Chapter Summaries

After the demonic sound tide passed, Xia Ping considered sending a clone to explore Sound Pattern Mountain. Six Ancient Saints of the Angel Race then surrounded him and launched a lethal attack, leaving Xia Ping ready to kill them.

• Xia Ping asked Cat Immortal whether the demonic sound tide followed a pattern and learned that it was unpredictable.
• Xia Ping decided that his Kunpeng Clone could safely explore the secret realm.
• Six Ancient Saints of the Angel Race arrived and discussed killing Xia Ping to protect their secret plan.
• The Angel Race saints surrounded Xia Ping in a six-pointed star formation and attacked him.
• Xia Ping recognized them as enemies and resolved to kill them without mercy.

Xia Ping fought six Ancient Realm angels and overwhelmed them with his Four Seasons Alternation punch and Hell Golden Crow Claw. The angels’ Holy Light Domain failed, and Xia Ping killed one of them as the others tried to retreat.

• Xia Ping struck the six Ancient Realm angels with Four Seasons Alternation, breaking their combined attack and injuring them.
• Xia Ping ignored an angel’s attempt to call off the fight and summoned his Hell Golden Crow Claw.
• The six angels merged their Creation Domains into the Holy Light Domain and attacked Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping’s claw crushed through the Holy Light Domain, prompting the angels to attempt a retreat.
• Xia Ping’s Hell Golden Crow Claw caught one ancient angel and crushed its body, soul, and laws of creation and spacetime.

Xia Ping killed two Ancient Angels who had attacked him, then used his Soul Screech to stop the remaining four from escaping. He devoured their souls, gaining a surge of soul power and mana.

• Xia Ping killed the short-haired Ancient Angel with Indra Finger, destroying his soul.
• Xia Ping taunted the four remaining Ancient Saints of the Angel Race, who realized he had not used his magic treasures.
• The four Ancient Angels fled in different directions to summon reinforcements.
• Xia Ping unleashed Soul Screech, tearing the four angels' souls from their bodies.
• The Hell Golden Crow swallowed the four souls, and Xia Ping's soul power and mana surged.

After six angels were killed, the Angel Race learned from their shared souls that a Human Race Ancient Saint had slain them. The angels ordered scouts to investigate the human’s strength and companions, while the Angel Commander prepared a decisive attack.

• The three primordial ancient angels sensed the deaths of Walls and five other angels and received a blurry image of their killer.
• The golden-haired angel reasoned that the human saint was exceptionally powerful and considered whether he had come to disrupt the Angel Race’s plan or had arrived by coincidence.
• The three-eyed angel and the emerald-eyed angel vowed that the Human Race saint would pay for killing six angels.
• The golden-haired angel warned the angels not to engage the human until his strength was known, then ordered them to observe him and report back.
• Twenty or thirty ancient angels accepted the orders and departed to investigate where Walls and the others had died.

After killing six Ancient Angels, Xia Ping grew stronger and continued deeper into the Sound Pattern Mountain secret realm despite the Angel Race’s threat of revenge. Gu Rulai arrived after him and, unable to trace Fengdu’s past with his Time-Space Mirror, became even more determined to uncover his secrets.

• Xia Ping absorbed the six Ancient Angels’ soul power and advanced toward the late stage of the Ancient Realm.
• Cat Immortal warned Xia Ping that the Angel Race would relentlessly hunt anyone who killed its members, but Xia Ping refused to fear them.
• Xia Ping set aside the Angel Race and vanished into the void to explore deeper into the Sound Pattern Mountain secret realm.
• Gu Rulai arrived at the site of the battle and used his Time-Space Mirror to investigate what had happened.
• The mirror failed to reveal Fengdu’s past and triggered a dangerous backlash, convincing Gu Rulai that Fengdu possessed a great secret he intended to claim.

Xia Ping gathered high-grade Sound Pattern Stones near Sound Pattern Mountain and learned that a group of Angels, including Primordial Realm Angels, and Gu Rulai were plotting against him. He reached the edge of the core area but found a Divine Barrier blocking entry.

