Chapter Summaries

News of the Human Race’s victory at Haims City spread across the Strange District, along with reports that Wu Wudi had stolen the Demon Race’s Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans and killed Jerome. The Saints of the various races grew wary of Wu Wudi, whose concealment had even thwarted an invincible Demon Saint’s search.

• Saints across the Thunder Continent and Strange District discussed the Human Race’s attack on Haims City and learned that the Demon Race had secretly gathered over 2,900 Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans to threaten the Human Race.
• A Saint explained that the Human Race had discovered the Demon Race’s plan through its spies and broken Haims City’s defenses with the Immortal Monument.
• Saints revealed that Wu Wudi had infiltrated the Demon Saint Palace, stolen the talismans, and killed Jerome when the Middle Ancient Demon Saint pursued him.
• Saints said that an invincible Demon Saint had failed to trace Wu Wudi through time, and they urged their races to guard their treasures against him.

Xia Ping used the system to refine the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans he had stolen, erasing the Demon Saints’ imprints and then removing the far stronger imprint left by Tania. The talismans were left fully under his control.

• The system awarded Xia Ping four hundred Hate Crystals for enraging the Demon Race, bringing his total to one thousand five hundred and eighty.
• Xia Ping used his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline to erase the Ancient Demon Saints’ spiritual imprints from more than two thousand nine hundred Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans.
• The Ancient Demon Saints in Haims City sensed their imprints being destroyed and lost their means of locating the talismans.
• Xia Ping discovered a transparent, powerful imprint left by Tania, an Invincible Saint, and found that his Hell Golden Crow Flame would take over a century to erase it.
• Xia Ping spent one hundred Hate Crystals, and the system instantly removed Tania’s imprint from the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans.

Tania discovered that someone had erased her spiritual imprint from the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans and learned that Wu Wudi had taken them, prompting her to seek him out. After Xia Ping refined all three thousand talismans, their stored Thunder Continent origin power surged into him and brought him to the verge of a breakthrough.

• Tania sensed that her spiritual connection to the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman had been severed and realized her imprint had been erased.
• Tania used a vast information network to identify Wu Wudi as the one who had taken her three thousand talismans, then resolved to find and capture him.
• Xia Ping used the System to erase Tania's imprint and refine all three thousand Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans into a Dragon Pearl.
• Xia Ping discovered the Dragon Pearl contained Thunder Continent's stored origin power, which flooded his body and rapidly increased his mana.
• Xia Ping reached the bottleneck of the initial stage of the Early Ancient Saint realm and neared a breakthrough to the middle stage.

Xia Ping refined the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman’s origin energy and advanced to the middle stage of the Early Ancient Realm. He left with greatly increased power and all three thousand talismans bound to him.

• Xia Ping broke through to the middle stage of the Early Ancient Realm as Thunder Continent’s origin energy flooded his nine Purple Mansion spaces.
• Xia Ping’s divine consciousness expanded to seven hundred light-years, strengthening his Spatial Domain and greatly increasing his speed and defensive power.
• Xia Ping’s mana and spatial-law comprehension grew, and he awakened ten billion more Hell Golden Crow Cells, bringing the total to fifty billion.
• Xia Ping realized that refining the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman had saved him years of cultivation and that the three thousand talismans were firmly bound to him, beyond the reach of the demon Saints or Tania.

Xia Ping discovered that the reunited Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman was a supreme-grade Saint artifact, but its injured artifact spirit needed Dragon Race origin power to recover. After learning it could sense the Dragon World and enter unnoticed, Xia Ping decided to visit the mysterious world.

• Xia Ping revealed the three thousand fused Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans as a complete sphere, and Green Ox and Cat Immortal admired its power.
• The Ancient Heavenly Dragon artifact spirit emerged, explained that it had been shattered in an Ancient Era battle, and said its memories and strength remained damaged.
• The artifact spirit said it needed to devour Dragon Race origin power to heal and described its ability to project the Ancient Dragon World and summon an army of three thousand dragons.
• Xia Ping learned that the artifact spirit could sense where the Dragon World would appear and use the talisman to enter without being detected.
• Xia Ping decided to visit the Dragon World.

After returning to Thunder City, Xia Ping declined Purple Thunder Saint’s victory banquet invitation and was warned that the Demon Race might target him. A Long-Horn Race Saint named Golden Horn Saint then revealed a trap, and three Ancient Demon Saints launched an assassination attempt against Xia Ping.

