Recaps

News that Fengdu had killed the Early Ancient Saint Cassio spread across the Storm Sea, and many races began targeting him. At Storm Island, Human Race Saints learned that access to Fengdu’s battle footage required the authority of a Human Race Ancestor, leaving his strength and background a mystery.

• Saints across the Storm Sea debated Fengdu’s identity, with some suspecting he was Xia Ping and others believing he was an unknown Human Race genius.
• Saints from other races developed killing intent toward Fengdu after learning he had been placed on their blacklists.
• Human Race Saints at Storm Island celebrated Cassio’s death and recalled how he had bullied Immortal Saints.
• A Human Race Saint deduced that Fengdu had been confident enough to face Cassio without sending a distress signal.
• A Middle Ancient Saint tried to view Fengdu’s battle footage but discovered that only someone with the authority of a Human Race Ancestor could access it.

Xia Ping’s battle victory drew attention from Human Race patriarchs preparing to enter the Dark Forbidden Zone, while he parted ways with his teammates aboard the Dripping Water. He left in the Star Ship, heading into space alone.

• Carefree Patriarch, Void Patriarch, and North Nether Saint discussed Xia Ping’s feat of killing an Early Ancient Saint and kept the battle recording restricted.
• Carefree Patriarch announced that the Human Race patriarchs were ready to begin their expedition to the Dark Forbidden Zone, and North Nether Saint stressed their preparations and the risks.
• Dripping Water Saint, Dark Fire Saint, and Golden Wind Saint questioned Xia Ping about his strength after the battle.
• Xia Ping told the three Saints he would leave their team, and they agreed to part ways and seek another team after returning to Storm Island.
• Xia Ping said he would not return to Storm Island for now, bid his teammates farewell, boarded the Star Ship, and flew into space.

While sailing through the Storm Sea, Xia Ping assessed the loot from the Element Race Saints he had killed and learned about Origin Stones. After Cat Immortal described the resource-rich but dangerous Thunder Sea Region, Xia Ping chose it as their next destination.

• The system awarded Xia Ping fifty Hate Crystals for incurring the Element Race's hatred, bringing his total to 1,050.
• Xia Ping inventoried the pills, refining materials, Saint artifacts, and roughly two hundred Origin Stones recovered from Cassio and the other Element Race Saints.
• Cat Immortal and Green Ox explained that Origin Stones helped Saints cultivate and comprehend universal laws, making them valuable and scarce.
• Cat Immortal showed Xia Ping a map of the Strange District and described the Thunder Sea Region and its contested, resource-rich Thunder Continent.
• Xia Ping ordered the Star Ship to head for the Thunder Sea Region, and Cat Immortal estimated the journey would take three months.

Xia Ping discovered that the World Tree could devour Saint corpses and turn the spatial laws within Cassio into a Spatial Fruit. After consuming it, he gained spatial energy and insight but decided he needed more fruits to advance further in the Thunder Sea Region.

• Xia Ping sensed the World Tree’s desire to devour Saint corpses and fed it the corpses of numerous Element Race Saints.
• The World Tree consumed Cassio’s body and absorbed the spatial law fragments within it, growing thousands of meters taller.
• The World Tree formed a Spatial Fruit from Cassio’s spatial energy and laws, and Xia Ping learned that it could help someone comprehend spatial laws and develop a Spatial Body.
• Xia Ping ate the Spatial Fruit and gained spatial energy, strengthened cells, and greater comprehension of spatial laws.
• Xia Ping found the fruit’s benefits insufficient for his deep foundation and resolved to kill more Early Ancient Saints in the Thunder Sea Region to obtain more Spatial Fruits.

After arriving in the Thunder Sea Region, Xia Ping encountered a Human Race squad trapped in a losing battle against Demon Race saints. He answered Saint Yunyang’s distress signal and flew toward the battlefield, eager to kill the demon saints and claim their corpses.

• Xia Ping reached the Thunder Sea Region aboard the Star Ship after three months of travel and advanced to the peak of the Immortal Realm.
• Xia Ping and Cat Immortal observed the region’s powerful storms and learned that Thunder Continent was about three days away.
• Xia Ping sensed a Human Race squad fighting a stronger Demon Race squad on a nameless island.
• Saint Yunyang broadcast a distress signal after the Demon Race ambushed his squad and injured several Immortal Saints.
• Xia Ping saw that he was the only nearby saint strong enough to help and flew from the Star Ship toward the battle.

