Chapter Summaries

After reaching the peak of the Demigod Realm, Xia Ping strengthened his Hell Golden Crow bloodline and prepared to cultivate before advancing to the God Realm. In the Dark Forbidden Zone, ancient beings learned that he had killed Baptiste and seized the Gaias, and vowed to capture and torment him.

• Xia Ping realized that copying divine sparks would not let him master all three thousand Great Daos, though it could help him reach the Dominator Realm.
• Xia Ping discovered that eighty trillion Hell Golden Crow Cells had awakened and that Furnace Wizards had spread throughout the Evil God Universe, increasing the origin energy he gained.
• Xia Ping decided to enter seclusion to study Great Dao laws through his Feathered Serpent God avatar and consolidate his cultivation before advancing to the God Realm.
• Ancient beings in the Dark Forbidden Zone awakened after learning that Baptiste and the other gods had died and that Xia Ping had taken every Gaia.
• The ancient beings agreed that they still had a backup plan, then vowed to find Xia Ping, reclaim the Gaias, and make him suffer.

After three years of preparation, the Devil Master began the Abyss Demons’ invasion of the Present World Universe, using the Abyssal Demon Tree to shatter the seals and spread corruption through the cosmos. The demons settled in to guard their lairs, confident that the tree would eventually transform the universe into an Abyss.

• The Devil Master announced that the Abyss Demons would begin their war early to catch the myriad races of the heavens off guard.
• The Devil Master connected with the Abyssal Demon Tree, which shattered every sealed void passage in the Abyss World and killed those guarding them.
• The Abyssal Demon Tree spread roots across the Present World Universe and unleashed demonic energy that created Abyssal domains around the passages.
• The Abyssal Demon Tree began devouring the universe’s origin energy and converting it into Abyssal Demonic Qi, threatening to transform the universe into an Abyss.
• The Devil Master ordered the Invincible Realm Demons to guard their demon lairs and wait for the tree to corrupt the universe.

After the Abyssal Demon Tree shattered the sealed passageways, Abyssal Demonic Qi and Abyss Demons devastated nearby worlds, prompting the Saints of the heavens to prepare a final assault. The Saints gathered at the Human Sacred Land, ready to stake everything on killing the tree.

• The Abyssal Demon Tree shattered every sealed passageway, unleashing demonic qi that killed or transformed countless lives as Abyss Demons rampaged nearby.
• The Saints discussed the invasion, recognizing that the Abyssal Demon Tree wielded power equal to a lower god and that the Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix races had refused to join them.
• The Saints agreed to evacuate nearby mortals and launch a collective assault on the Abyssal Demon Tree, knowing defeat would mean their races' destruction.
• The Saints of the myriad races gathered at the Human Sacred Land, using humanity's Cosmic Virtual Network to assemble for the battle.

After spending hundreds of millions of years in secluded cultivation, Xia Ping mastered two thousand Great Dao laws and considered how to forge a unique Ruler-level godhead. Green Ox informed him that the Abyss Demons had begun invading the Present World Universe, and Xia Ping prepared to confront them.

• Xia Ping awakened after mastering two thousand Great Dao laws and copying the authorities held in the godheads he had collected.
• Xia Ping decided not to follow the paths of existing Ruler Gods and restrained himself from advancing until he could gather enough origin energy to condense his own Ruler-level godhead.
• Xia Ping considered ruling the Hell planes and accelerating the Hell World's growth as a way to obtain the origin energy he needed.
• Green Ox reported that the Abyss Demons had launched a large-scale assault and the Abyssal Demon Tree had already spread its roots across half the Present World Universe.
• Xia Ping resolved to stop the Abyss Demons from turning the Present World Universe into an abyssal demon realm.

Xia Ping learned that the World Tree’s seed had taken root in the Abyssal Demon Tree and set out to stop the invasion. He burned Abyss Demons across multiple star fields as Saints from many races gathered for a final assault on the Abyssal Demon Tree.

• Xia Ping sensed that the Abyssal Demon Tree was draining the Present World Universe’s origin and transforming it with Abyssal Demonic Qi.
• Xia Ping incinerated every Abyss Demon within ten billion light-years, saving the beings who had been under attack.
• Xia Ping continued sweeping through star fields, burning Abyss Demons and clearing away the Abyssal Demonic Qi.
• Three thousand Invincible Realm Abyss Demons and dozens of Sunshine Demons guarded the Abyssal Demon Tree’s main body at the demons’ headquarters.
• Saints from the Human Race, Insect Race, Machine Race, Demon Race, Element Race, and other races assembled near the headquarters, prepared to launch their final assault.

