Water Tribulation Lightning, which targeted the fire power in his body and grew more violent as he absorbed and countered it. The chapter ended with him resisting tens of thousands of lightning rivers using his nine Heaven and Earth Dharma Forms.

• Green Ox recognized the tribulation clouds as Gui Water Tribulation Lightning and warned Xia Ping that their power rivaled the tribulation faced by cultivators advancing to sainthood.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to form an ocean barrier that swallowed the lightning liquid and converted its energy into lightning essence.
• The universe's origin intensified the attack, sending down lightning spheres that threatened to overwhelm Xia Ping's barrier.
• Xia Ping summoned his nine Heaven and Earth Dharma Manifestations, which blasted apart the lightning spheres.
• The tribulation clouds formed thousands of lightning rivers and submerged Xia Ping, but he channeled power from his nine Purple Mansion spaces as the World Tree's roots devoured the Yin-Water tribulation lightning.

Xia Ping survived the Gui Water Tribulation Lightning and advanced to the mid-stage Lightning Tribulation Realm, gaining greatly in power. Seeking soul energy to unseal the Samsara Pen and further develop his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline, he decided to return to the Green Sun Secret Realm, which might lead to the hell world.

• After three days and nights, Xia Ping endured the Gui Water Tribulation Lightning and reached the mid-stage Lightning Tribulation Realm.
• Xia Ping tested his new strength by seizing a distant planet with a giant hand formed from mana.
• Xia Ping awakened another 250 million Hell Golden Crow Cells, bringing the total to 800 million.
• The system awarded Xia Ping seventy Hate Crystals for killing the Curse-Slaying Demon Saint, raising his total to 620.
• The system told Xia Ping that unsealing the first seal of the Samsara Pen required the soul energy of ten million peak Lightning Tribulation Realm cultivators.
• Xia Ping decided to revisit the Green Sun Secret Realm to seek a route into the hell world and gather soul energy.

After Xia Ping returned from his lightning tribulation, Liu Rulan told him she had to leave to continue receiving the Blood Soul Saint's inheritance and teleported away. Soon after, Xiao Dai awakened, filling the Mountain River Bead space with a powerful aura.

• Liu Rulan surveyed the Mountain River Bead space and realized its abundant spiritual grains and herbs had greatly accelerated her cultivation.
• Xia Ping returned safely after passing his lightning tribulation, and Liu Rulan told him she had to continue receiving the Blood Soul Saint's inheritance.
• Liu Rulan activated the Blood Soul Saint's mark and teleported to a Soul Hall after teasing Xia Ping about staying faithful.
• Xia Ping sensed that Xiao Dai had awakened, and her powerful aura made the Mountain River Bead space tremble.

Gaia Xiao Dai advanced to immortality, alarming the ancient remnants working in the valley. Xia Ping explored her transformed Gaia Space and discovered its powerful laws, prisonlike boundaries, and benefits for those cultivating within it.

• Feiyi and the Black Baleful Demon Bird sensed Gaia’s immortal aura and hoped she would turn against Xia Ping, allowing them to escape.
• The ancient remnants laboring in the herb fields sensed the aura and feared that an Immortal Gaia would make escape impossible.
• Xia Ping found Xiao Dai briefly awake before she returned to sleep, and he observed her complete control over her growing power.
• Xia Ping entered Gaia Space and found a miniature universe with World Origin, increasingly complete laws, and boundaries that could imprison Immortal Saints.
• Xia Ping sensed that Gaia Space’s abundant energy benefited its cultivators and that observing its laws could help him understand martial arts divine abilities.

Xia Ping returned to the Green Sun Secret Realm and found Qingyang City flourishing under Gu Bo’s leadership. At the City Lord’s Mansion, he learned that the nine passages to the hell world had expanded and stronger Nether Ghosts and demons were entering, leaving the city’s leaders fearing for humanity’s survival.

• Xia Ping flew into the Green Sun Secret Realm and secretly surveyed the prosperous, heavily populated Qingyang City.
• Xia Ping walked through the city and saw refugees arriving from across the realm, drawn by Qingyang City’s reputation as a safe haven.
• Xia Ping went to the City Lord’s Mansion and concealed himself among Gu Bo and the city’s other leaders.
• Gu Bo reported that the nine spatial passages to the hell world had expanded and that stronger Nether Ghosts and demons were already entering.
• The generals questioned how humanity could survive a stronger invasion, while Gu Bo and the others fell silent in fear.

Qingyang City’s leaders argued over whether to contact their absent City Lord as Nether Ghosts and demons threatened their homeland. Xia Ping returned to the City Lord’s Mansion and revealed himself, leaving the generals stunned and the city with its founder back at the helm.

