Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping visited the Lawless Gang's headquarters in West Desolate City to buy information about the Wind-Chasing Thieves' hideout. He revealed that he planned to use the heavily armed God of Light to destroy them once he learned their location.

• Xia Ping and Hu San reached the Lawless Gang's headquarters, where guards tried to stop them.
• Xia Ping threw a hundred thousand Federal Coins at the guards, and a middle-aged Lawless Gang supervisor welcomed him inside.
• Xia Ping asked the supervisor for the location of the Wind-Chasing Thieves' lair and explained that he had accepted a school mission to kill them.
• The supervisor warned Xia Ping that the Wind-Chasing Thieves had evaded the Federation's police for years.
• Xia Ping said he would bombard the thieves with the God of Light's weapons, leaving the Lawless Gang members stunned.

Xia Ping paid the Lawless Gang to find the Wind-Chasing Thieves, dismissing the cost and demanding results within a day. After he left, the gang’s members worried that exposing the thieves would destroy their profitable partnership and that Xia Ping’s wealth and private spacecraft made him too dangerous to refuse.

• Xia Ping told the black-clad, middle-aged man that money was no obstacle and demanded information on the Wind-Chasing Thieves within a day.
• The black-clad, middle-aged man agreed to investigate for a billion Federal Coins, and Xia Ping gave him the Starlight Hotel as his contact location.
• A subordinate reported that Xia Ping owned the heavily armed private spacecraft God of Light, which was worth tens of billions of Federal Coins.
• A subordinate revealed that the Lawless Gang secretly sold the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ stolen goods and earned more than half its income from them.
• The Lawless Gang members feared that refusing Xia Ping or hiding the thieves’ stronghold could lead another gang member to betray them for his bounty.
• The black-clad, middle-aged man ordered everyone to keep quiet and left to speak with the gang leader.

Salida introduced Kou Gao, the boss of the Wind-Chasing Thieves, and discussed a five-billion-Federal-Coin deal involving stolen goods. After Chen reported that Xia Ping was targeting the thieves, Kou Gao and Salida agreed to eliminate him before he could find their hideout.

• Liu entered the lounge and found Salida meeting with Kou Gao, the boss of the Wind-Chasing Thieves.
• Salida told Chen to establish sales channels for Kou Gao's stolen pills and spirit medicines in West Desolate City.
• Chen reported that Xia Ping had arrived and was threatening to wipe out the Wind-Chasing Thieves.
• Kou Gao smashed the table in anger and accused Salida of possibly betraying him to Xia Ping.
• Salida assured Kou Gao that the Lawless Gang would protect their interests, and Kou Gao said he would gather his men to kill Xia Ping.

Xia Ping let the Wind-Chasing Thieves drug and capture him so he could discover their hideout. They brought him to their hidden stronghold inside a remote mountain, where their leader Kou Gao had him awakened.

• Xia Ping sensed the Wind-Chasing Thieves outside his hotel suite and realized his plan to draw them out had worked.
• The thieves pumped knockout gas into Xia Ping's room, but his Pure Yang Indestructible Art burned it away, and he pretended to pass out.
• The thieves carried Xia Ping out of the Starlight Hotel and drove him more than a thousand kilometers to their concealed mountain stronghold.
• Kou Gao ordered his men to wake Xia Ping, and Xia Ping opened his eyes while bound in chains.

Xia Ping revealed that he had let the Wind-Chasing Thieves capture him so he could reach their hideout and destroy them. After killing Baldy with one punch, he faced the remaining bandits as the hall began to shake.

• Kou Gao admitted that the Lawless Gang had betrayed Xia Ping because it partnered with the Wind-Chasing Thieves.
• Baldy attacked Xia Ping with a Wolf Fang Club, but Xia Ping unleashed his power, melted his chains, and killed Baldy with one punch.
• Xia Ping revealed he had pretended to be helpless so the Wind-Chasing Thieves would take him to their hideout.
• The Wind-Chasing Thieves recognized Xia Ping as a powerful opponent but urged each other to attack him together.
• Xia Ping vowed to kill every Wind-Chasing Thief and stomped the ground, shaking the hall like an earthquake.