The elders of the ancient races watched as the Abyssal Demon Tree faced the allied army of the myriad races, while Samuel suggested the conflict might not be as one-sided as it seemed. The Machine Race fired its Fourfold Annihilation Cannon, blasting through the Abyss Demons’ defenses and opening the battle.

• The Phoenix Race and Qilin Race elders predicted the Abyss would win, while the Black Tortoise Clan elder questioned why the ancient races would not intervene.
• The elders discussed the coming awakening of their gods, and Great Elder Samuel said the myriad races might be stronger than expected.
• The myriad races’ allied army arrived at the Abyssal Demon Tree, outnumbered in top experts by the Abyss Demons.
• A Machine Race demigod brought out the Fourfold Annihilation Cannon, the Machine Race’s clan-suppressing divine artifact.
• More than a dozen Machine Race demigods fired the cannon, piercing the Abyss Demons’ dark energy barrier and destroying demons in the blast.

The peak races unleashed their clan-suppressing divine artifacts against the Abyss Demons, inflicting heavy casualties as the myriad races fought together. The Devil Master then appeared from the abyss and struck at their divine artifacts.

• Element Race Demigods activated the Grand Evolution Divine Furnace and refined the charging Abyss Demons.
• Demon Race Demigods used the Destiny Sphere to crush Abyss Demons beneath its immense weight.
• Insect Race Demigods unleashed the Great Liberation Wheel, shattering the souls of demons across a vast area.
• Human Race Demigods brought out the Demon Suppression Tower and immobilized and crushed countless demons.
• The other races joined the united assault, causing the Abyss Demons grievous casualties.
• The Devil Master emerged from the abyss and punched across space-time at the peak races' divine artifacts.

The Devil Master overwhelmed the allied demigods with nine devastating punches, and North Nether Saint barely protected the Human Race by taking one head-on. The Devil Master then unleashed forty-nine Sunshine Demons, whose Abyssal Demonic Fire began burning through the Saints as the battle turned dire.

• The Devil Master struck the Machine Race's Fourfold Annihilation Cannon, killing more than half of its demigods and badly injuring the survivors.
• The Devil Master blasted the Element Race's Grand Evolution Divine Furnace and the Demon Race's Destiny Sphere away, killing or grievously wounding many of their demigods.
• North Nether Saint used the Demon Suppression Tower and Authority: Unyielding to block a punch aimed at the Human Race demigods, though he was severely wounded.
• North Nether Saint explained that the Devil Master had become one with the Abyssal Demon Tree, while the Saints despaired over how to stop him.
• The invincible-realm demons awakened forty-nine Sunshine Demons, which descended into the Present World Universe and unleashed toxic heat and Abyssal Demonic Fire upon the Saints.

North Nether Saint detonated the Stellar Burst Talismans hidden in the Abyssal Demon Tree, unleashing an explosion that swallowed the Devil Master and obliterated a vast region of space. The blast destroyed the tree’s roots and collapsed every passage between the Abyss and the Present World Universe.

• The Demigods decided that North Nether Saint would trigger their contingency in the Abyssal Demon Tree to target the Devil Master.
• The Devil Master sensed danger, attacked the Demigods, and identified the hidden Stellar Burst Talismans.
• North Nether Saint revealed the trap and detonated hundreds of millions of Stellar Burst Talismans.
• The Abyss Demons and Saints fled as the blast destroyed the Abyssal Demon Tree’s roots and collapsed the passages between the two worlds.
• The explosion swallowed the Devil Master and annihilated everything across a vast expanse of starfields.

The saints’ final attack failed to kill the Devil Master and the Abyssal Demon Tree, leaving them convinced that the Present World Universe was doomed. The divine beast elders debated the threat and prepared to withdraw, but Samuel insisted the outcome had not yet been decided.

