Recaps

Xia Ping discovered that the saints behind the Forty Bandits Alliance were absent from Bandit Star and followed the Wish Compass to the hidden Earth Mother Stone. In a concealed plane, five Immortal Demons began activating a sacrificial altar to open a passage to the Abyss World and unleash an invasion.

• Xia Ping found no saints on Bandit Star and suspected they were hiding near the Earth Mother Stone.
• Xia Ping traversed space to the stone's location and found a hidden plane containing the Earth Mother Stone and a sacrificial altar.
• Five Immortal Demons dismissed the pirates' deaths and revealed that the Forty Bandits Alliance was their tool for gathering resources and intelligence.
• The Immortal Demons explained that they planned to summon an Abyss Demon army and conquer the universe in revenge for their defeat in the Ancient Era.
• A bull-horned Immortal Demon ordered the others to activate the altar, and they began chanting as demonic energy filled the plane.

Xia Ping entered a hidden minor world where five Immortal demons were using an altar to summon the Abyss, and he spotted the Earth Mother Stone. When one demon attacked him with the Heaven-Hating Sword, Xia Ping absorbed the strike with his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.

• The five Immortal demons offered treasures to the Abyss and began opening a passage through their altar.
• Xia Ping broke into the minor world and saw the Earth Mother Stone, exciting the Golden Slime around his wrist.
• Xia Ping recognized the five demons as possible forces behind the Forty Bandits Alliance, while they decided to kill him to protect their secret.
• An Immortal demon attacked Xia Ping with the Abyss Divine Ability—Heaven-Hating Sword.
• Xia Ping blocked and swallowed the sword's demonic energy and hatred with his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, leaving the demon stunned.

Xia Ping faced several Abyss Demons and countered their divine abilities with his Sun Furnace. After his flames burned the demonic vines and evaporated the Black Jellyfish River, a snake-headed demon attacked him from behind.

• Xia Ping praised an immortal demon’s sword strike, angering it by implying he could judge and outmatch immortal-level demons.
• An azure immortal demon summoned a forest of black vines to cage Xia Ping while a fish-headed demon unleashed the Black Jellyfish River.
• Xia Ping formed a Sun Furnace whose Hell Golden Crow flames burned the vines and evaporated the river.
• A snake-headed immortal demon transformed into a giant burning serpent and lunged at Xia Ping from behind.

Xia Ping held off five immortal demons while the Golden Slime devoured the Earth Mother Stone at the altar. With the sacrifice gone, the altar shattered and the attempt to summon the will of the abyss failed.

• Xia Ping repelled attacks from a serpent-headed immortal demon and a bronze-colored immortal demon, injuring both.
• Xia Ping mocked the five immortal demons and kept them occupied with the Myriad Stars Yin-Yang Scripture.
• The Golden Slime secretly approached the altar and began devouring the Earth Mother Stone on Xia Ping's orders.
• The immortal demons noticed the Golden Slime and tried to stop it, but Xia Ping blocked their way.
• The Golden Slime swallowed the Earth Mother Stone, causing the will of the abyss to recede and the altar to shatter.

The five immortal demons attempted to seize the Earth Mother Stone, but the Golden Slime swallowed it and Xia Ping rescued the creature. Enraged, the demons used the Abyss Sealing Technique against Xia Ping, who answered by drawing the Samsara Pen and attacking them.

• The Golden Slime swallowed the Earth Mother Stone, and Xia Ping called it back into the Mountain River Bead's space.
• Xia Ping stunned the five immortal demons with the Mourning Staff, letting the Golden Slime escape their attack.
• The five immortal demons burned their blood essence and souls, then invoked the abyssal will to unleash the Abyss Sealing Technique on Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping sensed the threat of the abyssal chains, took out the Samsara Pen, and directed its power at the five immortal demons.

Xia Ping defeated the five immortal demons, captured them as nourishment for the World Tree, and claimed their small-world lair and its riches. He left the Golden Slime to devour the stored materials and headed to Bandit Star to loot the pirate planets.

• Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to shatter the Abyssal chains and badly injure the five immortal demons.
• The demons tried to flee, but Xia Ping pierced them with the Samsara Pen and crippled their combat strength.
• Xia Ping sent World Tree roots into the five demons and dragged them away to be drained as nourishment.
• Xia Ping claimed the demons' small world and ordered the Golden Slime to eat the materials stored there.
• Xia Ping left the Golden Slime behind and headed to Bandit Star to loot the pirate planets.

Xia Ping robbed the Black Cat Pirate Crew’s treasury at Bandit Star and revealed that he had killed the five Saints who backed the Forty Bandits Alliance. He left the pirates stunned and helpless after identifying himself as Wu Wudi.

• Xia Ping broke into the Black Cat Pirate Crew’s vault and drove off the pirates trying to stop him.
• Xia Ping dismissed the pirates’ protests, saying he was robbing the rich to aid the poor, and sent them flying with a gust of wind.
• Xia Ping showed the pirates the five Saints’ heads and said he had wiped out the ancestors who protected the Forty Bandits Alliance.
• Pirates who approached the heads were pierced by their killing intent, confirming the Saints were dead.
• Xia Ping finished plundering the vault, challenged the pirates to consider how their victims felt, and named himself Wu Wudi.

After the pirates recognized Xia Ping as the infamous Wu Wudi, they surrendered and welcomed him rather than resist. Xia Ping looted the Forty Bandits Alliance so thoroughly that the pirates wept with relief when he finally left.

• Pirates identified Xia Ping as Wu Wudi and recounted his enormous bounties, brutal crimes, and attacks on powerful forces.
• The pirates saw the five bloody ancestral heads and realized their Immortal Saint backers had been killed, so they gave up resisting.
• Xia Ping claimed the accusations against him were false, and the terrified pirates agreed with him.
• Xia Ping continued looting the Forty Bandits Alliance, whose pirates prepared their treasures for him wherever he went.
• Xia Ping left after exhausting the Alliance's wealth, and the pirates tearfully watched him go.

News spread that Wu Wudi had destroyed the Forty Bandits Alliance and killed the five Saints supporting it, forcing factions across the universe to reconsider how they would deal with him. After the pirates fled their abandoned starfield, three human Saints arrived at Bandit Star and identified the five severed heads as those of Abyss Demonic Beasts.

• Word spread that Wu Wudi had destroyed the Forty Bandits Alliance and killed its five Immortal Saints, and people across the universe reacted with shock.
• Major factions suspected Immortal Gaia had helped Wu Wudi and ordered their spies to gather intelligence without provoking him.
• The pirates abandoned the Alliance’s thirty thousand planets and scattered across the universe after Xia Ping left.
• Three human Saints arrived on Bandit Star and found that the five heads were protected by expanding immortal killing intent.
• A human Saint recognized the heads as belonging to Abyss Demonic Beasts disguised as Saints and expressed hatred toward them.

Three Saints discovered that the Forty Bandits Alliance’s five Immortal Saints were Abyss Demons and found their destroyed altar, then reported the threat to the Abyss World. The Abyss leaders learned that Wu Wudi had foiled their plan and ordered demons across the universe to hunt him.

• The three Saints examined the five severed heads and sensed that Wu Wudi had suppressed the Abyss Demons before their heads were destroyed.
• The black-robed Saint opened a spatial gate, and the three Saints found the remains of an Abyss altar built to create a permanent passage into the universe.
• The three Saints sealed the starfield, then left to report the altar and search for Wu Wudi.
• The Abyss Demons learned that Sailaida and the others had failed and that Wu Wudi had destroyed their plan.
• The three-thousand-eyed figure calmed the demons and ordered their agents throughout the universe to capture Wu Wudi and bring him to the Abyss.

Xia Ping sorted the pirates’ spoils and discovered a Sound Pattern Stone that could help the Chaos Bell evolve. Ruth then nervously asked whether the Lord was with him, leaving Xia Ping puzzled about what she meant.

• Xia Ping received eighty Hate Crystals for angering pirates and Abyss Demons, bringing his total to seven hundred.
• Xia Ping inventoried the pirates’ herbs, pills, and magical treasures, then found a Sound Pattern Stone among them.
• Xia Ping learned that Sound Pattern Stones came from Demonic Sound Mountain and realized the stone could give the Chaos Bell soul-damaging power.
• Xia Ping considered using the Wish Compass to find more Sound Pattern Stones, but he had only obtained one.
• Qiu Xue and Su Mei brought Ruth to Xia Ping, and Ruth asked whether the Lord was with him before becoming flustered by his confusion.