• Xia Ping returned to Thunder City after the war and declined Purple Thunder Saint’s invitation to the victory banquet.
• Purple Thunder Saint warned Xia Ping that Demon Saints knew he had exposed Haims City’s intelligence and might ambush him.
• Golden Horn Saint approached Xia Ping outside his villa, praised his achievements, and announced that he would die that day.
• Three Ancient Demon Saints emerged from Golden Horn Saint’s spatial treasure and froze the surrounding spacetime with their domains.
• The three Ancient Demon Saints attacked Xia Ping, confident that their combined power would kill him.

At a banquet in Thunder City, the Saints learned that three Ancient Demon Saints had attacked Fengdu Saint, prompting the city’s defenders to rush to his aid. Xia Ping, however, welcomed the assassination attempt as a chance to kill the attackers and earn billions of points.

• Purple Thunder Saint told the banquet guests that Fengdu had declined his invitation, and the Saints discussed how to befriend him and learn about his intelligence sources.
• Three Ancient Demon Saints attacked Xia Ping, and their space-time disturbance shook Thunder City’s formations.
• Listening Rain Saint realized that the attack targeted Fengdu Saint, and Purple Thunder Saint ordered the restriction formations activated and raced toward him.
• Listening Rain Saint and the other Saints sent urgent messages to the Human Race ancestors as they hurried to stop the assassins.
• Xia Ping faced three Ancient Demon Saints and one Near-Ancient Demon Saint without fear, calculating that killing them could earn him five and a half billion points.

Three Middle Ancient Demon Saints and an Early Ancient Demon Saint ambushed Fengdu in Thunder City, believing him to be an Immortal Saint, but discovered he had reached the middle stage of the Early Ancient realm. Fengdu shattered their spacetime domains and killed Golden Horn Saint with one punch, leaving the remaining attackers facing his overwhelming power.

• Three Middle Ancient Demon Saints trapped Fengdu in their combined spacetime domains and prepared to kill him before reinforcements arrived.
• The demons discovered their domains could not crush Fengdu and realized he was a middle-stage Early Ancient Saint, contrary to their intelligence.
• Fengdu unleashed his seven-hundred-light-year spatial domain and tore apart the demons' spacetime domains, shaking Thunder City.
• Fengdu mocked the demons and struck Golden Horn Saint with a punch that destroyed its body and annihilated its soul.

Xia Ping killed Golden Horn Saint and then trapped the three surviving Ancient Demon Saints with his overwhelming Spatial Domain. Their soul attacks failed against his Chaos Bell, so they abandoned the assassination and fled before Thunder City's restrictions activated.

• Xia Ping killed Golden Horn Saint with a single punch, shocking the other Ancient Demon Saints.
• Xia Ping used his vast Spatial Domain to suppress and trap the three Ancient Demon Saints.
• The three Ancient Demon Saints launched soul attacks, but Xia Ping's Chaos Bell blocked them.
• The Ancient Demon Saints realized they could not kill Xia Ping and fled before Thunder City's restriction formations activated.

Xia Ping resisted the Phantom Sound Flower’s illusion and used his Spatial Domain to block the three Ancient Demon Saints from escaping. The demons were left stunned when they realized he had remained unaffected.

• Xia Ping sealed the three Ancient Demon Saints inside his Spatial Domain as they attempted to flee.
• One Ancient Demon Saint crushed the Phantom Sound Flower, engulfing Thunder City and the surrounding region in an illusion that incapacitated its inhabitants and cut off the Cosmic Virtual Network.
• The World Tree in Xia Ping’s sea of consciousness shielded him from the illusion, while the Phantom Sound Flower protected the three demons within separate spheres.
• The Ancient Demon Saints decided not to attack Xia Ping, fearing that disturbing the fragile illusion would trap them, and prepared to escape instead.
• Xia Ping appeared before the demons and restrained them with his Spatial Domain, leaving them shocked that the Phantom Sound Flower had not affected him.

Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to kill three Ancient Demon Saints who had tried to kill him. After the Phantom Sound Flower’s illusion over Thunder City ended, the other saints found Xia Ping standing unharmed beside four corpses and learned that he had reached the middle stage of the Early Ancient realm.

