Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping successfully created a World Tree avatar and learned its powerful abilities, then received news from his Hell Golden Crow avatar about the Demon Race’s plans. After reporting the intelligence to the Human Race, he accepted an invitation from Thunder City's Lord to attend a virtual meeting.

• Xia Ping created a World Tree avatar, whose green appearance initially left him dismayed.
• Xia Ping discovered that the avatar could sense plants and use the divine abilities Withered Wood Rebirth, Eye of Wood, and World Touch.
• Xia Ping received intelligence from his Hell Golden Crow avatar about the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman and the Demon Race’s plan.
• Xia Ping submitted the intelligence to the Human Race, warning that Thunder City could be in danger if the Demon Race succeeded.
• The Human Race higher-ups identified Xia Ping as Fengdu and invited him to a meeting, and he accepted Purple Thunder Saint’s invitation to enter the virtual conference room.

Xia Ping warned Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint that the Demon Race planned to use Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans to consume Thunder Continent’s origin and destroy Thunder City’s defenses. Purple Thunder Saint resolved to launch a surprise war to stop the plan.

• Xia Ping demanded that the other Middle Ancient Saints leave before he shared sensitive intelligence, and Purple Thunder Saint ordered them out.
• Xia Ping told Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint about the Demon Race’s talismans and their plan to consume Thunder Continent’s origin.
• Purple Thunder Saint recognized that the plan explained Thunder Continent’s earthquakes and could leave Thunder City vulnerable to destruction.
• Listening Rain Saint asked how Xia Ping obtained the intelligence, but Xia Ping refused to reveal his source and logged off.
• Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint discussed the threat, and Purple Thunder Saint resolved to launch a surprise war against the Demon Race.

Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint planned to mobilize the Human Race for war while disguising their discovery of Haims City's intelligence. Demon Race agents in Thunder City grew suspicious of Fengdu Saint's report and decided to watch him and the city's intelligence network.

• Listening Rain Saint and Purple Thunder Saint agreed to report the threat to the Human Race's ancestors and prepare for war within a week.
• Listening Rain Saint proposed leaving Fengdu Saint's mission incomplete and spreading rumors that his intelligence was fabricated to mislead Demon Race spies.
• A Middle Ancient Saint told a black shadow that Fengdu Saint might have uncovered Haims City's plans, but the mission's incomplete status left them unsure whether his report was true.
• The black shadow suggested capturing Fengdu Saint, but the Middle Ancient Saint warned that Thunder City's surveillance made such an attempt too dangerous.
• The Middle Ancient Saint threatened to kill Fengdu Saint if he left Thunder City, while the black shadow set out to monitor the city's intelligence networks.

Xia Ping prepared to move his World Tree clone to Haims City so he could seize the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans amid the coming war. When his Hell Golden Crow clone left the city, Leopold mistook it for Wu seeking treasure and pursued him with a band of Immortal Demon Saints, intending to kill him.

• Xia Ping raised his World Tree clone to the peak of the Immortal Realm and decided to send it to Haims City to support his Hell Golden Crow clone.
• Xia Ping sent the World Tree clone out of Thunder City while the Hell Golden Crow clone left Haims City, intending to meet and merge in a secluded mountain range.
• A demon watching the Hell Golden Crow clone reported its departure to Leopold.
• Leopold’s subordinates dismissed Wu as an ignorant native demon, and Leopold decided to pursue and kill him in the wilderness.
• Leopold and more than a dozen Immortal Demon Saints left Haims City to catch up with Wu.

Xia Ping reunited and fused his Hell Golden Crow and World Tree avatars, then faced Leopold and the Starlight Python Demon Saints. He overwhelmed them with a punch and the World Tree’s roots, but an injured python urged the others to keep fighting because they had immortal bodies.

• Xia Ping fused his Hell Golden Crow and World Tree avatars in a valley on Thunder Continent.
• Leopold and more than a dozen Starlight Python Demon Saints surrounded Xia Ping, expecting to kill him without Jerome’s protection.
• Xia Ping shattered one Immortal Starlight Python with a single punch.
• Leopold expanded his Spatial Domain and tried to crush Xia Ping with stellar gravity.
• Xia Ping unleashed World Touch, and the World Tree’s roots pierced the Starlight Pythons and Leopold, grievously injuring them.
• An injured Starlight Python called on the others to fight on, claiming their immortal bodies made them impossible to kill.