Xia Ping revealed the World Tree to Qiu Xue, Su Mei, and Ruth, who received its blessing and explained the Treant Race’s crisis. Xia Ping agreed to visit the Treant Race and see whether he could save their dying Sacred Tree.

• Xia Ping summoned the World Tree, stunning Qiu Xue and Su Mei and filling Ruth with devotion.
• The World Tree blessed Ruth, increasing her strength and forming a mysterious spiritual connection with Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping learned from the system that the Treant Race served the World Tree and could help it grow.
• Ruth told Xia Ping that the Treant Race’s Sacred Tree had been dying for hundreds of millions of years and that her people had searched for the World Tree to save it.
• Ruth offered to make the Treant Race Xia Ping’s vassal if he saved their Sacred Tree, and Xia Ping agreed to see it.

Ruth told Xia Ping that the Treant Race lived in the wandering Tree World and that Elder Rich on Red Soil Star could help them return. She revealed that her parents had survived by turning into seeds, then Xia Ping decided to keep the rescued slave girls as laborers and carried Qiu Xue and Su Mei off as they protested.

• Ruth explained that the Treant Race's sacred tree was the moving body of the Tree World and that Elder Rich could locate it.
• Ruth told Xia Ping that Elder Rich was on Red Soil Star, and Xia Ping decided to seek him out the next day.
• Ruth revealed that her parents had turned into seeds to survive and could be resurrected near the sacred tree, though Treants could use the ability only three times.
• Ruth went to rest, and Xia Ping said he would keep the rescued slave girls to work planting spirit herbs and spirit grain.
• Xia Ping seized Qiu Xue and Su Mei and carried them off while they shouted at him to let go.

Xia Ping and Ruth arrived at Red Soil Star and headed to Red Earth City to look for Elder Rich. At the city gates, they witnessed Wu Wudi bluff his way past the entry fee by claiming to be the infamous wanted criminal, while the terrified guards and bystanders believed him.

• Xia Ping and Ruth reached Red Soil Star, and Ruth said Elder Rich was working as an alchemist in Red Earth City.
• Xia Ping brought Ruth to the heavily guarded commercial city, where she warned him about the dangers and criminal groups there.
• A blue-clad young man argued with the gate soldiers over Red Earth City's hundred-coin entry fee.
• The young man claimed to be Wu Wudi, and the crowd and soldiers mistook him for the notorious wanted criminal who had destroyed the Forty Bandits Alliance and killed five Saints.
• City captains waived the fee, and the impostor strutted into Red Earth City while Xia Ping watched in silence.

Xia Ping entered Red Earth City with Ruth and discovered that a young man from the Illusion Race was impersonating him to intimidate and swindle locals. He became interested in finding the Illusion Race’s hidden lair and its accumulated wealth.

• Xia Ping entered Red Earth City with Ruth and surveyed its bustling streets and shops.
• Xia Ping spotted a blue-clad young man posing as Wu Wudi and bullying an artifact shop owner.
• The impostor forced the shop owner to surrender hundreds of artifacts for a tiny payment by threatening him and the surrounding crowd.
• Xia Ping saw through the young man’s false aura and recognized that he was using an illusion technique to impersonate Wu Wudi.
• Green Ox explained that the young man might belong to the notorious Illusion Race, which used transformations to swindle others and evade capture.
• Xia Ping grew interested in finding the Illusion Race’s lair and claiming its wealth.

A group of Illusion Race impostors disguised themselves as Wu Wudi to extort shops across Red Earth City, then planned to flee before they were exposed. Xia Ping caught them as they tried to escape and seized the group and their Sound Pattern Stones.

