Chapter Summaries

Elder Huang stopped Lu Boming from attacking Xia Ping and forbade further fighting on campus. Lu Boming left after threatening to face Xia Ping at the upcoming Genius Tournament, while Xia Ping escaped punishment.

• Elder Huang arrived and reprimanded Lu Boming for attacking Xia Ping on school grounds.
• Xia Ping urged Elder Huang to punish and expel Lu Boming, accusing him of attempted murder and insisting witnesses and cameras could prove it.
• Lu Boming lost his temper and prepared to attack Xia Ping, but Elder Huang ordered everyone to stop fighting and threatened expulsion for anyone who disobeyed.
• Lu Boming warned Xia Ping that they could settle matters at the upcoming Genius Tournament, then left.
• Elder Huang dismissed the Elite Students, and Xia Ping left without being punished.

Xia Ping’s windfall sparked resentment among Yanhuang University students, while the Pingtian Sect argued with his critics and faced accusations of bullying. Unaware of the uproar, Xia Ping cultivated in the Gravity Chamber, reaching a critical moment.

• Students discussed Xia Ping’s fight with Lu Boming and condemned him for making over ten million points from the Elite Students.
• Feng Hetang and the Pingtian Sect defended Xia Ping and mocked the students who had lost points.
• The Elite Students accused the Pingtian Sect of bullying others, claiming territory, and planning to collect protection money.
• Xia Ping cultivated in the Gravity Chamber, absorbing energy from Water Moon Grass and Energy Stones through his pores to refine true essence.

Xia Ping tempered his body in the Gravity Chamber, broke through to the sixth level of the Martial Master realm, and awakened the first signs of the Hell Golden Crow Eye in his left eye. The system warned that using the eye before his body was strong enough could make his body and soul collapse.

• Xia Ping endured the Gravity Chamber’s pressure as Pure Yang Medicinal Qi repaired and strengthened his body.
• Xia Ping broke through his sixty-first meridian and reached the sixth level of the Martial Master realm.
• Two or three Hell Golden Crow Cells awakened, improving Xia Ping’s strength and defenses.
• Xia Ping’s left eye briefly gained enhanced vision and the ability to see through walls, but using it caused severe pain and exhaustion.
• The system identified the ability as the Hell Golden Crow Eye and warned Xia Ping that overusing it could make his body and soul collapse.

Xia Ping learned that the Giant Corporation had sold his goods for 570 billion Federal Coins, and Liang Kuan introduced him to the possibility of buying a Super Warship. After three weeks of cultivation, Xia Ping prepared to take part in the Genius Tournament.

• Liang Kuan told Xia Ping that the goods had sold for 570 billion Federal Coins, and Xia Ping kept the source of the goods secret.
• Liang Kuan explained that a Super Warship could make space jumps and cost at least 50 trillion Federal Coins, prompting Xia Ping to consider earning the money by robbing wealthy Demon Kings.
• Liang Kuan asked Xia Ping about the upcoming Genius Tournament, and Xia Ping said he would do his best.
• Xia Ping cultivated to consolidate his strength and practice with his Hell Golden Crow Eye, and three weeks later the Genius Tournament began.

Xia Ping joined the Elite Students gathered for the Genius Tournament, where many underestimated his strength. Vice Principal Lu Shuwen arrived aboard a powerful battleship and transported the students inside to begin the tournament.

• Xia Ping received the notice to gather at the Training Tower plaza and headed there after strengthening his cultivation and Hell Golden Crow Bloodline.
• Elite Students discussed Xia Ping’s reputation and doubted he could compete with the tournament’s strongest contenders.
• Lu Shuwen arrived above the plaza aboard a battleship, and the students recognized him as an invincible King and a legendary figure.
• Lu Shuwen confirmed that the Elite Students had gathered and used the battleship’s energy to carry them all aboard.

Aboard the battleship, Xia Ping and the other contestants learned the Genius Tournament rules, its brutal survival preliminaries, and the rewards for qualifying. They also heard about several formidable contenders, including Xie Anshou, Feng Qiudao, and Bai Qingqing, as they headed for Sun Moon City.