• Xia Ping found grade-five Sound Pattern Stones near the mountain and decided that the core area might hold even higher-grade stones.
• The system warned Xia Ping that Angels and Gu Rulai harbored killing intent toward him.
• Xia Ping suspected the Angels had a plan tied to the mystic realm and decided to investigate their secret location.
• After a day and night of cautious travel, Xia Ping reached the edge of the core area and discovered a powerful Divine Barrier blocking his way.

Xia Ping infiltrated the Angel Race’s encampment at Sound Pattern Mountain and discovered that three Primordial Angels were close to breaking through the divine barrier into the core region. The Angels dismissed him as a minor threat, unaware that he was listening nearby.

• Xia Ping recalled that breaking Sound Pattern Mountain’s divine barrier by force had caused deadly Demonic Sound Tides, then suspected the Angels were secretly studying a way through it.
• Xia Ping used the Formless Mask to approach the Angels’ rune-protected cave encampment and admired the strength of their defenses.
• Xia Ping used his Kunpeng bloodline to pass through the Angel restrictions without being detected.
• Xia Ping discovered three Primordial Angels analyzing the divine barrier while the other Ancient Angels hunted him.
• One Primordial Angel said they could crack the restrictions within days, while the others dismissed Xia Ping as an insignificant threat if they found him.

Xia Ping overheard three ancient angels reveal that the Sound Pattern Mountain secret realm held the War Horn, a powerful artifact from the previous universe epoch, and may have been the War God's palace. He learned why the Angel Race had spent ages targeting the realm, then slipped away unnoticed.

• Two ancient angels asked their golden-rune leader what lay inside the Sound Pattern Mountain secret realm.
• The golden ancient angel revealed that the War Horn slept in the realm's core and that its faint, unconscious sounds created the Demonic Sound Tide.
• The golden ancient angel said the realm had once been the War God's palace and might also contain his treasures and inheritance.
• The ancient angels vowed to prevent other races from claiming the realm and explained that their invincible Saints could not act without drawing attention.
• Xia Ping understood the angels' motives and silently left their lair without being detected.

Gu Rulai failed to track Xia Ping in the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm, then was startled when Xia Ping appeared beside him undetected. Xia Ping invited Gu Rulai to help him obtain a treasure, and Gu Rulai accepted, intending to uncover Xia Ping’s secret.

• Gu Rulai used numerous divine abilities to search for Xia Ping but found no trace of him.
• Xia Ping appeared within several dozen meters of Gu Rulai without being detected, alarming him.
• Gu Rulai recognized Xia Ping and wondered why the man he could not track had appeared before him.
• Xia Ping invited Gu Rulai to explore the realm together and offered to share a treasure and its risks.
• Gu Rulai accepted Xia Ping’s invitation, planning to discover his secret.

Xia Ping led Gu Rulai toward the core of the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm, keeping the method of entry secret as Gu Rulai tried to learn more. As they approached the Angels’ hidden camp, dozens of ancient Angels intercepted them and accused the two Human Race Saints of trespassing and killing Angels.

• Gu Rulai questioned Xia Ping about the secret of the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm, and Xia Ping said he knew how to enter its core region.
• Xia Ping refused to reveal his method, frustrating Gu Rulai, who concealed his anger and continued traveling with him.
• After a day of travel, Xia Ping led Gu Rulai close to the Angels’ encampment.
• The Angels sensed the approaching auras and sent dozens of ancient Angels to surround and intercept Xia Ping and Gu Rulai.
• The ancient Angels blamed Gu Rulai for killing six of their kind and condemned both Human Race Saints as trespassers.

Xia Ping claimed responsibility for killing six ancient angels and tried to let Gu Rulai leave, but his taunts convinced the angels that both Saints were accomplices. Their confrontation escalated when three Primordial Ancient Angels arrived, leaving Gu Rulai facing a far more dangerous fight.

• Xia Ping told the angels he had killed the six ancient angels and said Gu Rulai was uninvolved.
• An ancient angel rejected Xia Ping’s claim, and the angels accused both Saints of complicity and demanded they surrender or die.
• Xia Ping mocked the angels and threatened to kill a hundred of them, while Gu Rulai realized their suspicion had shifted toward him.
• Three Primordial Ancient Angels tore through space and surrounded Xia Ping and Gu Rulai with their world domains.
• Gu Rulai recognized the new arrivals as powerful enemies and regretted being dragged into the confrontation by Xia Ping.