• Xia Ping unleashed the Samsara Pen’s power of reincarnation, piercing through the three Ancient Demon Saints’ spacetime barriers and destroying their souls.
• The battle weakened the Phantom Sound Flower’s power, freeing the saints of Thunder City from its illusion.
• Purple Thunder Saint, Listening Rain Saint, and the others rushed to the scene and found Xia Ping unharmed beside the three Ancient Demon Saints’ corpses and Golden Horn Saint’s corpse.
• Xia Ping told the gathered saints that the three Ancient Demon Saints had tried to kill him and he had killed them instead.
• Listening Rain Saint sensed Xia Ping’s Spatial Domain, and Xia Ping revealed that he had long ago advanced to the middle stage of the Early Ancient realm.

Xia Ping, as Fengdu Saint, killed three Ancient Demon Saints and a peak Near-Ancient Demon Saint, leaving the Saints and Human Race patriarchs stunned by his strength and apparent advancement to the Early Ancient realm. The patriarchs learned that his identity remained secret, but Fengdu had become a name the other races would fear even more.

• Purple Thunder Saint asked Fengdu Saint how he had killed the Demon Saints, and Xia Ping claimed he had simply fought them and destroyed their souls.
• Xia Ping collected the Demon Saint corpses and left Thunder City.
• Void Patriarch arrived and learned from Purple Thunder Saint that Fengdu Saint had killed the three Ancient Demon Saints and one peak Near-Ancient Demon Saint.
• Void Patriarch told Carefree Patriarch and Universe Ancestor that Fengdu Saint was unharmed and appeared to have advanced to the Early Ancient realm.
• Void Patriarch said the battle could not be monitored because Phantom Sound Flowers had paralyzed the Cosmic Virtual Network.
• The patriarchs confirmed Xia Ping's identity remained secret, though Void Patriarch feared Fengdu's actions would draw even more wariness from the other races.

Demon Race patriarchs discussed Fengdu’s defeat of their three Ancient Demon Saints and suspected he was Xia Ping, while plotting to wait for the Human Race to weaken in the coming war. In the Abyss World, Abyss Demons planned to exploit the races’ conflicts and hunt their geniuses, including Wu Wudi and Fengdu, while preparing attacks on former overlord races.

• A Demon Race patriarch raged that the three Ancient Demon Saints had failed to assassinate Fengdu and died, bringing shame on the Demon Race.
• Demon Race patriarchs acknowledged Fengdu’s strength and discussed whether he was Xia Ping, though they could not confirm his identity.
• The patriarchs resolved to tolerate the Human Race until its forces were weakened by the coming war against the Abyss Demons.
• Abyss Demons discussed the Human Race and Demon Race’s recent losses and welcomed their conflict as an opportunity to weaken both sides.
• Abyss Demon leaders revealed that Wu Wudi and Fengdu were on their hunting list and said they were targeting famous geniuses across the races.
• An Abyss Demon warned that the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races remained dangerous, and the leaders said they had prepared a strike against them.

After receiving a vast reward for defeating the Demon Race assassins, Xia Ping searched the Hall of Saints for a soul secret art and exchanged one billion points for Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly. He remained in the Cosmic Virtual Network as Saint Zhuang Zhou’s phantom began transmitting the supreme art.

• Xia Ping received 5.5 billion Hall of Saints points and 200 Hate Crystals for killing three Ancient Demon Saints and one peak Near Ancient Demon Saint.
• Xia Ping decided he needed a powerful soul attack to kill Saint-level enemies and browsed the Hall of Saints’ soul secret arts.
• Xia Ping chose Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly after learning it was created by the fallen invincible Saint Zhuang Zhou and contained his cultivation insights.
• Xia Ping spent one billion points to exchange for the secret art and promised not to reveal it.
• Saint Zhuang Zhou’s preaching phantom appeared in the Cosmic Virtual Network and began transmitting the secret art as Xia Ping listened intently.

Xia Ping studied Saint Zhuang Zhou’s soul secret art, Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly, and advanced his illusion arts to the consummate stage of the first realm. With his power greatly increased, he decided he was ready to go to the Dragon World.

• Xia Ping learned how Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly could trap enemies in illusions and alter their memories.
• Xia Ping spent ten more days cultivating in the Mountain River Bead space and declined visits from Purple Thunder Saint and Listening Rain Saint.
• Xia Ping created an illusionary world spanning seven hundred light-years and reached the consummate stage of the first realm of illusion arts.
• Xia Ping resolved to head to the Dragon World, confident that his improved illusion arts would help him survive its dangers.