Human Race Saints were trapped by three Early Ancient Demon Saints on a remote island after being lured there with false news of an Origin Stone vein. Just as the Demon Saints prepared to finish them off, Xia Ping arrived, leaving the battle poised to turn.

• Human Race Saints realized the supposed Origin Stone vein was a Demon Race trap and that the sealed battlefield left them no escape.
• The Demon Saints urged the Human Race Saints to surrender, but Saint Yunyang and the others refused and claimed reinforcements were coming.
• The Demon Saints decided to use their full strength to kill the Human Race Saints before help could arrive.
• Xia Ping descended into the center of the battlefield, and Saint Yunyang and the Human Race Saints rejoiced while the Demon Saints reacted in shock.

Xia Ping arrived on the battlefield, where both the Human and Demon Saints mistook his Immortal Realm cultivation for a hopeless liability. He unleashed a vast illusion domain that knocked out the Immortal Demon Saints and trapped the three Early Ancient Saints, who began fighting to break free and kill him.

• Saint Yunyang and the Human Saints despaired when they sensed that Xia Ping was only an Immortal, while the Demon Saints celebrated his arrival as no threat.
• Xia Ping assessed the Celestial Wolf Clan's three Early Ancient Saints and their forces, then activated the True Explanation of Illusion Arts and the Myriad Nightmare Art.
• Xia Ping's soul pressure spread across an area forty light-years wide, overwhelming the battlefield with an illusion domain.
• The Immortal Demon Saints collapsed unconscious, while the three Celestial Wolf Clan Early Ancient Saints were drawn into an illusion of grasslands and mountains.
• The three Early Ancient Saints recognized the illusion, fought to break free, and resolved to kill Xia Ping before he could destroy them.

Xia Ping used his illusion domain and Hell Golden Crow Claw to kill three Early Ancient Saints of the Celestial Wolf Clan, then devoured them and the remaining Immortal demon saints. His victories earned him 1.75 billion points, and he concluded that only Middle Ancient Saints with time domains could likely resist his method.

• Xia Ping slowed the three Early Ancient Saints of the Celestial Wolf Clan with his illusion domain and crushed them with his Hell Golden Crow Claw.
• The World Tree devoured the three demon saints and produced three powerful Spatial Fruits.
• Xia Ping killed thirteen unconscious or sleeping peak Immortal demon saints and stored their corpses as fertilizer for the World Tree.
• The Cosmic Virtual Network awarded Xia Ping 1.75 billion points, bringing his total to 2.2 billion, and Cat Immortal and Green Ox celebrated the windfall.
• Xia Ping judged that his approach could defeat most foreign saints, though Middle Ancient Saints with time domains might resist it.

Xia Ping rescued Saint Yunyang, Saint Xingxuan, and the other Human Race Saints by swiftly killing three Early Ancient demon saints and thirteen Immortal demon saints. He concealed his identity and left, while the survivors reflected on their loss and the Human Race’s growing advantage in the Thunder Sea Region.

• Xia Ping killed the three Early Ancient demon saints and thirteen Immortal demon saints, saving the Human Race Saints from defeat.
• Saint Yunyang and Saint Xingxuan thanked Xia Ping, but he declined their invitation to stay and concealed his identity before leaving.
• Saint Xingxuan urged Saint Yunyang to respect Xia Ping’s wish for secrecy, and the two speculated about who he might be.
• Saint Yunyang and Saint Xingxuan recognized that the Celestial Wolf Clan’s losses had weakened the Demon Race’s position in the Thunder Sea Region.

Human Race Saints learned that Saint Yunyang and the others had been rescued by a mysterious Saint, who killed three Early Ancient Demon Saints and thirteen Immortal Demon Saints. At Purple Demon City, the Demon Saints mourned their losses and approved an immediate plan to eradicate the Human Race’s forces in the Thunder Sea Region.

