Recaps

Xia Ping killed the red-robed saint and collected his treasures, prompting Minerva to attack him with the Salvation Divine Blade. Xia Ping used the Golden Greatsword's earth-law power to withstand Minerva's assault, leaving Minerva enraged that his high-grade sacred artifact could not break through.

• Xia Ping killed the red-robed saint and took the Red Dragon Scepter and the saint's flesh and blood.
• Minerva drew the high-grade sacred artifact Salvation Divine Blade and attacked Xia Ping with hundreds of millions of blade energies.
• Sophia recognized Minerva's strength and watched for a chance to intervene, but the blade attack left her unable to approach.
• The Golden Greatsword drew on the Golden Slime's earth-law power, and Xia Ping formed a barrier that stopped Minerva's attack.
• Minerva failed to breach Xia Ping's defense and raged at him for possessing a powerful defensive sacred artifact.

Minerva and Sophia tried to destroy five Saint Artifacts to kill Xia Ping, but he used the Samsara Pen to suppress them and turn the attack against Minerva. Minerva was killed, while Sophia remained alive.

• Sophia urged Minerva to retreat because they were injured and could not kill Xia Ping.
• Minerva refused to flee and brought out three Saint Artifacts, while Sophia summoned two more to self-destruct against Xia Ping.
• Minerva sealed the surrounding space and launched the five Saint Artifacts at Xia Ping as Green Ox and Cat Immortal warned him to be careful.
• Xia Ping produced the Samsara Pen, freezing the area and preventing the Saint Artifacts from self-destructing.
• Xia Ping severed Minerva and Sophia's connections to their Saint Artifacts, then struck Minerva with the Samsara Pen and killed him.

After killing the other four Early Ancient Saints of the Illusion Race, Xia Ping offered Sophia life in exchange for accepting his Soul Seal. Sophia agreed to protect the surviving members of her clan, and Xia Ping enslaved her and prepared to take her into the Mountain River Bead.

• Sophia saw that Minerva had been killed by Xia Ping and realized the Illusion Race had lost four of its five Early Ancient Saints.
• Xia Ping offered Sophia a choice between death and submitting to his Soul Seal.
• Sophia agreed to submit if Xia Ping spared the surviving Lawrence Family members hidden in her spatial artifact.
• Xia Ping agreed to take Sophia and her surviving clanswomen as subordinates, warning them against betrayal.
• Xia Ping implanted the Soul Seal in Sophia, which made her completely loyal to him.
• Xia Ping told Sophia to enter the Mountain River Bead's space.

Across the universe, people celebrated the Illusion Race’s destruction and discussed humanity’s power and the Demon Suppression Tower. They learned Wu Wudi had supplied intelligence that helped bring down the Illusion Race, then looted its treasury, and factions began hunting for him and his treasures.

• People across the universe celebrated the Illusion Race’s extermination and recalled its long history of crimes.
• Speakers discussed how humanity had suppressed Olasge and other Illusion Race saints in the Demon Suppression Tower, which grew stronger by imprisoning criminals.
• A rumor spread that Wu Wudi had provided the humans with intelligence to provoke a war between them and the Illusion Race.
• People learned Wu Wudi had used the battle to loot the Illusion Race treasury, leaving it completely empty.
• Factions across the universe began searching for Wu Wudi, hoping to kill him and seize his treasure.

Major powers across the universe discussed Wu Wudi’s possession of the Curse Black Coffin and resolved that the dangerous treasure should not remain in his hands. In the Abyss World, the demons blamed Wu Wudi for the Illusion Race’s destruction and ordered their forces to find and kill him, while recovering the coffin.

• Saints discussed how Wu Wudi had gained the most from the extermination campaign and warned that he had taken the Illusion Race’s Curse Black Coffin, a weapon capable of killing invincible Saints.
• The Saints agreed to locate Wu Wudi and seize the Curse Black Coffin so they could control its threat.
• Abyss Demons mourned the Illusion Race’s destruction and acknowledged that their leaders had withheld aid to avoid falling into the human race’s trap.
• The Abyss Demons blamed Wu Wudi for exposing the Illusion Race and sabotaging their plans, citing his earlier attacks on Abyss altars as well.
• The Abyss Demons ordered their forces to find and kill Wu Wudi and recover the Curse Black Coffin.

