Chapter Summaries

News that Qiu Xue and Su Mei had become kings spread across the human world, and people celebrated their power and beauty while gossiping about their relationship with Xia Ping. Unaware of the online frenzy, Xia Ping cultivated in seclusion with the Earth Heart Ganoderma, aiming to reach the Grandmaster Fourth Heaven Realm.

• News of Qiu Xue and Su Mei becoming kings spread worldwide, and people celebrated the new strength they brought humanity.
• People admired the two women's beauty and gossiped that both were involved with Xia Ping, arguing over his reputation and success.
• Xia Ping remained unaware of the public gossip and cultivated in his villa's Training Room.
• Xia Ping swallowed the Earth Heart Ganoderma, whose medicinal power surged through his body and strengthened his astral energy.
• Xia Ping tried to use the opportunity to break through to the Grandmaster Fourth Heaven Realm.

Xia Ping refined the Earth Heart Ganoderma and broke through to the Grandmaster Fourth Heaven Realm, gaining stronger astral energy, Earth Heart Earth Fire, and expanded mental power. After spending another day mastering his new strength, he received 250 million Hate Points for angering Demon Kings from Ten Thousand Demon Mountain and the Huo Family.

• Xia Ping absorbed the Earth Heart Ganoderma's medicinal power and broke through to the Grandmaster Fourth Heaven Realm.
• Xia Ping tested his increased astral energy by shaping it into weapons and cutting apart wooden posts.
• Xia Ping absorbed the Earth Heart Earth Fire and formed it into a destructive flaming divine sword.
• Xia Ping's mental power expanded to a range of thirty kilometers as the Soul Crystal released some of its energy.
• Xia Ping spent another day in the Training Room mastering his new power.
• The system told Xia Ping he had gained 250 million Hate Points from Demon Kings from Ten Thousand Demon Mountain and the Huo Family.

Xia Ping spent his newly gained Hate Points and the proceeds from selling demon treasures on energy for the Moon Goddess, while concluding that Ten Thousand Demon Mountain was too weakened to risk war. As he left the Training Room to bathe, he ran into Su Ji.

• Xia Ping checked the news and learned that Su Mei and Qiu Xue had reached the King Realm and killed the Diamond Ant King and the Purple Butterfly King.
• Xia Ping reasoned that Ten Thousand Demon Mountain would avoid war after losing seven Demon Kings while humanity gained two new Kings.
• Xia Ping discovered that Giant Corporation had sold the demon treasures for twenty-five trillion Federal Coins.
• Xia Ping ordered energy for the Moon Goddess, spending most of his money to prepare the Super Warship for use.
• Xia Ping left the Training Room for the hot spring bathroom and encountered Su Ji stepping out in a bathrobe.

After leaving seclusion, Xia Ping encountered Su Ji fresh from the hot spring, and their awkward collision left her sprawled on top of him with her bathrobe open. Jiang Yaru arrived and caught them in that compromising position.

• Su Ji enjoyed the medicinal hot spring and reflected on how quickly it had helped her cultivation reach the sixth level of the Martial Master realm.
• Su Ji walked into Xia Ping after he emerged from the Training Room, and he complimented her appearance.
• Su Ji realized Xia Ping had seen her wearing only a bathrobe and hurried toward her room in embarrassment.
• Su Ji slipped in a puddle, and Xia Ping's instinctive dodge sent them crashing to the floor with Su Ji on top of him.
• Jiang Yaru arrived and stared at Xia Ping and Su Ji in surprise.

Su Ji accidentally fell on Xia Ping, but Jiang Yaru mistook the scene for a seduction attempt and left Su Ji flustered and embarrassed. By the time Su Ji left the bedroom, the maids had spread the story as proof of her clever tactics and crowded around her for advice.

• Su Ji fell on Xia Ping, and Jiang Yaru arrived and accused her of trying to seduce him.
• Xia Ping defended Su Ji by calling the fall an accident, then carried her to the bedroom when she said she could not get up.
• Jiang Yaru left for the hot spring bath, and the villa maids began gossiping that Su Ji had nearly succeeded in winning Xia Ping over.
• Su Ji came out fully dressed, heard the maids praising her supposed seduction skills, and could not respond as they asked her for tips.