• Human Race Saints received news that Saint Yunyang and the others had been rescued and that three Early Ancient Demon Saints and thirteen Immortal Demon Saints had been slain.
• Human Race Saints celebrated the losses dealt to the Demon Race and speculated that their mysterious rescuer came from another sea region.
• Demon Saints at Purple Demon City learned that their carefully prepared ambush had failed and blamed the unknown Human Race Saint for ruining their plan.
• A Middle Ancient Demon Saint declared that the Demon Race would carry out its plan to eradicate the Human Race’s forces in the Thunder Sea Region.
• The Middle Ancient Demon Saint said the ancestors had approved the plan, and the other Demon Saints agreed to carry it out immediately.

Xia Ping arrived at Thunder City, the Human Race’s vast stronghold on Thunder Continent, and explored its streets and customs. After learning about the city’s mortal population and military-point economy, he bought a villa and followed a butler robot toward his new residence.

• Xia Ping piloted the Star Ship to Thunder City, where it passed an identity and genetic scan before he entered.
• Xia Ping saw the many Saints and mortals living in Thunder City and asked Cat Immortal why so many mortals were there.
• Cat Immortal explained that Lightning Tribulation Realm cultivators and Saints had settled in the Strange District and had descendants there.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that Human Race military points were the city’s hard currency and that a villa cost about a hundred thousand points.
• Cat Immortal bought Xia Ping Villa No. 7 in Sea Wave Residential Complex, and the XBN007 Butler Robot arrived to guide him there.

Xia Ping settled into his secure villa in Thunder City and browsed the Hall of Saints’ exchange list for ways to strengthen his Star Ship and Chaos Bell. He exchanged for Earth Soul Mithril and considered two costly ores for the Chaos Bell.

• Xia Ping took control of Villa No. 7 and activated its formidable defenses before relaxing in its hot spring.
• Cat Immortal explained that Earth Soul Mithril could help the Star Ship resist soul attacks, and Xia Ping exchanged 300 million points for enough to upgrade it.
• Green Ox recommended Soul-Scattering Iron and Spirit-Loss Copper to give the Chaos Bell the ability to release Soul-Scattering Light.
• Xia Ping learned that the two Chaos Bell materials would cost 600 million points.

Over three months, Xia Ping upgraded the Star Ship and Chaos Bell with rare materials, turning both into high-grade saint artifacts. Just as he admired their new power, Luna contacted him from Flame Hell with news of a newly discovered hell plane.

• Xia Ping received Earth Soul Mithril, Soul-Scattering Iron, and Spirit-Loss Copper from the Hall of Saints and spent three months refining his artifacts.
• Xia Ping fused Earth Soul Mithril into the Star Ship, raising it to a high-grade saint artifact with enhanced stealth, defense, and attack power.
• Xia Ping added Soul-Scattering Iron and Spirit-Loss Copper to the Chaos Bell, transforming it into a high-grade saint artifact that unleashed devastating soul attacks.
• Luna telepathically told Xia Ping that she had found a new hell plane in Flame Hell.

Xia Ping returned to Burning Hell and learned that Luna had advanced to the Immortal Realm by conquering three small hell planes. After taking the origins she had preserved for him, he awakened enough Hell Golden Crow Cells to reach ten billion.

• Xia Ping returned to Burning Hell and saw that Luna had reached the Immortal Realm.
• Luna explained that her Corpse Insect Clone bloodline ability had helped her discover and conquer three hell planes, where she killed nine immortal demons.
• Luna gave Xia Ping the origins of the three hell planes she had conquered.
• Xia Ping absorbed the three hell origins, and his awakened Hell Golden Crow Cells reached ten billion.

After his Hell Golden Crow Cells reached ten billion, Xia Ping transformed and awakened the Underworld God Demon Curse, a bloodline ability that could control demons with weak souls. Burning Hell then fused with three other hell planes and ascended, drawing tribulation clouds across its sky.

• Xia Ping’s transformation spread the Hell Golden Crow’s light throughout Burning Hell, inspiring demons to worship him and strengthening their bloodlines and souls.
• Xia Ping’s blood turned dark gold, and he awakened the Underworld God Demon Curse, which could control countless demons with weak souls and kill them with Hellfire if they betrayed him.
• The three hell planes Luna had destroyed were drawn into Burning Hell and fused with it, more than doubling its size and increasing its energy and resources.
• Burning Hell’s natives rejoiced as the plane’s ascension boosted their power and loosened their cultivation bottlenecks.
• Xia Ping sensed that a heavenly tribulation was coming as tribulation clouds covered Burning Hell.