• Xia Ping and the other contestants received an email explaining that the Genius Tournament would take place in Sun Moon City and consist of two rounds.
• A contestant read that one million entrants would compete in week-long survival preliminaries across ten zones, with only one thousand qualifying from each zone.
• An Elite Student explained that contestants would earn points by defeating opponents, while Sun Moon City's simulated battlefield and rescue technology would prevent deaths but not serious injuries.
• A student announced the school's rewards, which ranged from five hundred thousand points for qualifying to a hundred million points for first place.
• A contestant described how Xie Anshou became a powerful contender after bathing in Dragon Blood, while another praised Feng Qiudao's Undying Phoenix Blood and King-level cultivation art.
• A student argued that Bai Qingqing could rival Feng Qiudao, citing her awakened Qingluan blood, Seven Orifices Exquisite Body, and seven dantian qi seas.

As the warship carrying Xia Ping’s group headed for Sun Moon City, people across the Cloud Sky Realm prepared for the Genius Tournament, which promised a chance at glory, rewards, and recruitment. The Demon Race also planned to target promising human competitors, leaving the tournament’s rising stakes shadowed by threats of assassination.

• Xia Ping learned about powerful contenders such as Lu Chao, Lian Zhengshun, and Tu Haojie, while Elite Students aboard the warship doubted they could win.
• Teachers at God of War Academy, Black and White Academy, and Heavenly God University urged their students to claim first place.
• King Families promised rewards and advancement to young members who qualified for the Heavenly Demon Battlefield or ranked highly in the tournament.
• Martial arts organizations planned to monitor the competition and recruit standout competitors for their ranks.
• Demon Race assassins decided to put promising human geniuses on their kill list to weaken the Human Race.

Xia Ping arrived in Sun Moon City and was randomly transported into a simulated city as the Genius Tournament preliminaries began. He defeated an eighth-level Martial Master who attacked him, leaving the man disqualified and Xia Ping still in the competition.

• The contestants were transported without warning to ten simulated competition zones, and the Genius Tournament preliminaries began.
• Xia Ping appeared in an empty apartment stocked with weapons and surveyed the deserted city outside.
• A bald eighth-level Martial Master broke into Xia Ping’s apartment and attacked him with a saber.
• Xia Ping shattered the saber and defeated the bald man with one punch.
• The tournament system declared the bald man gravely injured and disqualified, then transported him out of the competition.

After defeating Baldy Wang, Xia Ping decided to seek out strong opponents rather than hide and wait for the competition’s final day. He provoked thirteen martial artists outside a residential building and left them and the livestream audience furious.

• Xia Ping’s defeat of Baldy Wang at the start of the preliminaries shocked spectators, who discussed how he had overcome a stronger opponent with one punch.
• Xia Ping checked his communicator and earned one point for eliminating Baldy Wang.
• Xia Ping rejected the idea of hiding to conserve his strength and planned to fight widely, hoping to break through to the Seventh Heaven of Martial Master Realm and reach the top ten.
• Xia Ping leaped into the garden and used his mental power to scan a one-kilometer area, drawing thirteen hostile martial artists out of the residential building.
• Xia Ping demanded that the martial artists bow and beg forgiveness, then mocked their schools, including Heavenly God University, God of War Academy, and Black and White Academy.
• The martial artists and livestream audience erupted in anger over Xia Ping’s insults.

Xia Ping provoked the other competitors by insulting their universities and a high-school graduate, then defeated the man in yellow with a single roar. When more than ten martial artists attacked him together, Xia Ping countered with the third stance of the Immovable Tathagata Palm.

• Xia Ping mocked the competitors from other universities and claimed that anyone who failed to enter Yanhuang University had no right to live.
• A man in yellow challenged Xia Ping, who insulted him for being a high-school graduate and called him an ignorant fool.
• The man in yellow attacked with his Thirty-Six Great Swift Blades, but Xia Ping defeated him with Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds and sent him out of the arena.
• After Xia Ping taunted the fallen man, someone called for the others to attack, and more than ten competitors charged him.
• Xia Ping unleashed the third stance of the Immovable Tathagata Palm as golden light and a Buddha phantom appeared behind him.

