Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping defeated Zhong Yuan, who surrendered after being beaten, and then quickly overpowered an arrogant Sixth Heaven opponent from Cloud Sky Realm. He remained in the arena after earning three points for each victory.

• Zhong Yuan accused Xia Ping of hiding his cultivation, so Xia Ping punched and pummeled him until he surrendered.
• The Optical Brain ended the match, awarded Xia Ping three points, and gave him a fifteen-minute break to recover.
• A man in blue appeared and demanded that Xia Ping surrender, boasting about his strength and his earlier victory over a Yanhuang Planet student.
• Xia Ping struck the man in blue before he could react, knocked out his teeth, and broke his nose with a follow-up punch.
• The man in blue lost consciousness, and the computer-generated voice declared Xia Ping the winner and awarded him three points.

Xia Ping defeated all fifty opponents in the incoming students' ranking competition, using the fights to strengthen his martial foundations and finishing first. He was transported to a crowded plaza, where Feng Hetang and the others congratulated him.

• Xia Ping taunted and defeated a short-haired Fifth Heaven Martial Artist, standing firm through three minutes of punches before knocking him out.
• Xia Ping provoked and overcame opponent after opponent from the Cloud Sky Realm, relying on his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to withstand their attacks.
• A mechanical voice announced that Xia Ping had completed fifty matches, earned one hundred and fifty points, and ranked first among the incoming students.
• Xia Ping reflected that the Cloud Sky Realm students were formidable and that the competition had strengthened his power and true energy.
• Xia Ping was transported to a plaza, where Feng Hetang, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, Nangong Wu, and the others congratulated him on taking first place.

Xia Ping reviewed the freshman rankings, learned about top contenders Xiao Yixuan and Su Ji, and found that Mu Bancheng had placed tenth. After the school assigned him a luxurious villa as the top-ranked freshman, his victory stirred anger among many Cloud Sky Realm students.

• The school posted the freshman rankings, and Xia Ping received 10,000 student points for finishing first with a perfect score.
• Feng Hetang and Jiang Yaru told Xia Ping about second-place Xiao Yixuan and third-place Su Ji, while Xia Ping joked about pursuing Su Ji despite warnings about her powerful family and admirers.
• Xia Ping noticed Mu Bancheng had placed tenth and learned that most of the other top contestants had scored closely behind him.
• Xia Ping and his companions checked their dorm assignments and traveled by free school bus to the dormitory area.
• Xia Ping discovered that his first-place reward was a guarded 300-square-meter luxury villa and entered it with his student chip.
• News of Xia Ping's victory caused an uproar, and many Cloud Sky Realm freshmen were shocked and dissatisfied.

Cloud Sky Realm students protested Xia Ping’s first-place finish, convinced a Yanhuang Planet student could only have won through favoritism. After Xia Ping’s beaten opponents described his taunts and brutality, a teacher insisted the tournament was fair and offered surveillance footage for 5,000 points.

• Cloud Sky Realm students accused Xia Ping of receiving special treatment because of his low cultivation and Yanhuang Planet origins.
• A battered student said Xia Ping had beaten him viciously, even after he surrendered, and claimed Xia Ping had targeted Cloud Sky Realm students.
• Other injured students recounted Xia Ping insulting their school, selection system, strength, and appearance, stirring the crowd’s anger.
• The Cloud Sky Realm students demanded to know where Xia Ping was and threatened to teach him a lesson.
• A teacher announced that the tournament had been controlled fairly by the Optical Brain and that students could view surveillance footage for 5,000 points.
• The students dismissed the offer as too costly and continued to doubt the tournament’s fairness.

After Xia Ping won the Freshman Ranking Tournament, Cloud Sky Realm students accused him of rigging the matchups and resented the school’s order against further complaints. Xiao Yixuan dismissed the tournament as minor, while Su Ji said Xia Ping’s true ability would soon become clear.

• Cloud Sky Realm students blamed Xia Ping for bribing school administrators and manipulating the tournament matchups, while doubting anyone could prove it through an investigation.
• Xiao Yixuan’s companions urged him to punish Xia Ping for taking first place and costing him five thousand points, but Xiao Yixuan stayed calm and called the tournament unimportant.
• Xiao Yixuan told his companions that strength mattered more than schemes, and they laughed off Xia Ping as no threat.
• Su Ji’s companions discussed Xia Ping’s victory and the rumors that he had used connections to win.
• Su Ji said that if Xia Ping was a fraud, Yanhuang University would soon make his life miserable.