Xia Ping demanded a one-on-one fight against the angels, then used their mockery to distract them and escaped with his Kunpeng Divine Ability. Gu Rulai was left surrounded by the angels, who sealed the void and prepared to kill him.

• Xia Ping called on the primordial angels to fight one-on-one, but they mocked his demand and insisted that numbers mattered in a war between races.
• Xia Ping secretly told Gu Rulai he would return to Mysterious Yellow City for reinforcements, then vanished using his Kunpeng Divine Ability.
• The angels realized Xia Ping had escaped and turned their attention to Gu Rulai, whom they blamed for killing their clansmen.
• Gu Rulai claimed he had never killed an angel, but the angels rejected his excuse and threatened him with death.
• The angels fused their domains into a Holy Light Domain that covered two hundred thousand light-years and sealed the void.
• Gu Rulai cursed Fengdu Saint for setting him up and focused on escaping the angels' encirclement.

Gu Rulai tried to trap the angels in his Mirror World, but a mysterious will shattered the domain and prompted them to summon the Spear of Judgment. While the angels confronted Gu Rulai, Xia Ping escaped and found a flaw in the Divine Barrier, entering the core region of the Sound Pattern Mountain Mystic Realm.

• The three Primordial Ancient Angels attacked Gu Rulai while the other angels supplied them with energy.
• Gu Rulai unleashed his Mirror World domain and began swallowing the angels, but a mysterious will shattered it.
• The golden Primordial Ancient Angel summoned the Spear of Judgment and ordered the angels to hunt Gu Rulai, who decided to avoid provoking the power behind them.
• Xia Ping fled millions of light-years away and said the angels might delay Gu Rulai, though they were unlikely to kill him.
• Xia Ping used his Hell Golden Crow Eye to find a weakness in the Divine Barrier and broke through into the core region.

Xia Ping entered Sound Pattern Mountain's true form and collected forty-nine supreme Sound Pattern Stones. He learned that the Stairway of Courage led to the War God's inheritance at the mountain's summit, a trial that had killed even invincible Saints.

• Xia Ping found himself at the foot of the blood-black Sound Pattern Mountain and discovered supreme Sound Pattern Stones scattered nearby.
• Xia Ping collected forty-nine supreme Sound Pattern Stones while the Cat Immortal explored the area.
• The Cat Immortal pointed out a stone stairway and a broken boulder whose scripture entered Xia Ping's sea of consciousness.
• Xia Ping learned that the War God had left his inheritance at the summit, where the War Temple held his treasures.
• Xia Ping learned that the eighteen-thousand-step Stairway of Courage subjected climbers to demonic sound that had killed even invincible Saints.

Xia Ping began the War God's inheritance trial on the Stairway of Courage, where he endured the Demonic Sound Tide and found it could temper his soul. As the tide erupted across Sound Pattern Mountain, Gu Rulai and the angels abandoned their fight and fled for shelter.

• Xia Ping recognized that he had to withstand Sound Pattern Mountain's demonic sound to obtain the War God's inheritance and trusted his World Tree and System to protect his soul.
• Xia Ping stepped onto the Stairway of Courage, heard the War God's challenge, and took the first blows of the Demonic Sound Tide.
• Xia Ping discovered that the demonic sound was strengthening and purifying his soul, then climbed another stair as its power increased.
• The Demonic Sound Tide swept across Sound Pattern Mountain, threatening Gu Rulai and the angels fighting in the outer region.
• The golden Primordial Ancient Angel ordered the angels to retreat to their refuge, and they fled while Gu Rulai assessed the danger.

Xia Ping endured the demonic sound on Sound Pattern Mountain until he broke through from the middle Ancient Realm to the late Ancient Realm. His soul recovered and grew stronger, allowing him to continue climbing without relying on the World Tree.

