Chapter Summaries

Guo Donghai killed Yan Dongsheng and secured the crowd’s submission, then cleared Xia Ping of all charges and awarded him the title of City Hero. When police searched the Lawless Gang’s vault, they found it empty, and Xia Ping denied taking anything.

• Guo Donghai declared Yan Dongsheng guilty of attempting to assassinate the city lord, and the crowd accepted the verdict in fear.
• Xia Ping recognized the power of the Grandmaster Realm as Guo Donghai asserted control over West Desolate City.
• Guo Donghai praised Xia Ping for destroying the Wind-Chasing Thieves and exposing Yan Dongsheng and Sha Jie, then proposed clearing him and granting him the City Hero award.
• Xia Ping modestly claimed his actions were his duty but said he would reluctantly accept an award for his achievements.
• Police searched the Lawless Gang’s vault and found it empty, while Xia Ping denied taking its treasure and blamed Salida for possibly moving it.
• Guo Donghai ordered the police to investigate and find the Lawless Gang’s hidden vault.

Xia Ping cultivated in seclusion after defeating the Wind-Chasing Thieves and the Lawless Gang, consuming thirteen Snow Lotus Pills and advancing to the third heaven of the Martial Master Realm. After three days, he checked his new strength and Hate Points before City Lord Guo Donghai contacted him.

• Xia Ping swallowed all thirteen Snow Lotus Pills and used their energy to cultivate in the manor’s secluded chamber.
• Xia Ping opened twenty-four meridians and reached the peak of the second heaven of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xia Ping’s two true-essence vortexes resonated, helping him open a twenty-fifth meridian and reach the third heaven of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xia Ping tested his improved strength and punched through a titanium-alloy wall from a hundred meters away.
• Xia Ping discovered that three days had passed and learned from the system that he had accumulated 6.2 million Hate Points.
• City Lord Guo Donghai contacted Xia Ping through his Smart Watch.

After reaching the third level of the Martial Master Realm, Xia Ping met with Guo Donghai, who asked him to investigate strange changes at the Demon Spirit Mine. Xia Ping accepted in exchange for a Blood Flood Dragon Pill and prepared to enter the dangerous forbidden zone.

• Guo Donghai noticed that Xia Ping had grown stronger during his three days of seclusion and summoned him to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Guo Donghai explained that an ancient battle had made the Demon Spirit Mine a forbidden zone filled with spatial folds, resentment, and demons.
• Guo Donghai told Xia Ping that the mine's demons and demonic energy had vanished three months earlier, while disturbing roars and powerful demon activity had been reported there.
• Guo Donghai asked Xia Ping to investigate the mine, explaining that Grandmasters could be corrupted there and that Xia Ping was the strongest suitable Martial Master available.
• Xia Ping accepted the mission after Guo Donghai offered him a Blood Flood Dragon Pill as a reward.

Xia Ping crossed the Western Desolation using the Kunpeng Step and broke through his twenty-sixth meridian during his extreme training. He reached the Demon Spirit Mine, sensed the danger of its formation, and was confronted by members of the demon race.

• Xia Ping raced across the desert with the Kunpeng Step, reflecting on the power of the Martial Master, Grandmaster, and King realms.
• As he pushed his body through hours of running, Xia Ping drew in spiritual energy and opened his twenty-sixth meridian.
• Xia Ping reached the vast, abandoned Demon Spirit Mine and sensed its sinister demonic aura and a formation that suppressed anyone above the Martial Master Realm.
• Dozens of monsters with human torsos and animal heads appeared at the mine’s edge and ordered Xia Ping to stop.

Xia Ping confronted the demons guarding the Demon Spirit Mine and tried to buy information from them, but they refused and threatened to make him a servant or kill him. He attacked with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and burned several demons to ash.

• The tiger demon and the other Martial Master demons demanded to know why Xia Ping had entered the Demon Spirit Mine.
• Xia Ping said the West Desolate City Lord had sent him to investigate unusual activity and offered a reward for information.
• Xia Ping offered the demons Wood Spirit Pills and a chance to move to a human city, but they rejected his offer and invoked Lord Poison Scorpion’s order to kill suspicious intruders.
• The tiger demon gave Xia Ping the choice of becoming his servant or dying.
• Xia Ping unleashed the Pure Yang Indestructible Art, engulfing the demons in dark-red flames that burned five or six of them to ash.

