Chapter Summaries

After rejecting the underworld organizations’ low offers for the King Realm Secret Manual and Nine-Turn Foundation Pill, Xia Ping faced a sniper ambush as he tested Black Moon Tower’s boundary. Black Moon Tower retaliated with purple lightning, destroying the attackers’ building and killing the Blood Hand Organization members while Liu Lie escaped.

• The underworld organizations offered Xia Ping no more than five hundred million for the King Realm Secret Manual and Nine-Turn Foundation Pill, and he rejected their bids and threats.
• Xia Ping stepped toward the edge of Black Moon Tower’s territory, where hidden snipers fired at him, but he dodged their shots.
• Xia Ping spotted Liu Lie on a distant rooftop with three men who had tried to assassinate him.
• Black Moon Tower warned that anyone attacking within its territory would be killed and unleashed purple lightning on the snipers and Blood Hand Organization members.
• A Martial Artist Sixth Heaven Realm expert grabbed Liu Lie and escaped the lightning, while the attack destroyed the building and left a huge crater.

Xia Ping found that the Black Moon Tower’s weapons had stopped Liu Lie’s attack and kept everyone inside its territory safe. Surrounded by thousands of underworld figures demanding his treasures, Xia Ping chose to stay in the tower and wait for a chance to act.

• The Black Moon Tower’s weapons killed Liu Lie’s snipers, and the underworld figures criticized Liu Lie for provoking danger within the tower’s territory.
• Liu Lie grew furious over his failed ambush and the loss of Blood Hand Organization elites.
• Xia Ping searched for a way out but found every route from the Black Moon Tower guarded by the city’s underworld organizations.
• Xia Ping returned to the tower and decided to stay in its costly rooms rather than leave under the watch of the surrounding forces.
• On surveillance, Gu Peng observed Xia Ping’s predicament and wondered how he planned to escape.

Xia Ping spent several weeks training at Black Moon Tower while black-market figures watched for him to leave and grew increasingly frustrated by his taunts. With the College Entrance Exam just over a week away, he decided it was time to leave Black Moon City.

• Xia Ping stayed at Black Moon Tower to train, using its facilities and Martial Dao Simulation Space.
• Black-market figures kept watch outside the tower, complaining that Xia Ping could afford to remain there for years.
• Xia Ping repeatedly taunted the watchers from inside the tower, and they accused him of hiding because he feared them.
• The black-market figures discussed stealing Xia Ping's King Realm Secret Manual and extracting the medicinal power of his Nine-Turn Foundation Pill.
• After four or five weeks at Black Moon Tower, Xia Ping opened his eyes in a sealed training room and decided to leave Black Moon City.

After more than a month of training in Black Moon Tower, Xia Ping advanced to the Second Heaven of Martial Artist Realm and mastered part of the Kunpeng Step. Having mapped the forces surrounding Black Moon Tower, he prepared to leave Black Moon City and strike back at the gangs, starting with Liu Lie.

• Xia Ping broke through to the Second Heaven of Martial Artist Realm and demonstrated his increased power by destroying a stone statue from twenty meters away.
• Xia Ping tested the Kunpeng Step, using its true-qi wings to move so quickly that he left afterimages throughout the training room.
• Xia Ping practiced until he controlled his new strength and speed, leaving the training room damaged.
• Xia Ping decided to leave Black Moon City and attack the four gangs targeting him: the Blood Hand Organization, the Black Bear Company, the Fierce Tiger Organization, and the Poison Wolf Organization.
• Xia Ping vowed to kill Liu Lie for trying to snipe him and strode out of the training room.

Black Bear Company’s elites continued watching Black Moon Tower, determined to seize Xia Ping’s King Realm Secret Manual. After poisoned food crippled them, a black projectile killed an underling before he could alert headquarters.

• Dai An insisted that the Black Bear Company keep watch on Black Moon Tower until Xia Ping came out.
• The elites agreed that they would wait as long as necessary to obtain the King Realm Secret Manual and punish Xia Ping.
• A group delivered food, and Dai An and the gathered elites ate the monster-meat dishes.
• The elites began suffering agonizing pain as the poison took effect, despite their earlier checks of the food.
• An underling tried to contact headquarters, but a streak of black light struck his head and killed him.