The Giant Corporation announced that it would open a ruin so its Grandmasters could grow stronger in response to Ten Thousand Demon Mountain opening the Demon King Path. Xia Ping received the news at his villa and decided to join the expedition.

• At a meeting, the Giant Corporation Kings learned that Ten Thousand Demon Mountain planned to open the Demon King Path after losing seven Demon Kings.
• The old man in white announced that the Federal Government had asked the Giant Corporation, Life Corporation, and Aurora Corporation to open ruins for their Grandmasters.
• The Giant Corporation ordered its Grandmasters to gather, and Grandmasters across the region abandoned their activities to return for the chance to explore the ruin.
• Xia Ping received the notification at his villa and resolved to enter the ruin.

Xia Ping escaped an apparent car crash and discovered that it was an ambush by the Shadow Demons. He killed the first assassin and three more attackers, leaving the Shadow Demons’ assault on Giant Island decisively repelled.

• Xia Ping leapt from his anti-gravity car when another car hurtled toward it, then used Kunpeng Step to escape the explosion and ensuing chain collision.
• Xia Ping sensed a hidden attacker in the smoke and blocked a lethal dagger strike with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.
• Xia Ping recognized the attacker as a Shadow Demon and crushed it with a palm strike.
• Three Grandmaster-level Shadow Demons attacked Xia Ping to avenge their companion, but he trapped them in his qi vortex and smashed them apart with a punch.

After Xia Ping killed four Grandmaster-level Shadow Demons who ambushed him, he continued to Giant Corporation headquarters for a gathering of Grandmasters. There, the attendees scrutinized his youth and privilege until a tall figure confronted him by name.

• Xia Ping killed four Grandmaster-level Shadow Demons who attacked him after staging a car accident.
• Xia Ping told the police what had happened, then left them to handle the incident and continued to Giant Corporation headquarters.
• A staff member escorted Xia Ping to No. 8 Plaza, where at least a thousand Grandmasters had gathered.
• The Grandmasters discussed Xia Ping’s rapid rise, central-district villa, and potential to become an Invincible King.
• A tall figure appeared before Xia Ping and called out to him in a cold voice.

Xia Ping confronted Wang Dongcheng, who demanded a lie detector test over the disappearance of Wang Rulong, Wang Tong, and the Wang Family grandmasters on Treasure Island. Xia Ping insisted that Wang Dongcheng stake his life on the test, leaving the furious man unable to press the demand without risking himself.

• Wang Dongcheng identified himself as Wang Rulong's older brother and asked Xia Ping what had happened to the Wang Family members who went to Treasure Island.
• Xia Ping said they might be dead and suggested they could have been killed by the Five Great Demon Kings.
• Wang Dongcheng accused Xia Ping of murdering them and demanded that he take a lie detector test.
• Xia Ping challenged Wang Dongcheng to kill himself if the test proved Xia Ping had told the truth.
• Wang Dongcheng was shocked and furious but could not accept Xia Ping's terms.

Xia Ping overpowered Wang Dongcheng and tried to force him to sign a Life and Death Contract over the accusation that he had killed Wang Rulong and the others. King Zhao Zhong arrived before the confrontation was resolved.

• Xia Ping challenged Wang Dongcheng to stake his life on a lie detector test and reached out to seize him.
• Wang Dongcheng activated the Wang Family's Azure Dragon Art, but Xia Ping shattered his Body-Protecting Qi with one claw and injured him.
• Xia Ping demanded that Wang Dongcheng sign a Life and Death Contract, threatening to kill him if the test proved he had told the truth.
• Wang Dongcheng refused to sign and trembled in fear, beginning to suspect Xia Ping had not directly killed Wang Rulong.
• King Zhao Zhong arrived, and Xia Ping sensed that the old man's cultivation surpassed that of the kings he had met before.

Zhao Zhong punished Wang Dongcheng for accusing Xia Ping and announced that Giant Corporation would open Ruin 88, a deadly trial ruin. The Grandmasters chose to enter, and Zhao Zhong’s spaceship carried them to the ruin.

