Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping fought Xu Yunlong, matching the Martial Master’s King-level cold palm with the flames of his Ten Thousand Beasts Fist. Their exchange left Xu Yunlong badly injured and Xia Ping slightly hurt, with neither fighter yet defeated.

• Xu Yunlong unleashed June Flying Frost, but Xia Ping countered with Violent Ape Hammer, and their attacks shattered the ground around them.
• Xu Yunlong realized Xia Ping’s power threatened him and resolved to kill him.
• Xu Yunlong attacked with Ice Thunderball, launching a barrage of enormous ice balls at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used Rending Bear Hand to smash the ice balls and strike Xu Yunlong, sending him flying and making him spit blood.
• An ice ball struck Xia Ping and broke through Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, leaving him slightly injured as he staggered backward.

Xia Ping gained the beginnings of a Sun Furnace under Xu Yunlong’s attack and killed him with a powerful strike, though the effort left him badly injured. Xu Bowu then rushed at Xia Ping and was killed by a beam of true essence.

• Xu Yunlong unleashed his Mysterious Underworld Cold Palm, summoning a glacier that engulfed Xia Ping in freezing force.
• Xia Ping’s Pure Yang Indestructible Art reached a new level, forming the beginnings of a Sun Furnace in his dantian.
• Xia Ping used the Giant Elephant Axe to shatter Xu Yunlong’s glacier image and cleave Xu Yunlong in two.
• Xia Ping coughed up blood and suffered severe injuries after his strike nearly drained him.
• Xu Bowquan realized Xu Yunlong was dead, while Xu Bowu charged at the weakened Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping pierced Xu Bowu’s head with a streak of true essence, killing him.

Xia Ping killed the last surviving Xu Family attacker, Xu Boquan, then used a Spring Pill to begin recovering before entering the Cloud Mist Mountain Range. He found several Wood Origin Pills among Xu Yunlong’s belongings and headed toward the school gathering point.

• Xu Boquan fled and vowed to bring the Xu Family after Xia Ping, but Xia Ping hurled rubble through his throat and killed him.
• Xia Ping realized his true essence was exhausted and worried about entering the dangerous Cloud Mist Mountain Range while injured.
• Xia Ping refused the system’s costly top-grade healing pill and redeemed a Spring Pill for fifty thousand Hate Points.
• Xia Ping used Corpse-Dissolving Water to dispose of the Xu Family bodies and found a porcelain bottle containing Wood Origin Pills on Xu Yunlong.
• Xia Ping put away the pills and hurried toward the school before the gathering.

Xia Ping arrived at Yanhuang University's gates with his aura appearing dangerously weak, prompting students to speculate that his cultivation had gone wrong and to taunt him. He concealed that the Spring Pill had restored some of his strength, and the teacher's warning ended the confrontation before anyone could fight.

• More than ten thousand students gathered at Yanhuang University's gates to enter the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
• Students noticed Xia Ping's weak aura and speculated that he had injured himself while cultivating, while some hoped to take revenge on him.
• Xia Ping arrived in time, and the Spring Pill had restored thirty percent of his fighting strength despite his feeble outward aura.
• Mu Haoran mocked Xia Ping and offered him healing pills, but Xia Ping threatened to beat him and the students who joined in.
• A middle-aged teacher forbade fighting and warned that anyone who threw a punch would lose the right to enter the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.

Xia Ping decided to enter the Cloud Mist Mountain Range despite his injuries, while his enemies plotted to take revenge once they were inside. The students arrived at the mountain range and discovered that universities from other cities had also come.

• A teacher warned Xia Ping that entering the Cloud Mist Mountain Range while injured could be dangerous, but Xia Ping insisted he was well enough and meditated to recover.
• Mu Haoran, Xiao Yixuan, and other students discussed Xia Ping’s apparent weakness and planned to kill or punish him inside the Otherworldly Space.
• Su Ji resented having to enter with Xia Ping but focused on her goal of obtaining the Water of Life.
• The students boarded a Super Warship, traveled more than a hundred thousand kilometers, and arrived at the mist-shrouded Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
• After disembarking, the students saw groups from other Super Warships, and one student explained that universities from the Cloud Sky Realm’s super cities had also come.

Xia Ping arrived with Yanhuang University’s students and drew attention from rival-school students and instructors, who discussed his fame, strength, and suspected injury. A black-clad man then attacked him without warning, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Students from other universities recognized Xia Ping and discussed his victories over Yanhuang University’s upperclassmen and the rise of his Pingtian Sect.
• Instructors debated whether Xia Ping’s rapid cultivation had damaged him, while an elderly peak Grandmaster said his fate depended on what happened in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
• Xia Ping joked that he had become famous, and Su Ji told him he was notorious.
• A black-clad man approached Xia Ping with more than a dozen students behind him and launched a vicious claw strike.

Xia Ping defeated Miao Ze, a Ninth-Heaven martial artist from the King Family, and forced him to his knees after Miao Ze attacked him. As Xia Ping prepared to punish Miao Ze again, a powerful young man in green intervened and sent Xia Ping stumbling back.