Xia Ping revealed himself as Desolate after poisoning the Black Bear Company’s men and killing several of them. He defeated Supervisor Dai An with a swift punch, leaving the surviving gangsters facing him while weakened by poison.

• The poison took effect, killing several Black Bear Company martial artists and leaving the others in pain.
• Xia Ping emerged from the rubble after Dai An’s attack and was recognized as Desolate.
• Xia Ping admitted he had destroyed the Black Bear Company building, killed its people, and poisoned the group.
• Dai An attacked Xia Ping, but Xia Ping used Kunpeng Step to evade the punch and strike Dai An from behind.
• Dai An died from his injuries and the poison after crashing into a wall.

Xia Ping poisoned and killed the Black Bear Company's elite, then took their weapons and bombs before escaping. News of the massacre and Desolate's disappearance spread among the other gangs, and Liu Lie's Communicator rang as their leaders searched for him.

• Xia Ping used Ice Crystal Jellyfish Poison and stones to kill the Black Bear Company's elite, including Dai An.
• Xia Ping gathered the Black Bear Company's weapons and bombs and escaped across the rooftops.
• Black Bear Company members found the bodies and reported the massacre.
• The Blood Hand Organization, Fierce Tiger Organization, and Poison Wolf Organization learned that the Black Bear Company's elite had been killed and Desolate had disappeared from the Black Moon Tower.
• The three gang leaders panicked over Desolate's escape, and Liu Lie's Communicator rang.

Xia Ping contacted Liu Lie and threatened the Blood Hand Organization before killing three of its elites with a stone launched from five kilometers away. The organization located Xia Ping watching from a nearby rooftop, and Liu Lie faced the frightening reach of someone who had passed the Nightmare-level Trial.

• Xia Ping called Liu Lie and warned that the Blood Hand Organization would pay for trying to assassinate him.
• Liu Lie and the gathered elites mocked Xia Ping, believing he was too weak to threaten them.
• Xia Ping launched a blazing stone through the conference-room window, killing three Blood Hand Organization elites and narrowly missing Liu Lie.
• Xia Ping called the attack a greeting and hung up, enraging Liu Lie.
• A subordinate tracked Xia Ping's signal to a rooftop five kilometers away, shocking the Blood Hand Organization with his range.

After escaping Black Moon Tower and killing three Blood Hand Organization elites, Desolate became the target of a citywide manhunt as the gangs of Black Moon City joined forces against him. At the airport, Gu Peng realized the situation had become a deadly feud and considered intervening if Desolate was in danger.

• Liu Lie rallied the Blood Hand Organization's elites and ordered them to enlist the Poison Wolf and Fierce Tiger Organizations to hunt Desolate.
• The Poison Wolf and Fierce Tiger Organizations sent out their elites, and gangs across Black Moon City began searching for Desolate and ordered his death on sight.
• Residents discussed Desolate's escape, his attack on three Blood Hand elites, and the gangs' efforts to prevent him from leaving the city.
• Gu Peng heard the news at the airport, recognized that Desolate had turned a minor matter into a fight to the death, and considered rescuing him if necessary.

Xia Ping confronted a group of Fierce Tiger Organization elites who had come to hunt him in a warehouse. He killed them all with two forms of the Ten Thousand Beasts Fist, leaving the warehouse in ruins.

• A dozen elite members of the Fierce Tiger Organization searched the warehouse for Xia Ping and boasted that they could easily defeat him.
• Xia Ping appeared and challenged the group to attack him.
• A Third Heaven fighter in a red tank top lunged at Xia Ping, who killed him with the first form of the Ten Thousand Beasts Fist, Violent Ape Hammer.
• The remaining elites charged Xia Ping together, and he unleashed the second form, Lion's Roar.
• Xia Ping's roar killed the remaining elites and shattered much of the warehouse.