Xia Ping used his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art and Hell Golden Crow flames to overwhelm the Wind-Chasing Thieves. As the surviving thieves panicked, his second Hell Golden Crow Cell awakened, breaking through two more meridians and greatly increasing his power.

• The Wind-Chasing Thieves attacked Xia Ping with a coordinated barrage of wind blades, but his shield blocked them and sent them flying back, killing and injuring many.
• Xia Ping struck back with flaming attacks, burning more than a dozen thieves to ash.
• Xia Ping awakened his second Hell Golden Crow Cell, and the resulting life-origin energy broke through his fourteenth and fifteenth meridians.
• The surviving Wind-Chasing Thieves recognized Xia Ping as a terrifying threat and regretted bringing him to their hideout.

Xia Ping defeated Kou Gao with a single palm and rejected the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ pleas for mercy, killing one thief without hearing his story. He declared that his mission was to kill the bandits, and the survivors realized they could not reason with him.

• Kou Gao attacked Xia Ping with the Ghost Wind Blade Technique, but Xia Ping shattered his attack and slammed him into a cliff with the Immovable Tathagata Palm.
• The terrified Wind-Chasing Thieves watched their leader suffer severe injuries and lose most of his fighting strength.
• A bald thief begged Xia Ping for mercy and explained how injustice had driven him to become an outlaw, but Xia Ping killed him before he could finish.
• A thief condemned Xia Ping for killing the bald man, while Xia Ping said the bandits’ grievances did not matter because he had accepted a mission to kill them.
• The remaining Wind-Chasing Thieves realized that Xia Ping would not be swayed by their pleas or excuses.

Xia Ping survived Kou Gao’s cave-in trap and pursued the fleeing Wind-Chasing Thieves through an underground passage. He killed Kou Gao and the remaining thieves, then sensed that their treasure might be hidden at the passage’s end.

• Xia Ping burned more than a dozen Wind-Chasing Thieves to ashes as Kou Gao activated the cave’s self-destruct mechanism.
• Kou Gao and some of his men escaped through an opening while falling boulders crushed the thieves left behind; Xia Ping shattered the rocks and followed them.
• Xia Ping caught up with the fleeing thieves and killed them with the Rending Bear Hand, leaving Kou Gao badly wounded.
• Kou Gao begged for his life and offered his treasure, but Xia Ping killed him before he could use the remote control in his hand.
• Xia Ping detected an unusual scent and suspected that the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ treasure lay at the end of the tunnel.

Xia Ping opened the Wind-Chasing Thieves' treasury and discovered a vast hoard of wealth, rare pills, weapons, and martial arts manuals. He also found and refined the cursed Spear of Hell, leaving it under his control despite its corrupting power.

• Xia Ping used Kou Gao's corpse to pass the treasury door's retinal and fingerprint scans and opened the chamber.
• Xia Ping surveyed the thieves' enormous treasure hoard and found valuable Wood Spirit Pills and thirteen Snow Lotus Pills.
• Xia Ping spotted a sealed black box among the weapons, broke it open, and revealed the Spear of Hell.
• The spear attacked Xia Ping with corrupting energy and an illusion, but his Hell Golden Crow Cells shattered its assault.
• Xia Ping refined the Spear of Hell with his true essence and mental power, becoming its master and resisting its dark influence.

Xia Ping tested the Spear of Hell and expanded his Space Ring with Hate Points, discovering it could hold living things and move under his control. After taking every treasure from the vault, he prepared to return to West Desolate City and confront the person who had betrayed his whereabouts.

• Xia Ping infused the Spear of Hell with true essence, tested its power, and found that he could summon it from within a kilometer.
• Xia Ping spent two million Hate Points to expand his Space Ring by two thousand cubic meters.
• Xia Ping entered the Space Ring and discovered it could sustain living things and be moved with his spiritual power.
• Xia Ping transferred every treasure in the vault into the Space Ring, leaving nothing behind.
• Xia Ping set out for West Desolate City, determined to deal with the person who had betrayed his whereabouts.