Xia Ping faced the hundred and eight layers of Xin Metal Tribulation Lightning triggered after Burning Hell advanced. He absorbed and refined the lightning, filling his mana, Purple Mansion spaces, and spatialized cells as the hellish creatures watched from afar.

• Demons and Nether Ghosts across Burning Hell recognized the deadly Xin Metal Tribulation Lightning and feared it might destroy their world.
• Xia Ping calmly identified the hundred and eight layers of lightning, then sent Luna a million kilometers away to keep her safe.
• The tribulation clouds unleashed thousands of golden lightning bolts, and Xia Ping formed a vast Kunpeng Domain to contain them.
• Xia Ping refined the lightning’s power with the Sun Furnace, filling his mana and nine Purple Mansion spaces before the energy poured into his spatialized cells.
• Demons, Nether Ghosts, fiends, and other creatures watched as Xia Ping endured and devoured the tribulation lightning to strengthen himself.

Xia Ping consumed three Spatial Fruits while absorbing the Xin Metal Tribulation Lightning, spatializing 35% of his cells and enduring seven days of lightning tribulation. After the storm ended, his Hell Golden Crow Cells had awakened in great numbers, and a mysterious bloodline power began spreading across the Burning Hell.

• Xia Ping swallowed three Spatial Fruits refined from slain Celestial Wolf Clan demon saints, greatly deepening his understanding of spatial laws.
• The fruits spatialized 35% of Xia Ping’s cells, giving his body an immense hunger for energy and the power of a black hole.
• Xia Ping flew into the tribulation clouds and absorbed the Xin Metal Tribulation Lightning as it struck him.
• The 108 layers of lightning tribulation lasted seven days and transformed the surrounding region into a vast Golden Lightning Sea.
• After the tribulation ended, Xia Ping discovered that thirteen billion Hell Golden Crow Cells had awakened and his bloodline had grown denser.
• Xia Ping sensed a mysterious bloodline power spreading throughout the Burning Hell and entering every hell creature.

A mysterious power swept through Burning Hell, causing nearby demons to mutate and grow far stronger. The demons realized the changes were bloodline erosion, which let a rock demon break through its racial limits.

• A demonic wolf grew larger, gained flaming wings, and unleashed a destructive hurricane.
• A water demon lion mutated, gaining black wings and red scales as its roar and flames devastated the surrounding land.
• A rock demon gained golden fire power, broke through its bloodline limits, and became a Golden Rock Demon.
• Nether ghosts developed Nether Ghostfire and froze everything around them with an icy storm.
• An ancient demon recognized the widespread mutations as bloodline erosion.

An ancient demon explained that Xia Ping’s Gods and Devils bloodline could transform nearby demons and raise their potential, convincing Burning Hell’s inhabitants that he was their destined ruler. Over five or six days, demons and Nether Ghosts across Burning Hell mutated and gathered around his Royal Palace, leaving him surrounded by fiercely loyal followers.

• The ancient demon told the other demons that Gods and Devils bloodlines could erode nearby creatures, make them kin, and break the limits of their bloodlines.
• The ancient demon declared Xia Ping a true Gods and Devils Descendant and urged the demons to approach him for a chance to change their destinies.
• Over five or six days, demons and Nether Ghosts throughout Burning Hell developed new forms and powers as their bloodlines transformed.
• Burning Hell’s demons grew stronger and rushed toward Xia Ping’s Royal Palace, where they crowded the outskirts as loyal guards.

Xia Ping investigated how his awakened Hell Golden Crow Bloodline unconsciously eroded everything around him and learned from the system that this power was a defining trait of divine beast bloodlines. He remained in Burning Hell to control the influence, while speculating that Tania’s research into Dragon Blood might have led to her exile.

• Xia Ping realized his dense Hell Golden Crow Bloodline could transform nearby creatures into dependents and affect humans, plants, and lifeless objects across Burning Hell.
• Xia Ping asked the system about the bloodline’s effects, and it explained that divine beasts could erode other beings and create dependent races.
• The system described how the Ancestral Dragon’s bloodline produced draconic creatures and explained that bloodline erosion, rather than reproduction alone, accounted for their numbers.
• Xia Ping recalled Tania’s research into Dragon Blood creatures and wondered whether she was studying the mysteries of divine beast bloodlines.
• Xia Ping speculated that Tania’s research might have crossed a taboo and caused her expulsion and pursuit, but acknowledged that he did not know the truth.