• Miao Ze ambushed Xia Ping and mocked him, but Xia Ping countered with Rending Bear Hand and slammed him into the ground.
• When Miao Ze refused to submit, Xia Ping struck again and forced him to his knees in front of the watching students.
• The students identified Miao Ze as a Ninth-Heaven martial artist with the Variegated Snake bloodline, while Mu Haoran and the others resented hearing their defeats brought up.
• Miao Ze remained defiant, and Xia Ping prepared to strike him again.
• A young man in green launched a powerful fist at Xia Ping, who blocked it but stumbled back several steps as the newcomer approached.

Nie Zhen confronted Xia Ping over his treatment of Miao Ze, but Qiu Wanqian and Chang Bin arrived before the dispute could turn into a fight. As Chang Bin challenged Xia Ping, the Cloud Mist Mountain Range began to open.

• Nie Zhen accused Xia Ping of humiliating Miao Ze and demanded an apology, while Xia Ping argued that Miao Ze had attacked him first.
• Qiu Wanqian intervened and urged Nie Zhen to settle the dispute after entering the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
• Chang Bin arrived and challenged the others to fight, turning the confrontation into a gathering of the four schools' top experts.
• Nie Zhen rescued Miao Ze and left after threatening Xia Ping, who taunted him to attack immediately.
• Chang Bin challenged Xia Ping, but the Cloud Mist Mountain Range began to tremble and the students realized it was opening.

Xia Ping and the other students entered the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, learning that it was a demonic realm sealing an ancient demon and that they had one month to escape. The group was confronted by a horde of Bat Demons led by a Martial Master Realm monster.

• The students rushed through the portal and crossed a rune-covered tunnel that prevented Martial Master Realm experts from entering.
• Xia Ping and the others emerged into a dark, demonic landscape filled with black soil, poisonous swamps, and scattered skeletons.
• A student explained that the Water of Life was kept at a Sealing Altar in the range's spatial maze to suppress an ancient demon, and warned that poisonous fog would kill anyone who stayed after the entrance closed.
• Xia Ping sensed danger as Bat Demons flew toward the students, and their leader ordered the monsters to devour the humans.
• The students recognized the Bat Demons as powerful creatures, with the leader at the First Heaven of Martial Master Realm.

Students in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range fought the Bat Demons as many broke through to the Martial Master Realm. Xia Ping killed a group of attackers with Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, then fled the battlefield to recover from his injuries while Miao Ze and the others remained behind.

• The Bat Demons attacked the students, and hundreds of students broke through to the Martial Master Realm, with their numbers quickly rising into the thousands.
• More than a dozen Bat Demons surrounded Xia Ping, but he killed them with a roar from Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds.
• Xia Ping realized his true essence was draining quickly and decided to seek shelter and recover from his injuries.
• Xia Ping used Kunpeng Step to fly away at great speed, evading the Bat Demons' attacks and leaving the battlefield.
• Miao Ze, Nie Zhen, and the others saw Xia Ping escape and resented him for abandoning them in the fight.

Miao Ze and Nie Zhen vowed to kill Xia Ping for humiliating them, while Xia Ping hid in a secluded cave to heal and cultivate. After three days, he recovered from his injuries and reached the peak of the Ninth Heaven of Martial Artist Realm, gaining enough strength to believe he could kill a Martial Master.

• Miao Ze urged Nie Zhen to help him kill Xia Ping, and Nie Zhen agreed, saying Xia Ping had insulted them both.
• Xia Ping escaped the Bat Demons and found a secluded cave deep in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
• Xia Ping swallowed Wood Origin Pills and used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art to heal his injuries and strengthen his true qi.
• After three days of cultivation, Xia Ping's injuries had healed, his ninth acupoint was full, and his strength had risen to the peak of the Ninth Heaven of Martial Artist Realm.
• Xia Ping's true essence grew until he could unleash forty Martial Master-level attacks, and he believed he could kill a Martial Master.

After three days of cultivation, Xia Ping left his cave with his strength nearing the Martial Master Realm and headed toward the center of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range to find the Water of Life. He killed more than a hundred Bat Demons with a palm infused with the embryonic Sun True Fire, collected their Demon Cores, and continued toward his goal.

• Xia Ping shattered the boulder blocking his cave and sensed that he was close to the Martial Master Realm.
• Xia Ping set out for the center of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range to obtain the Water of Life.
• More than a hundred Bat Demons spotted Xia Ping and charged at him.
• Xia Ping struck the swarm with his Immoveable Tathagata Palm, and his embryonic Sun True Fire burned the Bat Demons to death.
• Xia Ping found more than a hundred Demon Cores and stored them in his Space Ring for later refinement.

Miao Ze and seven God of War Academy students ambushed Xia Ping in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, intending to kill him under the protection of a Life and Death Contract. Xia Ping dodged their spears and struck Miao Ze with a flaming punch, sending him crashing into a mountain wall.