Xia Ping brought Sophia and the surviving Lawrence Family members into the Mountain River Bead space, where he placed them under his control and arranged a home for them. Sophia ordered her descendants to serve Wu Wudi, then left to recover from her injuries.

• Xia Ping assured Green Ox that Sophia could not threaten the Mountain River Bead space because his Soul Seal controlled her.
• Xia Ping told Green Ox to house Sophia and her Illusion Race companions, then entered seclusion.
• Green Ox built a small city in a valley for Sophia and the Illusion Race survivors.
• Sophia released the Lawrence Family women from her spatial treasure and told Emma and the others that she had acknowledged Wu Wudi as her Lord.
• Emma and the others agreed to obey Wu Wudi, while Sophia left to recuperate from her severe injuries.

Xia Ping cultivated with the Longevity Pills he had plundered from the Illusion Race, rapidly increasing his mana and breaking through to the mid-stage Immortal Realm. His divine sense then reached across twenty light-years and gave him a first glimpse of the essence of space.

• Xia Ping learned that the hatred he had provoked earned him 370 Hate Crystals, bringing his total to 970 and leaving him eager to reach the system's 1,000-crystal gift pack.
• Xia Ping swallowed Longevity Pills from the Illusion Race's treasury and refined them with his Sun Furnace into life energy and cosmic origin energy.
• Xia Ping consumed more than 1,000 Longevity Pills, gaining an enormous amount of mana and breaking through to the mid-stage Immortal Realm.
• Xia Ping's nine purple mansion spaces doubled in size, his mana capacity increased more than ninefold, and his divine sense expanded to twenty light-years.
• Xia Ping sensed dimensional spaces and a faint trace of the essence of space, foreseeing that fully comprehending it would greatly increase his strength.

Xia Ping consolidated his mid-stage Immortal Realm cultivation while the Golden Slime absorbed six cosmic gems and transformed into a high-grade sacred artifact. The newly sentient Little Gold took human form, and Xia Ping discovered the powerful abilities she had gained.

• Xia Ping stabilized his cultivation after reaching the mid-stage Immortal Realm, awakening a total of eight billion Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Little Gold finished digesting the six cosmic gems and began evolving beyond the peak of the middle-grade sacred artifact level.
• Xia Ping saw the cosmic laws within Little Gold merge as she broke through to become a high-grade sacred artifact.
• Little Gold transformed from a bracelet into a jeweled little girl and called Xia Ping her master.
• Xia Ping received information about Little Gold's new abilities, including soul devouring, lightning attacks, absolute space, and authority over the sea.

Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu complained about Xia Ping’s rules and their lack of money at school. After Chong Xiaoqian collided with the newly arrived Little Gold, Little Gold offered her an emerald, then produced a huge pile of gemstones when Chong Xiaoqian angrily refused it.

• Tan Menglu and Chong Xiaoqian discussed how they might resist Xia Ping’s control, complaining about school, homework, and their meager pocket money.
• Chong Xiaoqian walked into the classroom doorway and collided with someone, then looked up to find Little Gold standing there.
• Little Gold apologized and offered Chong Xiaoqian a valuable emerald as compensation.
• Chong Xiaoqian rejected the emerald and snapped at Little Gold for flaunting her wealth.
• Little Gold misunderstood and summoned a mountain of gemstones, leaving Chong Xiaoqian, Tan Menglu, and the class stunned.

After Little Gold gave Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu a pile of gemstones, the two befriended her and recruited her to play King's Supremacy. The chapter ended with Little Gold discovering an Explosion Scroll shop item while Chong Xiaoqian lectured her about the game's difficulty.

• Tan Menglu eagerly threw herself onto Little Gold's gemstones, and Chong Xiaoqian accepted them as tribute and forgave her.
• Tan Menglu promised to protect Little Gold at school, while Chong Xiaoqian offered to make her Minister of Finance in her kingdom.
• Tan Menglu invited Little Gold to play King's Supremacy, and Chong Xiaoqian warned her that mastering the game required talent and practice.
• Tan Menglu took Little Gold and Chong Xiaoqian to the teaching building rooftop to skip class and helped Little Gold enter the Virtual World.
• Little Gold struggled to fight monsters, and Chong Xiaoqian explained the game's combat techniques and claimed she had needed two weeks to leave Novice Village.
• Little Gold found a shop selling an Explosion Scroll that could wipe out a group of monsters and help her level up quickly.