After Xia Ping gained control of his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline, he set out with Luna for Scorched Earth Hell to hunt Early Ancient demons and advance his cultivation. Their Star Ship withstood hell monsoons and a Soul-Devouring Storm, leaving them able to continue their journey.

• Xia Ping's bloodline transformed the demons of Burning Hell into his retainers, and nine peak Lightning Tribulation Realm demons advanced to the early Immortal Realm.
• Xia Ping asked Luna about a new hell plane, and she reported that Scorched Earth Hell was nearby, much larger than Burning Hell, and home to Early Ancient demons.
• Xia Ping and Luna departed Burning Hell aboard the Star Ship and entered the dangerous void between hell planes.
• Hell monsoons battered the Star Ship, but its defenses and the Thousand-Star Vine protected and repaired it.
• A Soul-Devouring Storm engulfed the Star Ship, but its Earth Soul Mithril surface blocked the attack.

Xia Ping and Luna encountered a swarm of Void Monsters pursuing a damaged spacecraft in Hell’s void. The fleeing demons steered their ship toward Xia Ping’s Star Ship, hoping to use it as a scapegoat, while Xia Ping prepared to face them.

• Xia Ping sensed killing intent in the void as a damaged black spacecraft raced toward his Star Ship, pursued by thousands of Void Monsters.
• Luna identified the creatures as nearly indestructible monsters driven by instincts to slaughter and devour, and described their threat to travelers in Hell’s void.
• Xia Ping suspected Luna’s creation might be connected to the Void Monsters and chose not to avoid the approaching spacecraft or its pursuers.
• The demons aboard the black spacecraft panicked as the Void Monsters closed in and spotted Xia Ping’s unfamiliar Star Ship ahead.
• An Ancient demon urged the others to steer toward Xia Ping’s ship and use it to distract the monsters so they could escape.

Ancient Demon Presco tried to force Xia Ping to shield its ship from pursuing Void Monsters, but Xia Ping refused and revealed the Star Ship’s true form as the enormous Thousand-Star Vine. Presco and the demons were trapped alongside the Void Monsters, leaving them terrified of their new enemy.

• Ancient Demon Presco called Xia Ping and offered treasure in exchange for rescue from the pursuing Void Monsters.
• Xia Ping refused and warned Presco not to bring the monsters near his ship.
• Presco threatened Xia Ping and ordered him to block the Void Monsters while the demons escaped.
• Xia Ping activated the Star Ship, transforming it into the gigantic Thousand-Star Vine that engulfed the demons and Void Monsters.
• Presco and the Immortal Demons panicked after realizing they had provoked a foe more terrifying than the monsters chasing them.

Xia Ping used the Thousand-Star Vine to crush Presco and the other demons, then tore apart a swarm of Void Monsters. The Void Monsters began regenerating, and Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to examine what they really were.

• Xia Ping ordered the Thousand-Star Vine to ensnare and crush the immortal demons and ancient demons, including Presco, killing their bodies and souls.
• Xia Ping collected the demons' remains and gave them to the World Tree to devour.
• Xia Ping ordered the Thousand-Star Vine to attack the approaching Void Monsters, shredding more than a thousand of them into pieces.
• Xia Ping saw the Void Monsters' scattered remains wriggling and beginning to regenerate.
• Xia Ping activated the Hell Golden Crow Eye and peered into the Void Monsters' bodies and souls.

Xia Ping discovered that Void Monsters could regenerate their bodies and souls unless they were completely destroyed by Hell Golden Crow Flame. After he burned them away, the World Tree consumed the dark matter they left behind and began to grow rapidly.

• Xia Ping realized that Void Monsters were chaotic soul-aggregates that could regenerate unless their souls were completely annihilated.
• The surviving Void Monsters fused into a smaller, stronger group, and Xia Ping concluded that only Hell Golden Crow Flame could kill them.
• Xia Ping attacked the Void Monsters with a Hell Golden Crow Claw, and its flames consumed them and their souls.
• The burned Void Monsters left behind dark matter that the World Tree identified as exceptionally potent fertilizer.
• Xia Ping let the World Tree absorb the dark matter, and it grew as deeper world runes appeared in its leaves.