Xia Ping traveled to a remote sea region and used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to locate the hidden Dragon World, an immense realm shaped like an Ancestral Dragon. He and Ao Wu waited nearby while Ao Wu searched for a flaw that would let them enter without alerting the Dragon Race.

• Xia Ping left Thunder City aboard his Star Ship, and the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman’s artifact spirit directed him northeast toward the Dragon World.
• Xia Ping named the artifact spirit Ao Wu, and they traveled for three months to a desolate sea region.
• Ao Wu sensed that the Dragon World was nearby but said they needed to find a flaw in its defenses to enter unnoticed.
• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to spot the Dragon World’s hidden entrance and saw that the vast realm resembled an Ancestral Dragon.
• Ao Wu said it would need at least three days to find a flaw, and Xia Ping agreed to wait.

Xia Ping discovered Ye Mengyao being hunted by three Dragon Race Saints who wanted the Dragon Wood Star Core she had found. He rushed to intervene as the Dragons attacked her, and an invisible force of illusion descended.

• Xia Ping sensed a battle hundreds of light-years away and used his World Tree clone to locate Ye Mengyao in danger.
• Xia Ping recognized Ye Mengyao and teleported toward the island to save her.
• The three Dragon Race Saints demanded Ye Mengyao surrender the Dragon Wood Star Core and threatened her with reinforcements from their elders.
• Ye Mengyao refused to give up the Star Core, despite the damage her escape had caused to her foundation.
• The Dragon Race Saints attacked Ye Mengyao from three directions, and an invisible force of illusion descended.

Xia Ping rescued Ye Mengyao from three Dragon Race Saints and learned that reinforcements had arrived to seize the Dragon Wood Star Core. The reinforcements surrounded them and demanded that Xia Ping release the captured Saints and surrender the core.

• Xia Ping used his soul power to trap three peak Immortal Realm Dragon Race Saints in an illusion, stopping them from attacking Ye Mengyao.
• Xia Ping appeared before Ye Mengyao, and their conversation revealed their past together as he joked about whether she was pregnant with his child.
• Xia Ping moved to capture the three Dragon Race Saints for information about the Dragon World.
• Five Dragon Race Saints arrived, including three middle-stage Middle Ancient Realm Saints and two peak Near Ancient Realm Saints.
• A Middle Ancient Dragon Race Saint demanded that Xia Ping release the three captives and hand over the Dragon Wood Star Core, threatening both humans with death.

Xia Ping protected Ye Mengyao from the Dragon Race saints and used his Spatial Domain to block a Middle Ancient Saint’s attack. He then trapped all five Dragon Race saints with Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly and took Ye Mengyao to another island.

• Xia Ping shielded Ye Mengyao from the Dragon Race saints’ killing intent and captured three Dragon Race Immortal Saints in the Mountain River Bead.
• A Middle Ancient Dragon Race saint attacked Xia Ping, but Xia Ping’s Absolute Barrier stopped the strike and protected Ye Mengyao.
• Xia Ping exploited the Dragon Race saints’ shock and cast Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly over all five of them.
• The illusion left the five Dragon Race saints unable to resist, and Xia Ping imprisoned them in the Mountain River Bead.
• Xia Ping took Ye Mengyao and fled to another island to avoid other Dragon Race saints.

Xia Ping used the Six Paths Sealing Technique to reduce eight Dragon Race Saints to mortals so he could question them about the Dragon World. Ye Mengyao warned that outsiders who entered the Dragon World would be killed, but Xia Ping claimed he already knew how to sneak in.

• Xia Ping asked the system for a way to seal the eight captured Dragon Race Saints and bought the Six Paths Sealing Technique for fifty Hate Crystals.
• Xia Ping mastered the technique and sealed the Saints’ powers, leaving them unable to use mana.
• Ye Mengyao asked why Xia Ping had sealed the Saints, and he said he wanted information about the Dragon World.
• Ye Mengyao warned Xia Ping that the Dragon Race’s old monsters killed outsiders who entered the Dragon World.
• Xia Ping said he already knew the Dragon World’s location and had a way to sneak in, shocking Ye Mengyao.