Xia Ping returned to the Lawless Gang’s headquarters after surviving the Wind-Chasing Thieves’ kidnapping and demanded an explanation for the gang’s offense. When the guards tried to block him, he killed their captain at the entrance, leaving the Lawless Gang and the watching crowd in shock.

• The Lawless Gang’s guards discussed Xia Ping’s visit the previous day, while their captain insisted he would not return and ordered them to keep quiet.
• The guards spotted Xia Ping approaching, and the captain falsely claimed the gang’s supervisor was away on business.
• Xia Ping demanded that the Lawless Gang’s person in charge come out and answer for offending him.
• When the captain threatened Xia Ping and refused to let him enter, Xia Ping pierced his chest with a sword of true essence.
• Xia Ping destroyed the captain’s body with his qi, and the horrified onlookers predicted that the Lawless Gang would retaliate.

Xia Ping confronted the Lawless Gang over its betrayal, accusing it of selling his information to the Wind-Chasing Thieves. When its members demanded proof and threatened to capture him, he declared that he would destroy the gang and attacked them.

• A Lawless Gang guard saw Xia Ping kill the captain and called for help, drawing several experts who blocked Xia Ping's path.
• Xia Ping told the crowd that the Lawless Gang had leaked his information to the Wind-Chasing Thieves after he sought their services.
• A Lawless Gang expert demanded witnesses and evidence, while another accused Xia Ping of being a rival gang's agent.
• Xia Ping declared his intention to wipe out the Lawless Gang and killed one of its experts with a fiery punch.
• Three or four Lawless Gang elites attacked Xia Ping, and he killed them with the sword auras of White Crane Slash.

Xia Ping attacked the Lawless Gang headquarters to avenge its betrayal, while Salida and the gang elders denied his accusations and branded him a demon spy. Xia Ping struck back with the Spear of Hell, killing several more elites and gravely injuring Salida.

• Xia Ping killed several Lawless Gang experts at the headquarters entrance and vowed to wipe out the gang.
• Salida and the Lawless Gang elites surrounded Xia Ping, and Salida raged over the fallen members.
• Xia Ping accused the gang of colluding with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and selling information about him, while the black-clothed man denied it.
• The Lawless Gang elders and Salida called Xia Ping a demon spy and urged the bystanders to help kill him.
• Xia Ping drew the Spear of Hell and killed four or five Martial Master Realm experts, including the black-clothed man, while gravely injuring Salida.

Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to defeat Salida and the Lawless Gang, but Sha Jie, Salida’s Grandmaster Realm older brother and West Desolate City’s deputy city lord, arrived and threatened him. Xia Ping rejected Sha Jie’s two choices and summoned his spacecraft, God of Light.

• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to overwhelm the Lawless Gang and prepared to kill Salida.
• Sha Jie arrived and revealed himself as Salida’s older brother and a Grandmaster Realm expert.
• Salida denied colluding with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and accused Xia Ping of being a demon traitor.
• Sha Jie accused Xia Ping of harming innocents and demanded that he cripple himself or die.
• Xia Ping chose to kill Sha Jie and summoned his personal spacecraft, God of Light.

Xia Ping used the God of Light’s Laser Cannon to cripple Sha Jie and then killed him, leaving the Lawless Gang without its powerful backer. He confronted Salida and challenged him to call for more help.

• Xia Ping revealed the God of Light hovering above the Lawless Gang’s headquarters and fired its Laser Cannon at Sha Jie.
• The blast shattered Sha Jie’s Body-Protecting Qi and left him alive but missing half his body.
• Xia Ping told Sha Jie that his position as deputy city lord did not put him above the law, then crushed his head and killed him.
• The bystanders and Lawless Gang members feared Xia Ping, while they lamented Sha Jie’s death and recognized that the gang had lost its backer.
• Xia Ping addressed Salida and dared the Lawless Gang leader to call for help and find someone who could save him.

Xia Ping killed Salida after the Lawless Gang leader admitted his hatred and despair. The gang members exposed their partnership with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and led Xia Ping to Salida’s vault, which he broke open before entering alone.