Xia Ping killed the Immortal Starlight Pythons and Near-Ancient Demon Saint Leopold who had come to attack him, then collected their bodies and returned to Haims City. The battle drew the attention of nearby Saints, but he left before they arrived.

• Xia Ping killed an Immortal Starlight Python with a single strike of Hell Golden Crow Flame.
• The surviving Immortal Starlight Pythons tried to retreat, but Xia Ping killed them all with streaks of flame.
• Xia Ping killed Near-Ancient Demon Saint Leopold despite Leopold's threats about the Starlight Python Clan.
• Xia Ping collected the Starlight Python corpses and sensed other Saints approaching the battle site.
• Xia Ping flew back to Haims City, using his Demon Saint Palace token to pass without trouble.

After returning to Haims City, Xia Ping secretly explored the Demon Saint Palace and decided to wait for a chance to seize the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans. Meanwhile, Purple Thunder Saint received the supreme-grade sacred artifact Immortal Monument and prepared Thunder City's Saints to march on Haims City.

• Xia Ping returned safely to Haims City and told Bradley he had gone out to clear his head, without revealing that he had slain Leopold.
• Xia Ping used World Touch to probe the Demon Saint Palace, discovered its formidable formations and guards, and decided not to act until an opportunity arose.
• Xia Ping's true body continued cultivating in Thunder City while nurturing his third clone.
• Purple Thunder Saint told Listening Rain Saint that the ancestors had approved support for the war but would not send an Ancient Saint.
• Purple Thunder Saint revealed that the Longevity Patriarch had temporarily lent him the supreme-grade sacred artifact Immortal Monument.
• Listening Rain Saint mobilized Thunder City's Saints to march on Haims City.

The War Horn sounded in Thunder City, ordering every Human Race saint to assemble for war against the Demon Race. Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint killed a Human Race traitor who tried to warn Haims City, then headed to the central square to lead the attack.

• The War Horn rang throughout Thunder City, and the Human Race saints rushed to the central square under compulsory conscription.
• Xia Ping stopped cultivating and went to the central square, eager to join the war against the Demon Race.
• A Middle Ancient Saint and a black shadow realized the Human Race had discovered Haims City's scheme and tried to send a warning there.
• Purple Thunder Saint used the Immortal Monument to destroy the traitor and the black shadow before they could escape.
• Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint left for the central square to assemble the army and march on Haims City.

Haims City's Ancient Demon Saints prepared to use the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans against Thunder City, but the Human Race launched a surprise attack before their plan was complete. The chapter ended with Purple Thunder Saint arriving at Haims City with the Human Race's supreme-grade saint artifact, the Immortal Monument.

• Patrick said the talismans would finish devouring Thunder Continent's origin energy in about a dozen days, allowing the Demon Saints to strike Thunder City.
• Jerome reported that a Human Race army was less than one light-year from Haims City, and Patrick's gathered Demon Saints learned their spies had failed to warn them.
• Randolph suspected the secret plan had been leaked, but Patrick stopped the Demon Saints from arguing and vowed to defend Haims City.
• Randolph spotted Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint above Haims City, serving as the Human Race army's vanguard.
• Patrick noticed the black monument in Purple Thunder Saint's hand, and Randolph identified it as the Immortal Monument, the Human Race ancestor's supreme-grade saint artifact.

Purple Thunder Saint used the Immortal Monument to devastate Haims City before the Demon Race could activate its defenses. City Lord Patrick and the Ancient Demon Saints rushed to retaliate, but the Human Race’s Middle Ancient Saints arrived to meet them, leaving battle imminent.

• City Lord Patrick ordered Haims City’s 180 million Divine Imprisonment Grand Formations activated, but Purple Thunder Saint threw the Immortal Monument before they could stop him.
• The Immortal Monument smashed through Haims City’s defenses, destroying its formations, leveling much of the city, and killing countless demons.
• Furious at the devastation, City Lord Patrick flew out to confront Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint.
• The Ancient Demon Saints followed Patrick out, deciding the Demon Saint Palace’s spacetime formations would keep the altar and its Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans safe.
• Purple Thunder Saint taunted Patrick, claiming the Human Race had infiltrated the Demon Race, as the Human Race’s Middle Ancient Saints arrived to face the Demon forces.
• Patrick cut off Purple Thunder Saint’s taunts and declared that the Human Race Saints would all die.