Xia Ping defeated the Tiger Demon with a single palm and killed him with a punch, demonstrating how far his strength surpassed the demons'. The remaining demons were left stunned and afraid.

• The demons feared Xia Ping after he killed more than a dozen of them with a single fire technique.
• The Tiger Demon transformed and challenged Xia Ping with the Tiger Demon Clan’s Tiger Roar Fist.
• Xia Ping blocked the Tiger Demon’s punch with his Immovable Tathagata Palm and sent him flying, badly injured.
• Xia Ping rebuked the Tiger Demon for claiming humans merely copied demon martial arts.
• The Tiger Demon roared in anger, and Xia Ping killed him with a punch before the other demons could intervene.

After Xia Ping killed the Tiger Demon, he wiped out the attacking demons with the third form of the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art and absorbed their Demon Cores. When powerful demons arrived to investigate, Xia Ping fled deeper into the Demon Spirit Mine, and they vowed to hunt him down.

• The demons attacked Xia Ping to avenge the Tiger Demon, and Xia Ping unleashed Flower Rain Across the Sky, burning them all to ashes.
• Xia Ping collected several dozen Demon Cores, purified their demonic energy with the Sun Furnace, and gained a large amount of true essence.
• Xia Ping sensed powerful demons approaching and used the Kunpeng Step to flee deeper into the Demon Spirit Mine.
• More than a dozen demons found the ashes, suspected Xia Ping was a spy from West Desolate City, and set out to hunt him.

Xia Ping explored the dangerous Demon Spirit Mine and concealed his aura as he made his way to its center. There, he discovered monsters assembling the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array under Scorpion Thirteen’s orders, while they searched for him.

• Xia Ping entered the Demon Spirit Mine, saw its wormholes and a mountain steeped in black blood, and concealed his aura within his Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Xia Ping traveled cautiously through the mine for a day and a night, avoiding dangerous mountains and their powerful monsters.
• Xia Ping reached the central area and found hundreds of monsters gathered around carved stone totems arranged in a formation.
• Several ninth-level Martial Master monsters arrived and complained that they could not find Xia Ping, whom they feared might disrupt the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array.
• Xia Ping hid beneath a black rock, heard the monsters mention Young Master Scorpion Thirteen, and realized he was nearing the truth.

Xia Ping overheard Scorpion Thirteen and his demons preparing to activate the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array so Scorpion Thirteen could absorb ancient demonic power and strengthen himself. The chapter left the demons ready to unleash the array despite knowing it would destroy the mine’s defenses and devastate nearby human cities.

• Scorpion Thirteen arrived and learned that the demons had completed the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array, which they planned to activate at midnight.
• Xia Ping recognized Scorpion Thirteen as the son of Black Scorpion King and learned that the array was intended to raise him to the peak of the Demon Soldier Realm.
• A demon warned that the array’s demonic and baleful energy could overwhelm Scorpion Thirteen’s soul, but Scorpion Thirteen revealed that he had borrowed the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl from his father.
• Scorpion Thirteen’s followers praised his favor with Black Scorpion King and pledged loyalty to him.
• A demon warned that activating the array would destroy the mine’s protective formation and release the demons sealed inside, threatening nearby human cities.
• Scorpion Thirteen dismissed the danger to humans, and the demons agreed that tens of millions could die as a consequence of his ambitions.

Xia Ping learned how to break the demons’ Heavenly Demon Infusion Array and planned to destroy it before it could endanger West Desolate City. As the demons began activating the array at midnight, he prepared to strike its key node.

• Scorpion Thirteen dismissed the threat Xia Ping posed and ordered the demons to finish the array and activate it that night.
• Xia Ping decided to kill Scorpion Thirteen and his demons, both to complete his mission and to earn Hate Points by provoking the Black Scorpion King.
• Xia Ping spent two million Hate Points to learn how the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array worked and discovered that destroying a key node at midnight would collapse it.
• The system warned Xia Ping that the array’s gathered energy would erupt with force comparable to a nuclear bomb, and Xia Ping planned to hide in his Space Ring.
• At midnight, the demons gathered at the Demon Spirit Mine’s center and began activating the completed array as Xia Ping opened his eyes behind a nearby rock.