• Salida raged at Xia Ping for killing his big brother, Sha Jie, and Xia Ping killed him with a spear thrust.
• The Lawless Gang members begged for mercy and revealed that Salida’s gang had helped the Wind-Chasing Thieves fence stolen goods and sold Xia Ping’s information.
• A Lawless Gang elder told Xia Ping that the transaction ledgers and Salida’s fortune were in the treasury beneath Salida’s office.
• Xia Ping ordered the elders to lead him to the treasury and tore through its metal door with the Hell Spear.
• Xia Ping warned the Lawless Gang members to stay outside, then entered the vault alone.

Xia Ping looted the Lawless Gang’s treasury and found himself surrounded by West Desolate City’s police after killing the gang and deputy city lord Sha Jie. He contacted Zhao Yang, who promised to use Yanhuang University’s connections to protect him, just as armed officers and hostile Lawless Gang elders closed in.

• Xia Ping packed the Lawless Gang’s treasures into his Space Ring and left the treasury.
• Xia Ping sensed that the Lawless Gang elders had fled and that police and warships had surrounded the headquarters.
• Xia Ping contacted Zhao Yang and explained that he had wiped out the Lawless Gang and killed deputy city lord Sha Jie.
• Zhao Yang told Xia Ping to rely on the evidence of the gang’s dealings with the Wind-Chasing Thieves and promised to contact West Desolate City lord Guo Donghai.
• Armed police officers and several Grandmaster Realm experts surrounded Xia Ping as Lawless Gang elders arrived behind them.

Xia Ping faced arrest after killing Vice City Lord Sha Jie and the Lawless Gang leader, but City Lord Guo Donghai arrived and stopped Police Chief Yan Dongsheng from attacking him. Guo Donghai insisted Xia Ping be allowed to explain himself, leaving the confrontation poised for his account.

• Lawless Gang elders and Police Chief Yan Dongsheng accused Xia Ping of murder and demanded that he surrender, but Xia Ping asked to speak with the City Lord.
• Guo Donghai crashed through the building’s ceiling and asked Xia Ping why he had killed Sha Jie and the others.
• Yan Dongsheng urged Guo Donghai to arrest and execute Xia Ping, then attacked him with a palm strike.
• Guo Donghai blocked Yan Dongsheng’s strike and accused him of possibly using his authority to settle a personal score.
• Guo Donghai promised Xia Ping a fair hearing, and Xia Ping agreed to explain himself.

Xia Ping defended his attack on the Lawless Gang as part of his mission to protect West Desolate City, while City Lord Guo Donghai supported his actions. The chapter ended with Xia Ping presenting account books that implicated police chief Yan Dongsheng in corruption and ties to the gang.

• Xia Ping claimed he had infiltrated and destroyed the Wind-Chasing Thieves, then discovered evidence of their decade-long cooperation with the Lawless Gang.
• Xia Ping said he had attacked the Lawless Gang to stop its leaders from escaping and harming people elsewhere.
• Guo Donghai declared that Xia Ping had acted under an elite mission with police authority and could lawfully kill criminals.
• Yan Dongsheng challenged Xia Ping, citing his failure to involve the police and his killing of Deputy City Lord Sha Jie.
• Xia Ping accused Yan Dongsheng of taking bribes from the Lawless Gang and handed account books from its vault to Guo Donghai.
• Guo Donghai reviewed the account books and asked Yan Dongsheng to answer for his alleged collusion with the Lawless Gang.

Xia Ping exposed evidence of Yan Dongsheng’s crimes, prompting Guo Donghai to move against the police chief. Yan Dongsheng threatened to kill Guo, but Guo revealed his overwhelming strength and killed him.

• Yan Dongsheng called Xia Ping’s evidence a forgery, while Guo Donghai said the Federal Government would investigate it.
• Yan Dongsheng demanded that Guo surrender the ledger and threatened to kill him and frame his death as a heroic sacrifice.
• Guo Donghai unleashed his aura, revealing that he had reached the ninth level of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Guo Donghai struck Yan Dongsheng with a powerful palm, smashing him through the building and killing him on the ground floor.