Xia Ping defeated eleven opponents with one palm strike and spared the sole survivor on the condition that he spread word of Xia Ping's challenge. Spectators across the Cloud Sky Realm erupted in anger over Xia Ping's insults toward rival schools and other people.

• Xia Ping killed eleven experts with a palm strike and left the man in blue alive because his Great Kashyapa Qi Shield had protected him.
• Xia Ping ordered the man in blue to spread the claim that Yanhuang University was invincible and invite challengers to the roof of a nearby skyscraper.
• The man in blue agreed, then fled after Xia Ping told him to summon students from other schools.
• Xia Ping headed toward a nearby building while spectators in the Cloud Sky Realm reacted to what they had witnessed.
• Students and spectators from rival schools and other backgrounds condemned Xia Ping's insults and called for him to be punished.

Online backlash against Xia Ping spread to Yanhuang University, and the Pingtian Sect joined the argument to defend him. The insults escalated into a huge online feud, leaving Yanhuang University’s reputation under attack.

• People online blamed Yanhuang University students for Xia Ping’s behavior and rejected students’ attempts to distance themselves from him.
• Feng Hetang and other Pingtian Sect members insulted the critics and defended Xia Ping.
• Angry users threatened the Yanhuang University students, and both sides flooded forums with insults and personal attacks.
• Other Yanhuang University students were attacked online and could not persuade people that they had nothing to do with Xia Ping’s group.
• Su Ji and the other women watched as Xia Ping’s conduct prompted people to question Yanhuang University’s education and reputation.

Xia Ping confronted the Lin Brothers on the rooftop after they demanded that he apologize to God of War Academy. He eliminated Lin Hu with one punch, then shattered Lin Shi and Lin Bao’s saber attack with his palm strike.

• The Lin Brothers arrived and challenged Xia Ping, demanding that he kneel and declare Yanhuang University inferior to God of War Academy.
• Xia Ping attacked Lin Hu with a punch and sent him out of the arena, eliminating him.
• Lin Shi and Lin Bao drew their sabers and unleashed the Lin Family Thirteen Life-Taking Sabers at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used No-Beat Palm to smash their saber lights and strike Lin Shi and Lin Bao with the force of his palm.

Xia Ping defeated Lin Bao and Lin Shi, then broke through to the threshold of the seventh Martial Master level. Li Hu the Heavy Hammer challenged him and struck with his Mountain-Splitting Hammer, but Xia Ping blocked the blow unharmed.

• Xia Ping shattered Lin Bao and Lin Shi's weapons and blasted them into a building, eliminating both brothers from the competition.
• The livestream audience and God of War Academy students were shocked that Xia Ping had overwhelmed the Lin Brothers despite appearing to be a sixth-level Martial Master.
• Xia Ping refined more of the medicine in his body and forced open a seventh meridian, leaving five more to open before he could reach the seventh Martial Master level.
• Li Hu the Heavy Hammer leaped from a nearby building and attacked Xia Ping with his Mountain-Splitting Hammer, claiming Xia Ping's points for himself.
• Xia Ping met Li Hu's hammer with the fourth form of the Immoveable Tathagata Palm and blocked the blow without injury, astonishing Li Hu.

Xia Ping overpowered Li Hu in a contest of strength, but an assassin from the Huang Family intervened with a flying dagger and forced Xia Ping to abandon his attack. Li Hu celebrated the unexpected rescue and believed the Huang Family’s involvement had put Xia Ping at a disadvantage.