• Xia Ping climbed five thousand steps on Sound Pattern Mountain while the demonic sound battered his soul and left him close to collapse.
• As Xia Ping neared his limit, a surge of chaos energy helped him break through into the late Ancient Realm.
• Xia Ping’s nine Purple Mansion spaces expanded, his mana doubled, and his soul power recovered and grew to twice its former strength.
• Xia Ping awakened another five hundred billion Hell Golden Crow Cells, raising his total to two and a half trillion and strengthening his bloodline abilities.
• Xia Ping found that his strengthened soul could withstand the demonic sound, so he continued the trial using only his own body and kept the World Tree in reserve.

After three months of climbing Sound Pattern Mountain, Xia Ping reached the ten-thousand-and-first step, where demonic music nearly put his soul to sleep. He summoned the World Tree to protect him and discovered how far it had grown, leaving him to comprehend its potential and the laws of the universe’s origin.

• Xia Ping climbed to the ten-thousandth step over three months, greatly strengthening his soul as its progress slowed.
• Xia Ping stepped onto the ten-thousand-and-first step, where hypnotic demonic music threatened to plunge him into permanent sleep.
• Xia Ping summoned the World Tree when his own soul power could no longer withstand the demonic music.
• The World Tree formed a barrier around Xia Ping and blocked the demonic music’s attacks.
• Xia Ping sensed that the World Tree had grown into an immense cosmic tree, drawing energy from dimensional spaces and beginning to form worlds in its leaves.
• Xia Ping recognized the World Tree’s vast potential and gained insight into the laws of the universe’s origin.

Xia Ping climbed Sound Pattern Mountain under the World Tree’s protection and found the corpses of two demigod-level beings, which he collected for the World Tree to devour. At the seventeen-thousandth step, the mountain’s demonic sounds became living creatures and powerful illusions that threatened to draw him beyond the barrier.

• Xia Ping reached the fifteen-thousandth step and found the dead body of a Howling Moon Wolf whose soul had been destroyed by the demonic sounds.
• Xia Ping sent the Howling Moon Wolf’s corpse into the Classic of Mountains and Seas World, where the World Tree began absorbing its energy.
• At the sixteen-thousandth step, Xia Ping found and collected the corpse of an Ice Demon demigod, whose absolute-zero aura had frozen the surrounding space-time.
• When Xia Ping reached the seventeen-thousandth step, Sound Pattern Mountain trembled and its demonic sounds transformed into creatures and illusions.
• Xia Ping faced visions of demonic beasts, temptations, his childhood, and enemies he had killed as they tried to lure him out of the World Tree’s protection.

Xia Ping broke through the demonic music’s illusions and found the corpses of powerful demigods as he climbed Sound Pattern Mountain. Near the summit, he discovered an angel’s collection of treasures, including four damaged Saint artifacts, while the remaining hundred steps still threatened to overwhelm the World Tree’s barriers.

• Xia Ping used the World Tree to shatter the illusions on the seventeen-thousandth step and found a dead demigod-level Abyss Demon, which he added to his Classic of Mountains and Seas World.
• Xia Ping climbed to the seventeen-thousand-nine-hundredth step as the demonic music cracked the World Tree’s barriers.
• Xia Ping found a dead demigod-level angel and suspected its fate was connected to the Angel Race’s plan to enter the mystic realm.
• Xia Ping discovered four Space Rings on the angel, containing treasures gathered from earlier dead demigods and four supreme-grade Saint artifacts.
• Xia Ping realized the demonic music had killed the artifacts’ spirits, reducing the four treasures to lower-grade Saint artifacts.

Xia Ping reached the summit of Sound Pattern Mountain, passed the War God's trial, and accepted the inheritance from the divine throne. As the power entered his soul, the War God revealed that the inheritance was a trap meant to seize Xia Ping's body and revive.

• Xia Ping charged through the demonic sounds and reached the final stair before the World Tree's barrier could fail.
• Xia Ping found the mountaintop empty of survivors and saw the ruined War God's divine temple.
• An ancient voice declared Xia Ping had passed the trial and invited him to claim the War God's inheritance.
• Xia Ping entered the temple, sat on the divine throne, and released the restraints on his soul.
• The War God revealed his plan to destroy Xia Ping's soul and take over his body.