Xia Ping killed Fierce Tiger Organization elites at a warehouse and escaped before their reinforcements arrived. As the gangs mobilized to hunt him, he ambushed a Poison Wolf Organization gathering and killed one of its members.

• Xia Ping killed the Fierce Tiger Organization elites at the warehouse and sensed approaching enemies with his spiritual sense.
• Xia Ping used the Kunpeng Step to escape before dozens of Fierce Tiger Organization elites arrived.
• The Fierce Tiger Organization leader found the dead and ordered every member to search Black Moon City and kill Desolate on sight.
• Poison Wolf Organization elites discussed Xia Ping’s attacks and dismissed the chance that he would target them.
• Xia Ping killed a Poison Wolf Organization elite with a stone from a nearby rooftop, and the others threatened him.

Xia Ping slaughtered the Poison Wolf Organization’s fighters and left the name “Killer: Desolate” at the scene. Enraged, the three underworld organizations moved to join forces against him.

• Xia Ping killed most of the Poison Wolf Organization’s elite with his Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art as they attacked him.
• Xia Ping cut down the survivors trying to flee, then carved “Killer: Desolate” into the ground and left.
• The Poison Wolf Organization’s reinforcements found the bodies and vowed to avenge their dead by killing Desolate.
• The Poison Wolf Organization’s boss ordered contact with the Fierce Tiger Organization and the Blood Hand Organization.
• The Fierce Tiger Organization and the Blood Hand Organization agreed to cooperate with the Poison Wolf Organization to hunt Desolate.

Xia Ping lured the three major gangs into joining forces and hunting him, then appeared to flee into an abandoned warehouse surrounded by their elites. The gangs believed they had trapped him, while Xia Ping warned them not to push him too far.

• News spread through Black Moon City that the Fierce Tiger Organization, the Poison Wolf Organization, and the Blood Hand Organization had united to kill Desolate.
• The three gangs formed more than a dozen teams led by powerful experts, and their coordinated patrols stopped Xia Ping's ambushes.
• The gang teams spotted Xia Ping apparently fleeing, and Chen Guohua attacked him while Liu Lie and Lv Xing taunted and urged him to surrender.
• Xia Ping dodged Chen Guohua's strike with the Kunpeng Step and continued leading the gangs toward an abandoned warehouse.
• The gang elites surrounded Xia Ping inside the warehouse and declared that he had no chance to escape.

Xia Ping was surrounded by the three major gang organizations at an abandoned warehouse, but he used a Cloud Mist Fruit to escape their encirclement. He detonated explosives beneath the warehouse, killing the fighters caught at the center of the blast.

• Liu Lie and the gang members jeered at Xia Ping and demanded that he kneel, believing they had him trapped.
• Xia Ping smashed a Cloud Mist Fruit, shrouding the warehouse and its surroundings in mist that blocked sight and mental perception.
• Xia Ping used a countermeasure to navigate the mist and fled beyond its three-kilometer radius with the Kunpeng Step.
• Xia Ping pressed a remote control and detonated more than a thousand tons of explosives buried beneath the warehouse.
• The explosion destroyed the warehouse and tore apart the elite fighters from the three organizations caught at its center.

Xia Ping watched the warehouse explosion and discovered that Liu Lie, Lv Xing, and Chen Guohua had survived with the help of protective gear. He killed Lv Xing and Chen Guohua with the Rending Bear Hand, while Liu Lie fled.

• Xia Ping saw Liu Lie, Lv Xing, and Chen Guohua emerge alive from the explosion, protected by Powered Armor and Protective Suits.
• Lv Xing and Chen Guohua charged at Xia Ping in a rage, despite their severe injuries.
• Xia Ping struck them with the Rending Bear Hand, crushing their bodies and killing them.
• Liu Lie realized Xia Ping was stronger than him and ran away.

Liu Lie fled through Black Moon City in his Powered Armor while Xia Ping pursued him, but Liu Lie sought refuge at a Blood Hand Organization nightclub. Xia Ping killed the guards who attacked him, and Liu Lie ordered hidden snipers to fire as Xia Ping closed in.