• The Illusion Race impostors, led by a blue-clad man, forced small shopkeepers to sell their goods for one coin while onlookers blamed the real Wu Wudi.
• Several hours later, the blue-clad man ordered his subordinates to change identities and leave Red Earth City before anyone discovered their fraud.
• Xia Ping appeared before the group and confronted them for using his identity to rob merchants and ruin his reputation.
• The blue-clad man released a Mist Ball and used Sound Pattern Stones to stun Xia Ping, but Xia Ping swallowed the mist and shattered the sound waves.
• Xia Ping knocked the impostors unconscious, seized them, and vanished from the street with the Sound Pattern Stones.

Xia Ping captured Bati and his Illusion Race companions, learned the location of their race’s lair and its Sound Pattern Stones, then returned to Red Earth City. He left with Ruth to find Rich, the Treant Race elder.

• Bati and the others woke in the Mountain River Bead space and discovered that Xia Ping had captured them.
• Xia Ping forced the group to reveal that they were Illusion Race members who had impersonated him, and learned that Bati was a noble descendant.
• Bati said the Illusion Race treasury held more Sound Pattern Stones, but he and his companions refused to reveal their lair’s location.
• Xia Ping used divine consciousness to place Bati and the others in an illusion, and Bati revealed that the lair was in a secret realm northeast of the Southern Universe.
• Xia Ping sent Bati and the others into a deep sleep, returned to Red Earth City, and asked Ruth to take him to Rich’s pill shop.
• Ruth led Xia Ping toward Rich’s location in the southern district of Red Earth City.

Xia Ping and Ruth visited Rich's Pill Shop, where Elder Rich learned that Ruth had found the Lord and received the Lord's blessing. Liu Zhengguang arrived, challenged Rich over his treatment of Xia Ping, and attacked Xia Ping with a spiritual impact that had no effect.

• Ruth brought Xia Ping to Rich's Pill Shop and told Elder Rich that her parents had been attacked by pirates and turned into seeds.
• Ruth secretly told Elder Rich that Xia Ping had signed a contract with the Lord, and Rich recognized the Lord's blessing within her.
• Elder Rich closed the shop and ordered the customers to leave so he could attend to the discovery.
• Liu Zhengguang arrived with powerful members of the Liu Family and demanded to know why Rich had closed the shop early.
• Liu Zhengguang targeted Xia Ping with a spiritual attack, but Xia Ping was unaffected, prompting Liu Zhengguang to grow more suspicious and hostile.

Xia Ping confronted Liu Zhengguang after the Liu Family elder threatened Treant Race alchemist Rich and attacked Xia Ping. Xia Ping defeated Liu Zhengguang and his men, who fled, leaving the Liu Family’s promised retaliation unresolved.

• Liu Zhengguang tried to persuade Rich to join the Liu Family and threatened him when Rich refused.
• Xia Ping challenged Liu Zhengguang over his attack and secret injury, but Liu Zhengguang claimed the Liu Family ruled Red Earth City and struck at him.
• Xia Ping pierced Liu Zhengguang’s Six Extremes Shadowless Hand with a finger and grievously injured him.
• Xia Ping swept away the Liu Family subordinates who rushed to seize him, leaving them badly injured.
• Liu Zhengguang and his men fled, warning Xia Ping that the Liu Family would not let him go.

After Xia Ping defeated Liu Zhengguang’s group, Rich warned him that the Liu Family ancestor, Liu Xiong, was a dangerous Immortal Saint. Xia Ping agreed to leave Red Soil Star, while Liu Xiong plotted to capture them once they departed.

• Rich warned Xia Ping that offending Liu Xiong could bring the Liu Family’s vengeance, but Xia Ping said he could kill the Immortal Saint.
• Rich advised Xia Ping to leave Red Soil Star before confronting Liu Xiong, and Xia Ping agreed.
• Liu Zhengguang returned to Liu Xiong and complained that Rich and Xia Ping had beaten his group and refused to join the Liu Family.
• Liu Xiong revealed that he needed Rich to refine a Saint-grade pill that could give him a chance to become an Early Ancient Saint.
• Liu Xiong said he could not attack on Red Soil Star because of the Saint Covenant, but ordered his family to watch Rich and Xia Ping and planned to capture them if they left.

After Xia Ping, Rich, and Ruth left Red Earth City aboard a Star Ship, Liu Xiong trapped them in the void with his Dark Baleful Net. Xia Ping left the ship to confront Liu Xiong, who attacked him with the Ten Thousand Demons Profound Yin Fist.