Little Gold used a Universal Bank Black Card to buy powerful game items, rapidly clearing the Novice Village and leveling beyond it while Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu watched in disbelief. After warning that the game would become more dangerous outside the village, Chong Xiaoqian saw Little Gold continue spending to overpower monsters and reach level twenty.

• Chong Xiaoqian warned Little Gold that the shop was a costly trap, but Little Gold used Explosion Scrolls to destroy the Novice Village valley's monsters and reach its level cap.
• Little Gold revealed that she had bought a thousand Explosion Scrolls with the Universal Bank Black Card the Lord had given her.
• Tan Menglu explained that the Black Card could draw up to one hundred billion Universal Coins, while Chong Xiaoqian warned that the game became harder and players could attack each other after leaving the Novice Village.
• Little Gold bought powerful equipment from the shop and killed monsters with ease, quickly reaching level twenty.
• Little Gold used Tenfold Experience and Tenfold Money Cards to accelerate her gains, leaving Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu speechless.

After Little Gold effortlessly surpassed Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu in a game by spending heavily on experience boosts, equipment, and mercenaries, the two girls lost their enthusiasm for playing. They vowed to avoid gaming with her again.

• Little Gold left school satisfied after enjoying the game and said she would return the next day.
• Chong Xiaoqian lamented that Little Gold had caught up to their levels in one day despite their months of effort, while Tan Menglu explained that paid boosts and equipment made it possible.
• Chong Xiaoqian described how Little Gold killed Shadow Wolf’s leader and guild members with a few slashes, causing their hard-earned equipment to drop.
• Chong Xiaoqian lost interest in the game, and Tan Menglu blamed Xia Ping for sending Little Gold to cure their gaming addiction.
• Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu decided they would never play games with Little Gold again.

Xia Ping traveled with Treant Race Elder Rich to Tree World after Rich finally located it. There, Xia Ping discovered that the ancient living world had been badly damaged and was being drained by a sinister force.

• Ruth told Xia Ping that Treant Race Elder Rich had found Tree World's location after months of searching.
• Treant Race Elder Rich explained that Tree World had been wandering, possibly to escape enemies, and Xia Ping agreed to take him there aboard the Star Ship.
• After a day of travel, the Star Ship reached Tree World's location three hundred million light-years away.
• Xia Ping saw Tree World’s immense tree-like form and sensed that the World Tree in his sea of consciousness wanted to devour it.
• Xia Ping detected severe damage and a deathly force draining Tree World, and Rich used its power to carry them inside.

Rich returned to Tree World with Xia Ping and told the Treant Race elders that the human could heal the Sacred Tree’s injuries. Great Elder Cecil felt an unusual threat from Xia Ping, while Chief Fred openly doubted Rich’s claim.

• Xia Ping and Rich arrived in Tree World, where Treant Race soldiers surrounded them until Rich revealed his identity.
• Rich summoned an elder-level meeting, and a Treant captain sent word to the clan chief and elders.
• Great Elder Cecil arrived and sensed that the Immortal Realm Xia Ping might pose a threat to him.
• Rich introduced Xia Ping as an honored guest who could heal the Sacred Tree, prompting excitement and skepticism among the Treants.
• Chief Fred challenged Rich’s claim and questioned whether Xia Ping could heal the Sacred Tree.

Xia Ping exposed Chief Fred as a monster disguised as a treant after Fred tried to stop him from approaching the sacred tree. Fred attacked with his Blood-Devouring Jungle, but Xia Ping destroyed it with one punch and blasted Fred apart, leaving a black insect emerging from his head to escape.

• Elder Rich defended Xia Ping’s chance to cure the sacred tree, while Chief Fred accused him of being a deceitful human and threatened him.
• Xia Ping questioned whether Fred was truly a treant and said he could see a monster hidden beneath Fred’s disguise.
• Fred cut Xia Ping off and attacked with his Blood-Devouring Jungle, unleashing branches that could devour flesh and souls.
• Xia Ping struck Fred with the Yang God Fist, incinerating the jungle and blasting Fred’s body apart.
• A black insect emerged from Fred’s head and tried to flee into the void.