• Liu Lie used his Powered Armor's escape function to flee, but Xia Ping chased him with Kunpeng Step and struck him with a punch.
• Liu Lie reached a Blood Hand Organization nightclub and ordered its guards to shoot Xia Ping.
• The nightclub guards fired Laser Firearms, and Xia Ping dodged their shots until another group wounded him through his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.
• Xia Ping used the Lion's Roar technique to kill the guards and damage the nightclub, then threatened to kill Liu Lie.
• Liu Lie called on hidden snipers, and five or six shots tore toward Xia Ping from nearby high-rises.

Xia Ping killed Liu Lie’s three snipers and caught Liu Lie as he tried to escape. He rejected Liu Lie’s offer of wealth and killed him with a single palm strike.

• Xia Ping sensed three snipers firing at him and retreated while Liu Lie fled from the nightclub.
• Xia Ping ripped steel bars from a wall and hurled one across the distance, killing the eastern sniper.
• Xia Ping threw two more steel bars and killed the remaining snipers.
• Xia Ping pinned Liu Lie to a wall with another steel bar as Liu Lie begged for his life and offered the Blood Hand Organization’s wealth.
• Xia Ping ignored Liu Lie’s offer and shattered his skull with a palm strike.

After Xia Ping killed Liu Lie and destroyed the elite forces of Black Moon City's gangs, the city erupted and the gangs launched a manhunt for him. Xia Ping reached the airport, gained over 235,000 Hate Points, and continued toward Giant Corporation's trial.

• Xia Ping rejected Liu Lie's offer of ten billion in Blood Hand Organization wealth and left Black Moon City for the airport.
• News of Xia Ping's attack spread, and residents were shocked by the gangs' heavy losses and Liu Lie's public death.
• Liu Gang ordered Blood Hand Organization to hunt Xia Ping, investigate his identity and family, and kill them all if they found him.
• Blood Hand Organization, Fierce Tiger Organization, Poison Wolf Organization, and Black Bear Company jointly placed a bounty on Xia Ping and declared a citywide manhunt.
• At the airport, Xia Ping received 235,763 Hate Points and decided to set them aside until he finished Giant Corporation's trial.

Xia Ping passed the Giant Corporation Trial and officially joined the organization, receiving a villa, money, and access to its internal network. Elder Fang ordered Grandmaster Realm experts to protect Xia Ping and his family as the corporation began cultivating him as a future powerhouse.

• Gu Peng congratulated Xia Ping on passing the trial and praised him for escaping Black Moon City’s Four Great Gangs and killing the Blood Hand Organization Crown Prince.
• Xia Ping signed the contract accepting a villa in Jiangnan District and a hundred million Federal Coins as his reward.
• Gu Peng gave Xia Ping a black employee card with access to the Giant Corporation’s internal network and warned him about the competition and political pressures within the organization.
• Gu Peng advised Xia Ping to enter Yanhuang University, gain training resources, and focus on becoming stronger.
• After Xia Ping went to rest, Gu Peng reported his success to Elder Fang, who ordered Grandmaster Realm experts in Tianshui City to protect Xia Ping’s family around the clock.

Xia Ping explored the Giant Corporation’s internal network and used his membership privileges to buy pills for his cultivation. As his spacecraft arrived in Tianshui City, he resolved to rely less on the Super Hatred System and grow stronger independently.

• Xia Ping logged into the Giant Corporation’s internal network and browsed its manuals, weapons, and other restricted goods.
• Xia Ping decided to focus on improving his martial prowess before the College Entrance Exam and chose Bilo Pills suited to his cultivation level.
• Xia Ping bought five Bilo Pills for five hundred million Federal Coins, expecting them to speed his cultivation toward opening his third acupoint.
• Xia Ping considered the network’s costly treasures and resolved to earn more money and become strong without depending entirely on the Super Hatred System.
• The spacecraft announced that it had arrived in Tianshui City.