• North Nether Saint survived the explosion but warned the Human Race patriarchs that the Devil Master was still alive.
• The Devil Master and the Abyssal Demon Tree emerged unharmed, protected by eighteen immortal divine corpses that had shielded them from the Stellar Burst Talismans.
• The saints realized their final measure had failed and despaired over having no way left to stop the Devil Master.
• A Phoenix Race elder declared the Present World Universe doomed, while a Qilin Race elder and a Black Tortoise Clan elder worried about the Abyss Demons’ future threat to their races.
• The Phoenix Race elder urged the divine beast races to return to their strongholds and prepare to awaken their gods.
• The Black Tortoise Clan chief asked Samuel what he thought, and Samuel said they should keep watching because victory had not yet been decided.

Xia Ping appeared amid the Human Race Saints’ desperate battle against the Devil Master and the Abyssal Demon Tree. He killed a peak Demigod Abyss Demon with one punch, and North Nether Saint recognized him as his disciple.

• The Devil Master trapped the Saints within the Abyssal Demon Tree’s domain and sent its branches and the Abyss Demons to attack them.
• The Abyssal Demon Tree and Abyss Demons killed or wounded many Saints while North Nether Saint remained gravely injured.
• A mysterious great hand erased the attacks from both sides, and a Human Race Demigod emerged from the void.
• A peak Demigod Abyss Demon attacked the newcomer with White Tiger Heaven-Piercing Fist, but the human’s punch shattered its attack and killed it.
• North Nether Saint recognized the mysterious Demigod as Xia Ping, his sole disciple.

Xia Ping appeared as the Human Race’s tenth demigod and effortlessly killed Cecily and dozens more demigod fiends, saving the Human Race saints from annihilation. The chapter left the Human Race, the other races, and the divine beast elders stunned by his overwhelming strength.

• The Human Race patriarchs and saints were shocked to discover that the newly arrived demigod was Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping killed Cecily with a single punch, leaving the fiends unable to understand how he had done it.
• Xia Ping struck a group of thirty or forty demigod fiends and killed them all with one punch.
• The Human Race saints realized Xia Ping had ended their crisis, while Carefree Patriarch and North Nether Saint marveled at how far he had surpassed them.
• The other races and the divine beast elders watched Xia Ping in disbelief, and Samuel grew grave as he studied him.

Xia Ping drew the forty-nine Sunshine Demons to him with his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline and killed them with a single claw. He stood amid the battle, ready to absorb the origin energy released by their deaths.

• The Abyss Demons raged after Xia Ping killed dozens of their demigods, but the Sunshine Demons sensed his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline and rushed toward him.
• The Sunshine Demons unleashed a sea of Abyssal Demonic Fire, forcing the other races’ Saints and the Abyss Demons to retreat.
• Xia Ping shattered the Sunshine Demons’ flames with a punch.
• Xia Ping used his Hell Golden Crow Claw to crush all forty-nine demigod-level Sunshine Demons, destroying their bodies and souls.
• Xia Ping recognized the dense origin energy from the fallen Sunshine Demons as a powerful source for awakening Hell Golden Crow Cells.

Xia Ping devoured the source energy of forty-nine Demigod Sunshine Demons, awakening fifteen trillion Hell Golden Crow Cells and bringing his total to ninety-five trillion. The Abyss Demons and Saints learned his identity and reacted with awe and fear at his overwhelming strength.

• Xia Ping absorbed the forty-nine Sunshine Demons' source energy and awakened fifteen trillion more Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• The Abyss Demons panicked after seeing Xia Ping kill the forty-nine Demigod Sunshine Demons with one claw strike.
• The myriad races' Saints recognized Xia Ping and speculated about his rapid cultivation and the time he had spent training.
• The Human Race Saints celebrated Xia Ping's strength, while North Nether Saint could not explain his disciple's astonishing growth.

Xia Ping slaughtered the Abyss Demons that charged at him, demonstrating overwhelming power and driving the surviving demons into retreat. The Devil Master finally entered the battle, and the Abyss Demons believed Xia Ping was doomed.

• The divine beast elders recognized Xia Ping’s potential to become a High-God or even a ruler, though they doubted he would survive the Devil Master.
• The Abyss Demons abandoned their attacks on the Saints and charged at Xia Ping to avenge their fallen Demigods.
• Xia Ping unleashed Hell Golden Crow Flame, burning more than half of the Abyss Demons to ash.
• Xia Ping killed the Demigod demons that attacked him with a punch, then struck five more times and destroyed hundreds of Demigod demons.
• The surviving Abyss Demons fled in terror, and the Devil Master stepped forward to fight Xia Ping.