Xia Ping spent 400,000 Hate Points to learn the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds and the Immovable Tathagata Palm. After testing the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds in his villa, he destroyed the room and was warned to use the Training Room instead.

• Xia Ping found he had 647,563 Hate Points and chose the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds and the Immovable Tathagata Palm to expand his combat techniques.
• Xia Ping exchanged 400,000 Hate Points, and the techniques' teachings entered his mind.
• Xia Ping tested the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds with a roar that shattered the villa's windows and cracked the ground.
• Security guards arrived, and Xia Ping admitted he had caused the damage while testing a technique.
• The guards fined Xia Ping one hundred points and told him to practice in the Training Room or school grounds.
• Xia Ping headed to the villa's Training Room to continue learning the Immovable Tathagata Palm.

Xia Ping practiced the Immovable Tathagata Palm and Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, growing stronger after three days of training at Yanhuang University. Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, Feng Hetang, and Nangong Wu visited his villa and described how their King Realm techniques had helped them advance.

• Xia Ping contemplated the Buddha through the Immovable Tathagata Palm all night and found his true qi, soul, and mental power strengthened.
• Xia Ping spent three days mastering the Immovable Tathagata Palm and Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, reaching the peak of the Fifth Heaven of Martial Artist Realm.
• Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, Feng Hetang, and Nangong Wu arrived at Xia Ping’s villa, each having exchanged their points for a King Realm technique.
• Jiang Yaru and Chu Rong said their techniques had helped them reach the Third Heaven, while Nangong Wu and Feng Hetang explained the powers of theirs.
• Xia Ping concluded that Yanhuang University’s starting points were meant to encourage students to obtain powerful techniques.

Xia Ping agreed to join Jiang Yaru and the others on a trip to the Yin Corpse Mountain Range to hunt zombies and earn rewards. As they left the villa, a group of veteran students confronted him, and one of them attacked after Xia Ping refused to answer his demands.

• Feng Hetang invited Xia Ping to join the group on a zombie-hunting trip to the Yin Corpse Mountain Range, and Jiang Yaru explained its dangers and rewards.
• Nangong Wu explained that the range's strange domain barred anyone above the Martial Master Realm, while its monsters and spirit herbs offered valuable loot.
• Xia Ping agreed to go to the range to test his strength and seek Yin Energy Beads that might help him reach the Sixth Heaven.
• As the group left the villa, five or six powerful veteran students approached and the man in blue demanded to know whether Xia Ping was there.
• Xia Ping told the man in blue to get lost, and the man attacked; Xia Ping dodged with Kunpeng Step, leaving the attack to smash a nearby wall.

Xu Jianhua confronted Xia Ping over the deaths of his cousins and attacked him with the Yin Wind Scorching Sun Fist. A middle-aged man in black intervened before Xu Jianhua could strike again, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Jiang Yaru challenged Xu Jianhua and his companions for attacking students on campus, but Xu Jianhua dismissed the threat of expulsion.
• Xu Jianhua identified himself as a member of the Xu Family and accused Xia Ping of killing his two cousins during the entrance exam.
• Xu Jianhua attacked with the Yin Wind Scorching Sun Fist, and Xia Ping blocked him with the Immovable Tathagata Palm before being blasted backward.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to refine the attack's force, while Xu Jianhua remained displeased that Xia Ping had survived.
• Xu Jianhua tried to attack Xia Ping again, but a middle-aged man in black struck Xu Jianhua away and reprimanded the senior students for fighting on campus.

A dormitory teacher stopped Xu Jianhua and his companions from fighting Xia Ping, but let them go after learning Xu Jianhua’s brother was an Elite Student. Xia Ping and his friends learned about Yanhuang University’s student ranks and resolved to grow stronger, with the Yin Corpse Mountain Range as their next opportunity.

• A black-clad dormitory teacher stopped Xu Jianhua and his companions from fighting Xia Ping, then spared them after Xu Jianhua mentioned his Elite Student brother.
• Nangong Wu explained that Elite Students had to reach the Martial Master Realm within four years, while Feng Hetang said Core Students were at least Grandmasters.
• The teacher warned Xia Ping and his companions that the students could target them outside campus, where school rules would not protect them.
• Xia Ping vowed to kill Xu Jianhua’s group after breaking through, while Jiang Yaru warned that they were formidable Ninth Heaven fighters.
• Nangong Wu urged the group to head to the Yin Corpse Mountain Range to find a chance to break through.