• Rich, Ruth, and Xia Ping departed Red Earth City aboard the Star Ship, and Rich said he needed several days to locate Tree World through the Sacred Tree.
• Liu Xiong appeared, sealed the surrounding void, and demanded that Rich submit to him for fleeing with Xia Ping.
• Liu Xiong revealed his Dark Baleful Net and spread it across space to prevent the Star Ship from escaping.
• Xia Ping left the Star Ship to face Liu Xiong, shocking Rich and enraging the ancestor of the Liu Family.
• Liu Xiong unleashed the Ten Thousand Demons Profound Yin Fist, summoning tens of thousands of freezing demons toward Xia Ping.

Xia Ping overwhelmed Liu Xiong, breaking his attacks and damaging his Dark Baleful Net. Liu Xiong struck back with the Thunder-Extinguishing Hammer, but Xia Ping’s Hell Worlds absorbed its power, leaving Liu Xiong shocked and unable to break through.

• Xia Ping shattered Liu Xiong’s Ten Thousand Demons Profound Yin Fist with a single finger and blasted him into an uninhabited planet.
• Liu Xiong used the Dark Baleful Net to trap Xia Ping, but Xia Ping’s Spear of Hell tore the net apart and injured its artifact spirit.
• Furious over the damage to his treasure, Liu Xiong summoned the Thunder-Extinguishing Hammer and unleashed its full power against Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping created multiple Hell Worlds with the Spear of Hell’s Third Form, Creation, and they absorbed Liu Xiong’s lightning without damage.
• Liu Xiong screamed in disbelief when his Thunder-Extinguishing Hammer failed to break Xia Ping’s divine ability.

Xia Ping overwhelmed Liu Xiong with hell power and stopped him from escaping. As Liu Xiong tried to self-destruct, Xia Ping killed him with the Spear of Hell.

• Xia Ping battered Liu Xiong with hell worlds and forced the injured Immortal Saint to flee.
• Liu Xiong used Formless Shadow Escape Art, but Xia Ping struck him with the Spear of Hell’s fourth form and dragged him out of the void.
• Liu Xiong split into multiple shadows to escape, but Xia Ping sealed the surrounding void and forced him back into one body.
• Liu Xiong began to self-destruct along with his two low-grade saint artifacts, prompting Green Ox to warn Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping pierced Liu Xiong with the Spear of Hell before he could detonate, destroying his body and soul.

Xia Ping killed Liu Xiong, an Immortal Saint, and claimed his Saint artifacts and other treasures before leaving the starfield. The Immortal Saints who had considered ambushing him held back, then moved to divide the Liu Family’s territory and wealth.

• Rich watched Xia Ping kill Liu Xiong and struggled to believe that a Lightning Tribulation Realm cultivator had defeated an Immortal Saint.
• Xia Ping collected Liu Xiong’s Dark Baleful Net, Thunder-Extinguishing Hammer, and spatial treasure, then sensed hidden enemies and returned to the Star Ship.
• The lurking Immortal Saints watched Xia Ping depart and discussed how fortunate they had been not to attack him.
• The elders identified Xia Ping as Wu Wudi and blamed Liu Xiong for provoking him.
• The Immortal Saints agreed to split the Liu Family’s holdings among their families, and the Liu Family fell apart amid bloodshed.

After refining two low-grade Saint artifacts and consuming Immortal Fruits, Xia Ping grew closer to the peak of the Lightning Tribulation Realm. Golden Slime began its tribulation to advance into a Saint artifact and withstood the Geng Metal Lightning without harm.

• Xia Ping completely refined the Thunder-Extinguishing Hammer and the Dark Baleful Net, while Immortal Fruits greatly increased his mana.
• Xia Ping sensed that Golden Slime had finished evolving after devouring the Earth Mother Stone and went to its secluded valley.
• A Geng Metal Lightning artifact tribulation appeared as Golden Slime prepared to advance into a Saint artifact.
• Green Ox explained the artifact tribulation, and Xia Ping withdrew to watch from a safe distance.
• Tens of thousands of metal weapons formed from lightning struck Golden Slime, but it drew on earth's energy and remained unharmed as the lightning tempered it.