• Miao Ze's group spotted Xia Ping while searching for spirit herbs and decided to kill him for revenge.
• The students hurled black spears at Xia Ping, but he escaped with the Kunpeng Step.
• Miao Ze confronted Xia Ping and claimed killings in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range had no consequences under the Life and Death Contract.
• Miao Ze released poisonous vapor with his awakened Variegated Snake bloodline and attacked Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping's flaming punch burned away the poison and sent Miao Ze flying into the mountain wall.

Xia Ping defeated Miao Ze despite Miao Ze’s advancement to the Martial Master Realm, then killed him after Miao Ze’s classmates threatened him. He left the seven students who attacked him injured and sprawled across the ground.

• Miao Ze charged at Xia Ping after rejecting his defeat, but Xia Ping struck him down and pinned him in a crater.
• Miao Ze threatened Xia Ping and several students warned him not to kill the heir of the Miao Family.
• Xia Ping killed Miao Ze with a palm strike and challenged the students to act against him.
• Seven First Heaven of Martial Master Realm students attacked Xia Ping, but his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art repelled their blows and sent them flying.

Xia Ping killed Miao Ze and the six students who tried to flee, then concealed his identity and disposed of their bodies. He continued toward the center of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range to seek the Water of Life.

• The seven students fled in different directions after realizing they could not defeat Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art to pursue and kill all seven students with tracking stones.
• Xia Ping checked the bodies, decided to hide his identity, and exchanged a thousand Hate Points for a Skin Mask that changed his appearance and aura.
• Xia Ping used Corpse-Dissolving Water to melt the bodies and took the students' spirit medicines and pills.
• Xia Ping left for the center of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range to find the Water of Life.

Xia Ping reached the Cloud Mist Mountain Range’s central region and learned that eighteen thousand shifting mountains formed a supreme formation suppressing the Evil Demons. As students gathered to search for the Water of Life, a group of Martial Master Realm experts invited them to join forces, but Xia Ping suspected they had ulterior motives.

• Xia Ping entered the central region and saw the vast mountain chain within its spatial barrier.
• Students explained that eighteen thousand mountains formed a formation to suppress the Evil Demons and that the Water of Life lay near a shifting Central Altar.
• The students learned that each mountain held a dangerous space filled with monsters, making the search difficult and dependent on luck.
• A blue-clad Martial Master Realm student invited Xia Ping and the others to search together and share any Water of Life they found.
• Xia Ping suspected that the Martial Master Realm students had ulterior motives.

Xia Ping refused to join a group of Martial Master Level experts who were recruiting students to search for the Water of Life. He accused them of planning to use the students as cannon fodder, and one of the seniors tried to turn the crowd against him.

• Several students tried to decline the green-clad young man's invitation and leave, but he used threats and promises to pressure them into joining.
• Xia Ping said he preferred to act alone, angering the young man's companions.
• Xia Ping explained that the Martial Master Level experts intended to use the students to scout dangerous mountains as cannon fodder.
• The students recognized the danger in the experts' offer, while a buzz-cut student accused Xia Ping of possibly being a monster in disguise and suggested seizing him.

Xia Ping exposed the men in green’s attempt to force the students into danger, so they tried to make an example of him. He revealed overwhelming strength under the fake name Wu Wudi and began fighting their Martial Master experts, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The man in green accused Xia Ping of suspicious behavior and sent three senior students to seize him.
• Xia Ping defeated the three Martial Master experts with one palm strike and trampled them beneath his feet.
• The man in green demanded Xia Ping’s name, and Xia Ping gave the fake name Wu Wudi.
• The man in green ordered more than a dozen Martial Master experts to attack Xia Ping with the Hungry Tiger Saber Technique.
• Xia Ping countered with the Immovable Tathagata Palm, and the clash devastated the surrounding terrain and wounded students caught in the shockwaves.

Xia Ping defeated the men in blue and their allies, then forced them to choose between dying and obeying him completely. The group was left beaten and terrified as Xia Ping declared that he would make them his slaves.

• The men in blue and their allies attacked Xia Ping with a barrage of blade strikes, but he countered with Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds and sent most of them flying.
• Xia Ping struck down the few men who tried to flee with distant fist imprints, leaving the entire group unable to stand.
• The surrounding students praised Wu Wudi’s strength, comparing him to elite students from prominent academies.
• Xia Ping threatened the defeated men with death, slapped the man in blue when he begged for mercy, and rejected another student’s appeal to their shared school ties.
• Xia Ping ordered the men to obey him completely, and when one called it slavery, he slapped him aside and confirmed that they had to serve him or die.

Xia Ping killed a student who challenged his threat, forcing the Martial Master Realm and Martial Artist Realm students to submit as his slaves. He sent them into the nearby mountains to search for the Water of Life.

• Xia Ping demanded that the men in green submit, but a man in white called his threat a bluff and threatened to report him.
• Xia Ping killed the man in white with a single strike, terrifying the students and ending their hopes that he would hesitate to kill.
• The men in green begged for their lives and agreed to become Xia Ping's slaves.
• Xia Ping confronted another group of students, and they also submitted rather than risk being killed.
• Xia Ping ordered the students to search the nearby mountains for the Water of Life.