Xia Ping and his friends learned that all spacecraft tickets to Yin Corpse City were sold out for a week, then ran into Zhong Yuan, who mocked them and offered tickets only if Xia Ping knelt and apologized. After Zhong Yuan left with his group, Xia Ping calmly revealed that he had another way to reach the city, leaving his friends curious about his plan.

• Xia Ping, Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, Nangong Wu, and Feng Hetang discovered that every ticket to Yin Corpse City was sold out for a week.
• Zhong Yuan and his Cloud Sky Realm companions mocked Xia Ping and blamed him for cheating in the Freshman Ranking Tournament.
• Zhong Yuan offered Xia Ping tickets only if he knelt and apologized, but Xia Ping insulted him instead.
• Zhong Yuan stopped his lackeys from attacking Xia Ping and left with them to catch their spacecraft.
• Xia Ping told Jiang Yaru and the others that he had another way to reach Yin Corpse City, surprising them.

Xia Ping bought a private spaceship with his Giant Corporation employee discount and set off with Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, Nangong Wu, and Feng Hetang for Yin Corpse Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Xu Jianhua and the older students plotted to kill Xia Ping once he left Yanhuang University.

• Xia Ping told Feng Hetang, Nangong Wu, Chu Rong, and Jiang Yaru that he would buy a spaceship to travel to Yin Corpse Mountain Range.
• The sales center manager showed Xia Ping the God of Light spaceship and offered it for twenty billion Federal Coins with his employee discount.
• Xia Ping paid for the spaceship, registered it as its owner, and ordered it to fly to Yin Corpse Mountain Range with his companions aboard.
• Xia Ping thought that if they encountered Xu Jianhua, he would kill him with the spaceship's power.
• Xu Jianhua told the older students that he had sent people to watch Xia Ping and would kill him when he left Yanhuang University.

Xu Jianhua and the senior students learned that Xia Ping owned a God of Light spaceship and plotted to ambush him at the Yin Corpse Mountain Range. At Yin Corpse City, students gathered to watch the luxurious spaceship land as its hatch opened.

• Xiao Li told Xu Jianhua that Xia Ping had bought a God of Light spaceship and traveled to the Yin Corpse Mountain Range.
• Xu Jianhua and the senior students, greedy for Xia Ping’s wealth, decided to pursue and kill him after he left his spaceship.
• Xu Jianhua said his older brother could arrange a private spaceship because tickets to the mountain range were sold out.
• Zhong Yuan and the other students arrived at Yin Corpse City and saw the God of Light descend.
• The students speculated about the spaceship’s wealthy owner and watched as its hatch opened.

Xia Ping arrived in Yin Corpse City aboard his private spaceship and mocked Zhong Yuan and the Cloud Sky Realm students for traveling by public transport. Lv Weihai then approached Jiang Yaru, and his strange power left her dazed as she began to accept his dinner invitation.

• Xia Ping stepped off his private spaceship with Jiang Yaru and the others, astonishing the students and enraging Zhong Yuan’s group with their envy.
• Xia Ping greeted Zhong Yuan and taunted him about traveling by public spaceship and struggling to get tickets.
• Lv Weihai arrived, mocked Zhong Yuan, and invited Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Nangong Wu to dinner.
• Jiang Yaru rejected Lv Weihai, and Feng Hetang mocked him for hitting on her in front of Xia Ping.
• Lv Weihai used a strange power on Jiang Yaru, making her mind hazy until she began to agree to his invitation.

Xia Ping stopped Lv Weihai from controlling Jiang Yaru with the Lv Family’s Soul Bewitching Technique and defeated the students who attacked him. After the group exposed Lv Weihai’s misconduct, he unleashed a much stronger mental attack on Xia Ping, leaving him wavering on the verge of kneeling.

• Lv Weihai used the Soul Bewitching Technique to make Jiang Yaru walk toward him, but Xia Ping disrupted the technique with Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds and blasted Lv Weihai away.
• Lv Weihai’s companions attacked Xia Ping, and Xia Ping drove them back with the Ten Thousand Beasts Fist’s Rending Bear Hand.
• The students recognized the Soul Bewitching Technique and condemned Lv Weihai for using it on Jiang Yaru; Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Nangong Wu became furious.
• Xia Ping demanded that Lv Weihai kneel and apologize, threatening to cripple him if he refused.
• Lv Weihai retaliated with a powerful Soul Bewitching Technique that clouded Xia Ping’s consciousness and made his body bend as if he were about to kneel.