Scorpion Thirteen activated the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array to refine his Demon King bloodline when Xia Ping emerged and attacked its core. The array began to collapse, and Xia Ping escaped into his Space Ring as destructive energy gathered.

• Scorpion Thirteen activated the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array, drawing energy from the Demon Spirit Mine as the demons celebrated his expected rise.
• Xia Ping burst from a boulder and surprised the demons while the array was at its most vulnerable.
• Scorpion Thirteen ordered the demons to kill Xia Ping before he could damage the array.
• Xia Ping hurled a stone through several demons and destroyed the array’s core scorpion-shaped totem.
• As the gathered energy threatened to explode, Xia Ping dove into his Space Ring and left it buried in the dirt.

Xia Ping survived the Heavenly Demon Infusion Array’s catastrophic explosion by hiding in his Space Ring, then emerged to find Scorpion Thirteen and a handful of badly wounded monsters alive. He attacked them immediately, killing three of Scorpion Thirteen’s subordinates as the fight began.

• Xia Ping hid inside his Space Ring as the array collapsed and unleashed an explosion that destroyed the surrounding area and killed most of the monsters.
• After the blast subsided, Xia Ping emerged and saw that the nearby mountains had been flattened and the ground was covered in lava.
• Scorpion Thirteen and more than a dozen wounded subordinates survived the explosion, and Scorpion Thirteen attacked Xia Ping with a venomous gust of black wind.
• Xia Ping dodged Scorpion Thirteen’s attack, drew the Spear of Hell, and charged at the wounded monsters.
• Xia Ping’s spear pierced three monsters and then burst their bodies apart, killing them.

Xia Ping fought Scorpion Thirteen, whose Black Scorpion Poison failed against Xia Ping’s flames. After Xia Ping severely wounded him, nearby demons intervened to protect the son of the Black Scorpion King, and the battle continued.

• Scorpion Thirteen attacked Xia Ping with his Black Scorpion Poison and a powerful punch.
• Xia Ping used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art to burn away the poison, then struck Scorpion Thirteen with Rending Bear Hand and smashed him into the ground.
• Xia Ping prepared to finish Scorpion Thirteen, but more than a dozen demons warned him of the consequences and rushed in to shield Scorpion Thirteen.
• The demons attacked Xia Ping, and their blows blasted the ground and shattered rocks around them.

Xia Ping used the Golden Light Mirror to destroy the monsters’ battle formation and kill them before they could escape. He realized the treasure’s power surpassed what he expected, but resolved to hide it from the Nie Family until he reached the King Realm.

• The injured monsters formed the Black Scorpion Battle Formation and attacked Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping activated the Golden Light Mirror, piercing and burning away the formation with a golden beam.
• The formation shattered, and the monsters were badly injured by the backlash; Scorpion Thirteen and the others recognized Xia Ping had another treasure and considered fleeing.
• Xia Ping fired golden beams at the monsters, killing them all to prevent them from revealing that he possessed the mirror.
• Xia Ping assessed the mirror’s power and resolved to reach the King Realm so he could use it without fearing the Nie Family’s revenge.

Scorpion Thirteen summoned a Grandmaster-level Energy Puppet with a Demon King Talisman and tried to kill Xia Ping, but Xia Ping countered by pulling out micro nuclear bombs. The chapter ended with Scorpion Thirteen fleeing and pleading with Xia Ping not to detonate them.

• Scorpion Thirteen used its Demon King Talisman to summon a powerful black Scorpion Demon Energy Puppet.
• Scorpion Thirteen ordered the puppet to kill Xia Ping and tried to claim the Golden Light Mirror and Spear of Hell.
• Xia Ping revealed several micro nuclear bombs that Guo Donghai had given him for emergencies.
• Scorpion Thirteen panicked and begged Xia Ping not to detonate the bombs, warning that they would both die in the blast.

Xia Ping survived Scorpion Thirteen’s attacks and killed him after the demon escaped the blast of three miniature nuclear bombs. Scorpion Thirteen died still raging about his lost ambitions and threatening revenge.