Xia Ping exposed the Treant Race patriarch Fred as a Zerg Puppet Bug that had infiltrated the race and leaked its intelligence. Great Elder Cecil killed the bug, and the Treant Race thanked Xia Ping, though the Zerg army was still expected to arrive.

• Cecil trapped the black bug in a spatial cage, and the Treant Race elders recognized it as a Puppet Bug hiding inside Fred's corpse.
• Elder Rich explained that Fred had likely been killed during his earlier journey and replaced by the bug, which had betrayed the Treant Race to the Zerg.
• The Puppet Bug confirmed that it had infiltrated the Treant Race and warned that the Zerg army would soon arrive to destroy them.
• The Puppet Bug demanded to know how Xia Ping had discovered its identity, but Xia Ping refused to explain.
• Cecil killed the Puppet Bug, and the Treant Race elders thanked Xia Ping for exposing the traitor.

Xia Ping revealed that he carried the World Tree, whom the Treant elders worshipped as their Lord, and learned that the Void Banyan Tree was dying from a Wood-Eating Worm. The elders brought Xia Ping to the weakened Sacred Tree, hoping he could save it.

• Elder Rich told Grand Elder Cecil and the other elders that Xia Ping had contracted with The Lord, and Xia summoned a branch of the World Tree to prove it.
• Grand Elder Cecil and the elders recognized the World Tree's power and knelt before Xia Ping.
• Grand Elder Cecil explained that the Zerg had infected the Void Banyan Tree with a Wood-Eating Worm, which had been draining its soul and wood essence for billions of years.
• The elders said removing the worm would require destroying the Sacred Tree's soul, but believed the World Tree could overcome the worm and revive the tree if necessary.
• Grand Elder Cecil led Xia Ping to the heart of Tree World, where he saw the enormous, withered Void Banyan Tree.

A vast insect army led by three Early Ancient Saints advanced toward the Tree World to exterminate the Treant Race and avenge the slain Puppet Bug. Xia Ping discovered Wood-Eating Bugs consuming the Void Banyan Tree’s soul, and the system revealed that his Hell Golden Crow Fire could defeat them.

• Mosquito Daoist ordered the insect army to hurry toward the Tree World after learning that the Treant Race had killed the Puppet Bug.
• The insect army accelerated through space, consuming planets along its route.
• Xia Ping used the World Tree’s roots to enter the Void Banyan Tree’s soul space and found hundreds of Wood-Eating Bugs devouring its soul.
• The system told Xia Ping that his Hell Golden Crow Fire could kill the Wood-Eating Bugs without destroying the Void Banyan Tree.

Xia Ping used Hell Golden Crow Flame to kill the Wood-Eating Worms and restore the Void Banyan Tree. The Treant Race saw their Sacred Tree recover, while Xia Ping gained five million years of mana and awakened more Hell Golden Crow Cells.

• Xia Ping sent Hell Golden Crow Flame into the Void Banyan Tree, reviving its strength and terrifying the Wood-Eating Worms.
• The Hell Golden Crows burned the Wood-Eating Worms to ash while nourishing the Void Banyan Tree and repairing its soul.
• Xia Ping absorbed the Wood-Eating Worms' origin energy, gaining five million years of mana and awakening 8.5 billion Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• The Treant Race elders saw the Sacred Tree's flames restore its vitality and sensed that every Wood-Eating Worm had vanished.
• Elder Cecil realized Xia Ping had saved the Sacred Tree and concluded that his bond with the Lord could benefit the Treant Race.

Xia Ping formed a life contract with the recovering Void Banyan Tree, and the Treant Race swore allegiance to him. Before they could celebrate, an enormous insect race army surrounded the Tree World and sealed off every escape route.

• The Void Banyan Tree recovered some vitality, formed a life contract with Xia Ping, and strengthened the World Tree with its origin power.
• The Treant Race elders, led by Cecil, swore an oath of allegiance to Xia Ping.
• A Treant Race guard warned that the insect race army had arrived outside the Tree World.
• The elders discovered hundreds of millions of insect soldiers had surrounded the Tree World, sealed its escape routes, and brought at least three Early Ancient Saints.