Xia Ping turned Lv Weihai’s mental attack back on him, leaving him severely brain-damaged, then claimed self-defense when airport staff arrived. The surveillance footage confirmed Lv Weihai had struck first, and Xia Ping threatened to sue him and involve Giant Corporation.

• Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, Nangong Wu, and Feng Hetang worried as Lv Weihai’s mental attack appeared to make Xia Ping submit.
• Xia Ping revealed he had resisted the attack and used the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds to send Lv Weihai flying and inflict severe brain damage.
• Lv Weihai’s lackeys accused Xia Ping of attacking them, while Xia Ping said he had acted in self-defense and called for the surveillance footage to be checked.
• Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, and Nangong Wu testified that Lv Weihai had struck first, and airport staff reviewed footage confirming their account.
• Xia Ping demanded that Lv Weihai be punished and threatened to sue him and bring Giant Corporation into the matter.

After leaving the airport, Xia Ping and his companions prepared to enter the Yin Corpse Mountain Range, while the injured Lv Weihai plotted revenge from the hospital. The chapter ended with Lv Weihai sending his underlings to hire outlaws to kill Xia Ping and capture the women traveling with him.

• Xia Ping demanded that the airport staff handle the incident impartially, and they took Lv Weihai and the injured students to the hospital.
• Xia Ping agreed to stay overnight in Yin Corpse City so he and his companions could prepare supplies and equipment for the mountain range.
• Jiang Yaru and Feng Hetang warned Xia Ping about Lv Weihai's Dark Crow Bloodline and powerful Lv Family, but Xia Ping said he did not regret confronting him.
• Lv Weihai recovered consciousness at the hospital and vowed to take revenge on Xia Ping.
• One of Lv Weihai's underlings proposed hiring outlaws in Yin Corpse City, and Lv Weihai ordered them to kill Xia Ping and capture his companions' women.

Xia Ping and his companions entered the Yin Corpse Mountain Range and were ambushed by skeletons and a Zombie General. Xia Ping countered the general with his Buddhist palm technique, sending him fleeing.

• Xia Ping and his companions left Yin Corpse City and traveled into the poison-filled Yin Corpse Mountain Range, protecting themselves with true qi.
• Jiang Yaru and Nangong Wu warned the group about the poisonous air and dangerous Bone Trees as they advanced through the range.
• Xia Ping sensed an ambush, and skeletons rose from the ground as a Zombie General on a Skeleton Horse appeared and charged the group.
• Xia Ping met the Zombie General's broadsword strike with a punch, then purified the surrounding yin energy with the Immovable Tathagata Palm.
• Xia Ping struck the Zombie General in the chest and destroyed his Skeleton Horse, causing the wounded general to flee.

Xia Ping chased the Zombie General into his mountain tomb while Jiang Yaru, Chu Rong, Nangong Wu, and Feng Hetang fought the Skeleton Soldiers outside. Inside, Xia Ping defeated the tomb’s defenders, gathered Yin Energy Beads, and came close to breaking through to the Martial Artist Sixth Heaven Realm.

• Xia Ping crushed the Skeleton Soldiers blocking his pursuit, and the Zombie General fled into a mountain cave.
• Nangong Wu identified the cave as the Zombie General’s tomb, and Xia Ping entered alone while the others stayed outside.
• Xia Ping followed the Zombie General’s scent through the maze-like passageways and destroyed the Blood-Colored Skeleton Soldiers and armored zombies with Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds.
• Xia Ping collected more than a hundred Yin Energy Beads and absorbed their energy, loosening his bottleneck before the Martial Artist Sixth Heaven Realm.

Xia Ping fought the Zombie General and six Cyan Zombies in the underground palace, killing the general and absorbing its Yin Energy Bead. He broke through to the Martial Artist Sixth Heaven Realm as the remaining Cyan Zombies fled.

• The Zombie General summoned six Cyan Zombies, and all seven attacked Xia Ping at once.
• Xia Ping used the Immovable Tathagata Palm to overwhelm the zombies and blast them into the palace walls.
• Xia Ping killed the Zombie General with a golden palm strike, and it burned to ashes, leaving behind a Yin Energy Bead.
• Xia Ping refined the Yin Energy Bead and broke through to the Martial Artist Sixth Heaven Realm.
• The six surviving Cyan Zombies fled through the underground passages, afraid to face Xia Ping.