• A general urged Qingyang City to resist the approaching Nether Ghosts and demons, while another declared that defeat was inevitable.
• The generals discussed contacting Xia Ping, but Gu Bo admitted they had not completed the task Xia Ping had left behind.
• Chang Yongbo argued that Xia Ping could not stop the invaders and urged the city to prepare for battle instead of relying on him.
• Gu Bo defended Xia Ping and warned Chang Yongbo and his faction not to insult the City Lord.
• Xia Ping appeared in the City Lord’s Mansion and sat on the throne, shocking the generals until Gu Bo and the old guard recognized him.
• Xia Ping praised Gu Bo for building up Qingyang City and avoiding major trouble.

Xia Ping returned to Qingyang City and stripped Chang Yongbo of his position, then killed him when he led an attack. Chang Yongbo was revealed to be a powerful Nether Ghost, which Xia Ping immediately destroyed.

• Xia Ping praised Gu Bo and the others, then ordered Chang Yongbo to give up his position and return to civilian life.
• A subordinate defended Chang Yongbo, so Xia Ping struck him down with a glance and declared that Qingyang City's people had to obey him or die.
• Chang Yongbo accused Xia Ping of being possessed by a Nether Ghost and urged his followers to attack, then struck at Xia Ping with a Golden Core-level saber technique.
• Xia Ping killed Chang Yongbo with a sigh, and a Nether Ghost emerged from his remains.
• The Nether Ghost threatened Xia Ping, but he shattered it with a single grab.

Xia Ping discovered the Nether Ghosts infiltrating Qingyang City and effortlessly killed them, leaving the city's generals in awe of his power. The city was safe for the moment, but the Nether Ghosts warned that their army was on its way.

• Gu Bo and the others watched Xia Ping crush a Nether Ghost and were stunned by the difference between his strength and theirs.
• Xia Ping sensed other Nether Ghosts hiding throughout Qingyang City and forced ten of them to reveal themselves, including three possessing commanders in the City Lord's Mansion.
• The Nether Ghosts tried to flee and threatened Xia Ping with the arrival of their army, but he froze the city and shattered all ten.
• Xia Ping absorbed the Nether Ghosts' remaining soul energy and stored it as Soul Crystals in the Mountain River Bead.
• The generals of Qingyang City praised Xia Ping's strength and became even more reverent toward him.

Xia Ping learned that a huge demon and Nether Ghost army was advancing on Qingyang City, then left to face it alone. As the army approached, its leaders argued over whether the humans were weak or hiding an unexpected strength, and the Nether Ghosts began to explain their suspicions.

• Gu Bo told Xia Ping that the spatial passage had expanded and that Nether Ghosts and demons were gathering to destroy Qingyang City.
• Xia Ping sensed an army of more than thirty million approaching and said he would wipe it out himself.
• Xia Ping vanished before Gu Bo and the other generals could stop him, leaving them to trust in his confidence.
• A Burning Demon mocked the Nether Ghosts for gathering intelligence, while a cautious Nether Ghost warned that the humans had already wiped out powerful Nether Ghosts.
• A Bull-Horn Demon asked what the Nether Ghosts had discovered, and one of them said the humans were strange.

The Nether Ghosts and demons suspected that humans from a higher plane had helped Qingyang City and planned to exploit their invasion as a path to that world. As their army prepared to attack, eight stone steles trapped them in a powerful sealing formation.

• A Nether Ghost told Bull-Horn Demon and the other demons that Qingyang City’s rapid construction and unfamiliar restriction formations suggested help from a higher human plane.
• The Nether Ghosts explained that they had gathered their forces to defeat the humans and capture anyone from the higher plane to discover the passage between worlds.
• The Nether Ghosts revealed that ten of their kind had infiltrated Qingyang City, possessed members of its upper ranks, and planned to cause chaos during the attack.
• The demons and Nether Ghosts set out to invade, discussing whether to slaughter the humans or keep them as a food supply.
• Eight stone steles appeared around the army and formed a sealing barrier that trapped the Nether Ghosts and demons.

Xia Ping trapped the Nether Ghost and demon armies inside a barrier formed by eight demon-sealing Saint artifacts. He then unleashed the Star-Slaying Sword, killing countless fiends and leaving the surviving invaders facing a deadly assault.

• Xia Ping appeared before the invading Nether Ghosts and demons and activated the Mystic Moon and Crimson Sun Demon-Sealing Steles to form a Taiji barrier.
• The Nether Ghosts tried to escape through the void but crashed into the barrier, while the demons’ combined attack also failed to break through.
• A Nether Ghost blamed the demons for rushing into the humans’ trap, but the Burning Demon urged the armies to cooperate and destroy the formation.
• Xia Ping drew on the stars’ power through the Star-Slaying Sword and sent countless beams of starlight raining down on the fiends.
• The starlight pierced and dismembered countless fiends of different cultivation realms.

Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to kill every Nether Ghost and demon trapped in the barrier, then strengthened Qingyang City's defenses before entering the passage to the hell world. He left the city protected by upgraded formations and began his journey into hell.

• Xia Ping summoned the Spear of Hell, whose hellish light slaughtered all the Nether Ghosts in the barrier.
• Xia Ping absorbed the dead enemies' soul energy into Soul Crystals and concluded he needed to enter the hell world to gather enough energy to unseal the Samsara Pen.
• Xia Ping spent several days upgrading Qingyang City's three restriction formations to defend against powerful Nether Ghosts and demons.
• Xia Ping returned to the mountain where the Formless Ghost King had been and entered the Darkness Space passage to the hell world.

Xia Ping crossed the spatial passage into Flame Hell, where its energy strengthened his Hell Golden Crow Cells. After subduing nearby demons with an illusion, he learned that he had entered the Rock Territory, one of nine domains in Flame Hell, and that countless other hell worlds existed.

• Xia Ping sensed that the spatial passage was temporarily reinforced by restriction formations and decided to enter the hell world before destroying them.
• Xia Ping arrived on a barren, blood-red plain in Flame Hell and absorbed its energy as his Hell Golden Crow Cells began awakening.
• A squad of demons spotted Xia Ping, and he trapped them in an illusion with the True Explanation of Illusion Arts.
• Xia Ping questioned the demons and learned that he was in the Rock Territory, ruled by the Rock Lord.
• The demons told Xia Ping that Flame Hell had nine lords at Immortal level and was only one of countless small hell worlds.

Xia Ping learned how demons traveled between hell planes and that Flame Hell's lords frequently went to war. He disguised himself as a Burning Demon and headed for Rock City to join the Rock Lord's army, leaving the robbed soldiers behind to blame an unseen thief.

• Xia Ping learned that demons could travel between hell planes through a passage controlled by the nine lords or risk the deadly void, and that the lords often fought one another.
• Xia Ping decided to disguise himself as a demon and enlist in an army so he could devour soul energy amid the wars without drawing attention.
• Xia Ping used the Formless Mask to transform into a Burning Demon and chose to join the Rock Lord's army in Rock City.
• Xia Ping looted the demons' Space Rings, taking a hundred thousand Nether Stones and other treasures, then left without killing them.
• The demon soldiers awoke, failed to remember seeing a human, and erupted in anger when they discovered their wealth was gone.

Xia Ping reached Rock City and attracted the greed of its gate guards after displaying a pile of Nether Stones. The guards accused him of looting Rock City soldiers and attacked when he tried to leave.

• Xia Ping arrived at Rock City after traveling across the desolate landscape of Flame Hell.
• A gate guard demanded an entrance fee, and Xia Ping scattered more than a thousand Nether Stones before the soldiers and waiting demons.
• Xia Ping said he had found the Nether Stones and treasures on the bodies of demons who had died fighting.
• Demon Soldier B falsely accused Xia Ping of looting Rock City soldiers and demanded all his possessions.
• Xia Ping put away the Nether Stones and tried to leave, but the guards surrounded him and lunged at him with spears.

Xia Ping effortlessly killed the demon soldiers who attacked him at Rock City’s gate, triggering an alarm and bringing the city guards and a Bull-Horn Demon commander to confront him. The chapter ended with Xia Ping blocking the commander’s mighty axe strike without injury.

• The demon soldiers’ spears shattered against Xia Ping, and he swatted their combined attack back at them, killing them against the city wall.
• Xia Ping questioned whether killing the soldiers counted as a crime, while another soldier sounded the alarm and summoned the city guards.
• The surrounding demons fled as elite soldiers gathered, and a Bull-Horn Demon commander arrived and accused Xia Ping of being a spy.
• The Bull-Horn Demon commander and his soldiers attacked Xia Ping with a massive axe strike and a grand formation.
• Xia Ping blocked the commander’s axe with one hand and redirected its force into the ground, leaving the commander stunned.

Xia Ping burned through the demon soldiers and killed the Bull-Horn Demon after they attacked him. Black Lion Demon, one of Rock City's commanders, arrived and confronted Xia Ping.

• Xia Ping engulfed the demon soldiers in flames, killing many and scattering the rest.
• The Bull-Horn Demon attacked Xia Ping with its axe, but Xia Ping pierced its chest with a flame and killed it.
• Xia Ping mocked the Bull-Horn Demon's weakness, angering the surviving soldiers.
• Black Lion Demon appeared and the soldiers knelt before him, identifying him as a powerful commander of Rock City.
• Black Lion Demon accused Xia Ping of despising Rock City's demons.