• A Heavenly God University student and livestream viewers were stunned when Xia Ping blocked Li Hu’s hammer barehanded.
• Li Hu unleashed the Mountain-Settling Hammer, but Xia Ping answered with the Giant Elephant Axe and cracked Li Hu’s hammer while overpowering him.
• As Li Hu ran out of strength, Xia Ping followed his strike with a left fist aimed at Li Hu’s chest.
• A concealed dagger flew toward Xia Ping from several kilometers away, and Xia Ping escaped using Kunpeng Step, allowing the dagger to pierce thirteen buildings.
• Livestream viewers identified the weapon as a Huang Family Flying Dagger and warned that the assassin clan had targeted Xia Ping.
• Li Hu laughed and claimed that the Huang Family’s backing made Xia Ping as good as dead.

Xia Ping fought Li Hu and a Huang Family disciple who attacked from hiding, then used the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art to strike the distant assassin. The sphere of compressed air and true essence destroyed the building and blasted the Huang Family disciple away.

• Li Hu attacked Xia Ping with his giant hammer while a hidden Huang Family disciple fired throwing knives at him.
• Xia Ping dodged the knives and blocked one with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, but the combined attacks left him injured and under pressure.
• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to locate the Huang Family disciple hiding three kilometers away.
• Xia Ping compressed air and true essence into a sphere and hurled it at the assassin’s building.
• The sphere exploded, collapsing the building and flinging the Huang Family disciple away with a scream.

Xia Ping attacked the Huang Family disciple from afar and struck Li Hu when he tried to interfere. The Huang Family disciple fled but was impaled by Xia Ping’s Hell Spear and eliminated from the competition.

• Xia Ping formed a Hell Spear and prepared to kill the injured Huang Family disciple.
• Li Hu charged at Xia Ping to stop him, but Xia Ping struck Li Hu with No-Beat Palm and hurled him through several walls.
• The Huang Family disciple used the Huang Family Cloud-Scaling Ladder to flee from Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping hurled the Hell Spear after the fleeing disciple, piercing his abdomen and pinning him to a building wall.
• The Huang Family disciple disappeared from the competition grounds and was eliminated.

Xia Ping pursued Li Hu and eliminated him after defeating the Huang Family disciple, leaving viewers stunned by his strength. As the Pingtian Sect mocked the outraged audience, some viewers vowed to castrate themselves if Xia Ping won the Genius Tournament.

• Xia Ping leaped from a skyscraper and used his wings to pursue the fleeing Li Hu.
• Xia Ping struck the injured Li Hu with a powerful punch, eliminating him from the competition.
• Viewers marveled that Xia Ping had defeated Li Hu and the Huang Family disciple despite being at the sixth level of the Martial Master realm.
• Feng Hetang and the Pingtian Sect members taunted viewers who refused to accept Xia Ping's victory.
• Angry viewers insisted stronger prodigies would defeat Xia Ping, and some vowed to castrate themselves if he won the tournament.

Xia Ping demolished skyscrapers to drive hidden contestants out and provoke them into fighting him. After he insulted the angry martial artists, dozens charged at him, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Xia Ping noticed the contestants were avoiding him, so he decided to force them out of their hiding places.
• Xia Ping hurled fireballs at skyscrapers, bringing down buildings and scattering contestants into the streets.
• The displaced martial artists spotted Xia Ping destroying their hideouts and confronted him.
• Xia Ping admitted what he was doing and taunted the martial artists, daring them to retaliate.
• Dozens of furious contestants charged at Xia Ping with killing intent.

Xia Ping fought off a mob of contestants in the preliminaries, using his qi arts to repel their attacks and overwhelm them with flames. After eliminating hundreds of opponents, he stood alone amid the destruction and declared himself invincible.

• Dozens of contestants attacked Xia Ping at once, but he used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to redirect their qi attacks back at them.
• Xia Ping unleashed the Pure Yang Indestructible Art, surrounding himself with flames that formed a Fire Divine Bird and terrified the contestants.
• Xia Ping sent flaming birds and punches into the crowd, burning and injuring contestants until they were eliminated and transported away.
• Over half an hour, Xia Ping eliminated hundreds of contestants and left the area flattened, with no one else standing.
• Xia Ping looked up at the sky and sighed that he was already invincible in this world.