As the Human and Demon Saints fought away from Haims City, Xia Ping used the opening to infiltrate the Demon Saint Palace and reach the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman. He began seizing the more than two thousand nine hundred talismans, leaving the outcome unclear.

• The Human and Demon Saints began fighting, and Patrick and the other Middle Ancient Saints moved the battle away from Haims City.
• Xia Ping realized the Ancient Demon Saints had left the Demon Saint Palace and used his World Tree avatar to bypass its restrictions.
• Using his knowledge from the Eye of Karma planted on Jerome, Xia Ping avoided the palace's traps and reached the deepest altar.
• Xia Ping examined the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman and recognized the secrets and law comprehension contained in its more than two thousand nine hundred talismans.
• Xia Ping summoned a giant hand to seize the talismans.

Xia Ping overcame the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans’ resistance with his Hell Golden Crow bloodline and seized more than 2,900 of them. Their disappearance triggered the Demon Saint Palace’s defenses, and City Lord Patrick raged at the thief while fighting elsewhere.

• The Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans awakened and unleashed their will to repel Xia Ping’s attempt to take them.
• Xia Ping invoked his Hell Golden Crow bloodline, whose power broke the illusory Ancient Heavenly Dragon and erased the talismans’ spiritual imprints.
• Xia Ping gathered the scattered talismans, completing his collection of all three thousand, but planned to leave the palace before refining them.
• The talismans’ disappearance activated the Demon Saint Palace’s restrictions, alerting the Demon Saints stationed inside.
• City Lord Patrick sensed the theft during battle and vowed vengeance on the thief.

The Demon Race discovered that more than 2,900 Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans had been stolen from the Demon Saint Palace and tried to return to Haims City. Purple Thunder Saint and the Human Race Middle Ancient Saints blocked them, and the two sides resumed fighting.

• The Ancient Demon Saints learned that a thief had stolen their Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans from the Demon Saint Palace and rushed to return to Haims City.
• Listening Rain Saint and the Human Race Middle Ancient Saints learned of the theft, while Purple Thunder Saint suspected Fengdu Saint might be involved.
• Purple Thunder Saint and the other Human Race Middle Ancient Saints blocked the Ancient Demon Saints from leaving the battlefield.
• Patrick threatened Purple Thunder Saint and accused the Human Race of plotting the theft, but Purple Thunder Saint refused to let the Demon Race pass.
• Patrick declared that he would kill the Human Race Saints before hunting down the thief, and the two sides clashed again.

Xia Ping was cornered by over a hundred Demon Saints after stealing more than 2,900 Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans from the Demon Saint Palace. He introduced himself as Wu Wudi, then used his World Tree avatar’s roots to shatter the attackers’ Spatial Domains and badly injure several Near-Ancient Demon Saints.

• Xia Ping realized the Demon Saint Palace’s restriction formations had exposed his location and decided he had to escape with the stolen talismans.
• Over a hundred Demon Saints teleported in, surrounded Xia Ping, and demanded that he surrender the stolen treasures.
• Xia Ping called himself Wu Wudi, but the Demon Saints dismissed him as an obscure nobody and prepared to attack.
• Several Near-Ancient Demon Saints deployed Spatial Domains to seal the area and trap Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping unleashed Divine Ability—World Touch, tearing apart the Spatial Domains and severely injuring the Near-Ancient Demon Saints.

Xia Ping overwhelmed the Demon Saints in the Demon Saint Palace, destroying their restriction formations with Hell Golden Crow Flames and slaughtering most of them with the World Tree’s roots. A few Near-Ancient Demon Saints escaped, while Xia Ping collected the fallen demons’ corpses.

• The Demon Saints tried to activate the palace’s spacetime restriction formations to kill Xia Ping, but he sensed the threat and unleashed his Hell Golden Crow Flames.
• Xia Ping’s flames burned through the restriction formations and killed several Immortal Demon Saints, driving the others to flee.
• The World Tree’s roots pierced and devoured the souls of many Near-Ancient Demon Saints, greatly increasing its power.
• Xia Ping’s World Tree incarnation attacked the fleeing demons, killing more than a hundred Demon Saints while a few Near-Ancient Demon Saints escaped by tearing through the restrictions.
• Xia Ping collected the Demon Saints’ corpses as valuable materials.