Xia Ping killed the Devil Master with a single punch, overpowering its Godslaying Spear and destroying its body and soul. The Abyss Demons and the Saints of the myriad races were left stunned by his strength.

• The Devil Master attacked Xia Ping with the Godslaying Spear, unleashing power comparable to that of a lower god.
• Xia Ping fused the power of his nine great avatars into a punch that shattered the Devil Master's spear attack and obliterated its body.
• The Devil Master's soul tried to flee to the Abyssal Demon Tree, but Xia Ping's punch force destroyed it completely.
• The Abyss Demons and the Saints of the myriad races reacted in disbelief as they watched the Devil Master die.
• Carefree Patriarch asked North Nether Saint when Xia Ping had become so powerful, and North Nether Saint admitted he did not know.

After Xia Ping killed the Devil Master with one punch, Samuel explained to the Divine Beast elders that humanity’s Cosmic Virtual Network came from the supreme artifact Celestial Emperor Jade Seal, a relic of the long-dead Immortal Universe. The elders realized humanity had concealed a vast power and left the discussion fearing that humanity could become the universe’s strongest race.

• Xia Ping killed the Devil Master with one punch, shocking the Phoenix Race, Qilin Race, Black Tortoise Clan, and Pixiu Clan elders.
• The elders questioned Samuel about his confidence in humanity, and he said humanity’s foundation included the Cosmic Virtual Network.
• Samuel revealed that humanity possessed the Celestial Emperor Jade Seal, a supreme artifact from the Immortal Universe.
• Samuel told the elders that the Immortal Universe and the Hell Universe had both perished in a war between universes that had each lived through nine lives.
• Samuel explained that humanity had only revealed the Jade Seal’s Cosmic Virtual Network function and had not shown its full power.
• The Divine Beast elders concluded that humanity was terrifyingly powerful and feared it could become their greatest rival when the gods revived.

After the Devil Master’s death, the awakened Abyssal Demon Tree attacked Xia Ping, but the World Tree appeared and devoured it. With the Abyssal Demon Tree and its demonic power gone, the Present World Universe returned to normal.

• The Abyssal Demon Tree awakened, spread its will across nearly half the universe, and attacked Xia Ping with countless roots.
• The Abyssal Demon Tree’s roots stopped moving, and it cried out as Xia Ping activated the World Tree.
• The World Tree appeared and pierced the Abyssal Demon Tree with its roots, triggering the Parasitic Seed to seize control of it.
• The World Tree devoured the Abyssal Demon Tree and absorbed its roots, origin energy, and Abyssal Demonic Qi.
• The World Tree swept away nearby Abyss Demons and consumed the energy pouring from the abyssal passage, restoring the Present World Universe.

The World Tree took control of the Abyss and began merging with the Present World Universe, earning Xia Ping recognition from the universe’s origin will. He suppressed an imminent advance to High-God and resolved to unify the Hell Universe so he could gather enough origin energy to become a ruler-class god.

• The World Tree replaced the Abyssal Demon Tree, reshaped the Abyss, and rose to the peak of the demigod realm.
• The World Tree’s roots spread through the Present World Universe and into the chaotic void, devouring chaotic currents to accelerate the universe’s evolution.
• Xia Ping sensed that the Present World Universe’s origin will had recognized him, allowing him to draw on its energy and comprehend Great Dao laws with unprecedented speed.
• The universe’s origin energy flooded Xia Ping’s body, bringing him close to condensing a divine spark and advancing to High-God.
• Xia Ping suppressed his advancement because he wanted to reach the ruler realm, and concluded that he needed to unify the Hell Universe and gain its origin energy.

Xia Ping killed the Devil Master and destroyed the Abyssal Demon Tree, ending the Abyss Demons’ invasion and leaving the saints astonished by the Human Race’s power. The divine beast elders recognized the Human Race as a threat but departed without a plan to confront Xia Ping.

• The saints confirmed that the Abyssal Demon Tree was gone, the void passages had closed, and the Abyss Demons had retreated.
• The saints concluded that Xia Ping’s strength rivaled that of a god and feared that no other race could restrain the Human Race.
• The divine beast elders discussed the Human Race’s rising power and the coming age of gods, while arguing over how to respond to Xia Ping.
• Samuel looked deeply at Xia Ping and the Human Race Saints, then led the divine beast elders away.