Xia Ping assured Elder Cecil that he could defeat the approaching insect army, and the insects arrived to attack the Tree World. Mosquito Daoist’s Bloodsucking Sting battered the Tree World Barrier, but Cecil’s defenses held.

• Xia Ping told Cecil to distract the three Early Ancient Saints while he dealt with the insect army, and Cecil agreed to fight alongside him.
• Mosquito Daoist, Black Ant Daoist, and Locust True Lord discovered that the Wood-Eating Worms were gone and vowed to destroy the Treant Race.
• Mosquito Daoist attacked the Tree World with its Bloodsucking Sting, a mid-grade Saint Artifact.
• Cecil activated the Tree World’s formations, raising layers of barriers that withstood the Bloodsucking Sting despite severe damage to the world.

Cecil used the Tree World’s formations and the Void Banyan Tree’s roots to hold off the insect army, but Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord’s forces began tearing through the defenses. As the Tree World cracked and its barriers failed, Cecil pleaded with Lord Xia for help.

• Cecil’s sound attack killed swathes of insect soldiers, while Black Ant Daoist summoned immortal Heavenly Demon Ants to devour the Tree World’s barrier.
• Cecil activated the Treant Race’s formations and the Void Banyan Tree’s roots, holding Black Ant Daoist’s ants at bay.
• Mosquito Daoist urged Locust True Lord to join the assault, and Locust True Lord unleashed Disaster Locusts against the Tree World.
• The Disaster Locusts battered the barrier and shattered the Tree World’s formations, roots, and ground as treants panicked.
• Cecil told Lord Xia that he could no longer hold back the three Early Ancient Saints.

Xia Ping used the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art, strengthened with curse power from the Curse Black Coffin, to ambush Locust True Lord and Black Ant Daoist. Both Early Ancient Saints were struck and began suffering from the curse as the insect army and Mosquito Daoist realized they had been attacked.

• Xia Ping waited until the three insect Saints lowered their guard, then condensed two Curse Daggers with the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art.
• Xia Ping infused the daggers with curse power from the Curse Black Coffin, making them powerful enough to threaten Early Ancient Saints.
• Xia Ping launched the daggers at Locust True Lord and Black Ant Daoist, piercing their bodies and souls without warning.
• Locust True Lord screamed in pain and demanded to know who had ambushed it, while the insect soldiers and Mosquito Daoist were stunned.
• Cecil realized Xia Ping was responsible, as Black Ant Daoist struggled against the curse power consuming its soul.

Xia Ping used the Curse Black Coffin’s curse to kill Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord, two Insect Race Early Ancient Saints. Cecil watched their deaths in shock and grew fearful of Xia Ping’s power.

• Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord realized that a powerful curse was corroding their souls and could not be driven out.
• Xia Ping explained that only the Hell Golden Crow’s flames could remove the Curse Black Coffin’s power.
• Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord pleaded, threatened, and struggled, but the curse consumed them and destroyed all their clones.
• Insect Race soldiers recoiled from the two Saints’ remains, fearing the curse would infect them as well.
• Cecil watched from the Tree World, stunned by Xia Ping’s victory and afraid that Xia Ping could kill him just as easily.

Xia Ping and Great Elder Cecil trapped Mosquito Daoist as it tried to flee, and Xia Ping’s Samsara Pen shattered its blood-sea domain and gravely wounded it. Mosquito Daoist surrendered, and Xia Ping stood before it with the Samsara Pen.

• Mosquito Daoist panicked after Locust True Lord and Black Ant Daoist were killed, abandoned the insect army, and tried to escape through space.
• Xia Ping used the Mystic Moon Demon-Sealing Stele and Crimson Sun Demon-Sealing Stele with eight other steles to seal the surrounding space and trap Mosquito Daoist.
• Great Elder Cecil attacked the trapped Mosquito Daoist, which unleashed Boundless Blood Sea and engulfed him in a corrosive Spatial Domain.
• Xia Ping struck Mosquito Daoist from behind with the Samsara Pen, breaking its blood-sea world and tearing through its body.
• Mosquito Daoist surrendered, and Xia Ping stepped before it holding the Samsara Pen.