Xia Ping stole more than 2,900 Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans and killed over a hundred Demon Saints, but Ancient Demon Saint Jerome returned to the Demon Saint Palace and pursued him. As Xia Ping fled toward the depths of Thunder Continent, the Human Race’s Ancient Saints prepared to press their advantage in the battle.

• Jerome returned to the Demon Saint Palace and discovered that Xia Ping had killed more than a hundred Demon Saints and taken the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans.
• Xia Ping escaped the palace and Haims City using World Touch and his Hell Golden Crow Wings, while Jerome locked onto his soul and the talismans’ spiritual imprints.
• Jerome transformed into a primordial ferocious bird and chased Xia Ping into the depths of Thunder Continent.
• The Human Race’s Ancient Saints noticed Jerome’s escape and Xia Ping’s theft, then resolved to exploit the Demon Race’s weakened position and inflict lasting losses.

Xia Ping fled through the void with the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman while Jerome pursued him, but Jerome used his Ferocious Peng Heaven-and-Earth Net to slow and trap him. Jerome then struck with the Kunpeng Profound Heaven Fist, leaving Xia Ping facing a powerful attack.

• Xia Ping flew through the void on his Hell Golden Crow Wings, keeping ahead of Jerome as they neared the Thunder Sea Region.
• Jerome threatened Xia Ping over the stolen Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman, but Xia Ping argued that taking it had saved the Demon Race from disaster.
• Jerome unleashed his Ferocious Peng Heaven-and-Earth Net, trapping Xia Ping in a spacetime domain that slowed his movement.
• Jerome followed with the Kunpeng Profound Heaven Fist, summoning the power of the primordial Kunpeng and striking at Xia Ping.

Xia Ping arrived as Fengdu and used the Book of Karma to block and reflect Ancient Demon Saint Jerome’s attack, badly injuring him. Jerome fled, but Xia Ping summoned the Samsara Pen and prepared to kill him.

• Xia Ping’s true body appeared before Ancient Demon Saint Jerome to protect the items carried by his clone.
• Xia Ping used the Book of Karma to form a Karmic Barrier that absorbed Jerome’s punch and sent its force back at him.
• Jerome was struck by his reflected attack, suffered severe injuries, and reformed his body with his immortal power.
• Jerome threatened Xia Ping and fled into the depths of space-time using his Kunpeng wings.
• Xia Ping summoned the Samsara Pen and prepared to pursue and kill Jerome.

Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to kill Ancient Demon Saint Jerome, then fled to a remote island to refine three thousand Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans. At Haims City, the Demon Saints realized Jerome was dead and vowed to hunt down Wu Wudi.

• Xia Ping traced causality with the Samsara Pen and killed Ancient Demon Saint Jerome with a strike that destroyed its soul.
• Xia Ping collected Jerome's corpse for the World Tree to refine and escaped, concealing his aura with the Formless Mask.
• Xia Ping reached a secluded island and began refining three thousand Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans to remove the Demon Saints' spiritual imprints.
• The Demon Saints above Haims City sensed that Jerome's aura had vanished and suspected he had been killed.
• City Lord Patrick and Vice City Lord Randolph argued over Jerome's fate, while the Demon Saints blamed Wu Wudi and swore to find him.

The Human Race saints withdrew from Haims City after the Longevity Patriarch warned them that the Demon Race patriarchs were ready to intervene. The devastated Demon Race blamed Wu Wudi for the losses and vowed to hunt him down.

• The Human Race saints celebrated Jerome’s death and prepared to press their attack on Haims City.
• The Longevity Patriarch ordered the Human Race saints to withdraw, warning that further fighting could provoke the Demon Race patriarchs.
• Purple Thunder Saint halted the battle, and the Human Race saints evacuated Haims City after plundering its treasures.
• The Demon Race saints concluded that their patriarchs had negotiated a settlement and mourned the destruction of Haims City and their heavy casualties.
• City Lord Patrick blamed Wu Wudi for stealing the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman and killing Jerome, and the Demon Race saints issued a call to hunt him down.