• Xia Ping threw three miniature nuclear bombs at Scorpion Thirteen, whose Energy Puppet shielded him from most of the blast but was destroyed along with the Demon King Talisman.
• Xia Ping emerged from the Space Ring and pursued Scorpion Thirteen, who threatened him with the Black Scorpion King’s vengeance.
• Scorpion Thirteen released a cloud of deadly poison and fled, but Xia Ping burned away the poison with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art.
• Xia Ping hurled the Hell Spear through Scorpion Thirteen’s chest, piercing his heart and killing him.

Xia Ping took the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl and refined Demon Spirit Stones to strengthen his cultivation. After reaching a new stage of progress, he decided to publicize Scorpion Thirteen and the other monsters’ deaths online to gain more Hate Points.

• Xia Ping confirmed Scorpion Thirteen was dead and took the Soul-Stabilizing Pearl, whose golden light protected and nourished him.
• Xia Ping found dozens of Demon Spirit Stones in a pit and used his Sun Furnace to refine them into energy he could absorb.
• Xia Ping absorbed the stones’ energy overnight, opened six meridians, and strengthened his true essence and mental power.
• Xia Ping considered the monster corpses and decided to post news of the killings online so more people would learn of his achievements.

After emerging from the Demon Spirit Mine, Xia Ping posted about killing more than a dozen monsters, and his supporters praised him while his rivals accused him of lying. Clear photos proved his account, but Mu Haoran dismissed the monsters as weak cannon fodder.

• Xia Ping reached the surface, connected to the internet, and posted that he had killed several monsters in the Demon Spirit Mine.
• Feng Hetang and the Pingtian Sect members praised Xia Ping on the School Forum, and Xia Ping modestly boasted that he had killed more than a dozen Martial Master Realm monsters unharmed.
• Mu Haoran, Ju Zijian, and their allies called Xia Ping's story unbelievable and mocked him for supposedly inventing it to attract attention.
• Xia Ping uploaded clear photos of the dead monsters and himself beside them, giving Feng Hetang and the others proof to mock his critics.
• Mu Haoran conceded that the photos were real but claimed the monsters Xia Ping killed were weak cannon fodder.

Xia Ping defended his forum post by revealing that the demon he killed was Scorpion Thirteen, the Black Scorpion King's son, but students accused him of lying. After students investigated and found the demon in his picture matched Scorpion Thirteen, the university was left reeling at the possible death of a Demon King’s crown prince.

• Ju Zijian and other students mocked Xia Ping for bragging about killing weak demon grunts, so Xia Ping replied that the largest dead demon was Scorpion Thirteen, the Black Scorpion King's son.
• Mu Haoran and the other students accused Xia Ping of making up the claim, and Xia Ping told them to investigate for themselves.
• A student used family connections to confirm that the Black Scorpion King had a beloved son named Scorpion Thirteen, considered a possible successor.
• The student compared a picture of Scorpion Thirteen with the dead demon and said they looked exactly alike, though Mu Haoran and others still resisted admitting Xia Ping had killed him.
• Yanhuang University students realized Scorpion Thirteen might be dead and feared the news could spark a major conflict between humans and demons.

After news spread that Xia Ping had killed Scorpion Thirteen, people feared the Black Scorpion King's retaliation and called for Xia Ping to be handed over. Xia Ping used an online post to reveal Scorpion Thirteen's plot against the Demon Spirit Mine, turning public opinion in his favor as the story became major news.

• News that Xia Ping had killed Scorpion Thirteen spread across the Cloud Sky Realm, and people debated the risk of war with the demons.
• Xia Ping posted a rebuttal accusing those who wanted to surrender him of being demon spies and traitors.
• Xia Ping claimed Scorpion Thirteen and other monsters had planned to use a Heavenly Demon Infusion Array to break the Demon Spirit Mine's formations and endanger more than a dozen human cities.
• People who believed Xia Ping's account condemned Scorpion Thirteen and rejected the idea of handing Xia Ping over to the demons.
• Xia Ping joined the calls for resistance using an alternate account, and the story reached major media outlets and made him famous.