• Wang Dongcheng tried to have Xia Ping arrested, but Zhao Zhong rebuked him and expelled him from the expedition.
• Wang Dongcheng insulted Zhao Zhong and invoked his family ties, so Zhao Zhong knocked him unconscious and ordered guards to remove him.
• Zhao Zhong explained that Ruin 88 tested entrants, offered great rewards to those who passed, and killed those who failed.
• The Grandmasters accepted the trial’s high death rate and chose not to withdraw.
• Zhao Zhong sent the Grandmasters, including Xia Ping, aboard a spaceship that jumped through space to Ruin 88.

Xia Ping and the other Grandmasters arrived at Ruin 88, where Ling Guoliang warned them that the trial was deadly and opened the entrance. Xia Ping entered first and was transported alone to the Trial Space, where his physical assessment began.

• Xia Ping and the Grandmasters landed at Ruin 88 and followed Ling Guoliang into its heavily guarded base.
• Ling Guoliang warned them that the trial’s death rate exceeded fifty percent and that weaker participants faced an even higher risk, but none withdrew.
• Ling Guoliang opened the passage into the ruins, and Xia Ping entered first before the other Grandmasters followed.
• The entrance sealed after all the Grandmasters entered, and each was transported to a separate space.
• A pillar of light struck Xia Ping in the Trial Space, and a voice announced the start of his physical assessment.

Xia Ping qualified for the highest-level trial in the ruins and battled waves of liquid robots. After discovering that their silver cores were vulnerable to his Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, he destroyed the first eighteen, but another eighteen appeared with spears.

• The system assessed Xia Ping as a nineteen-year-old Grandmaster Fourth Heaven Realm human with SSS-ranked attributes and an immeasurable bloodline, then began the highest-level trial.
• Eighteen sword-wielding liquid robots attacked Xia Ping, but his palms and Northern Underworld Body Protection Art failed to destroy them.
• Xia Ping used Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds to shatter the robots' silver cores and turn them into pools of black liquid.
• Another eighteen liquid robots appeared, this time armed with spears, and charged at Xia Ping.

Xia Ping defeated wave after wave of weapon-wielding robots to pass the first round of the Death Trial, then was transported to a chamber of mysterious diagrams as the second round began. The trial’s mechanical voice announced that he might earn the Star Sect’s legacy if he survived.

• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell to destroy eighteen silver spear-wielding Liquid Robots and then faced successive waves of robots with different weapons.
• Xia Ping endured the attacks with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, eventually smashing the final robot.
• The mechanical voice announced that Xia Ping had passed the first round and granted him half an hour to rest before the second round.
• After the rest period, the trial transported Xia Ping to a crystal-walled chamber covered in mysterious diagrams and characters.
• Xia Ping’s mind was drawn toward a martial world where a glowing figure demonstrated a peerless art, before the mechanical voice announced the second round’s start.

Xia Ping learned that the Star-Drawing Technique was the trial required to escape Ruin 88 and used the Super Hatred System to master the Saint-level art. He immediately began drawing down the power of the stars, astonishing the ruin’s mechanical voice.

• The mechanical voice told Xia Ping he had to learn the Star-Drawing Technique within a year or fail the trial and die.
• Xia Ping asked the Super Hatred System to scan the technique and learned it was a top-grade Saint-level art that cost two hundred million Hate Points.
• Xia Ping spent the Hate Points, received the technique’s knowledge, and saw a vision of a powerful figure drawing on the stars.
• Xia Ping began practicing immediately, opening his 108,000 pores and drawing streams of azure starlight into his body.
• The mechanical voice watched in astonishment as Xia Ping glowed like a gigantic planet while absorbing the power of the stars.

Xia Ping mastered the Star-Drawing Technique and passed the second round of the Death Trial. He followed a dark tunnel to a mysterious palace, where a figure suddenly appeared before him.

• Xia Ping cultivated the Star-Drawing Technique, drawing in star power that opened two acupoints and strengthened his body.
• Xia Ping cultivated for three days and nights without hunger, then asked the watching voice whether he had passed the trial.
• The voice declared that Xia Ping had passed the second round of the Death Trial and opened a passage to his reward.
• Xia Ping used the Kunpeng Step to cross the tunnel and reach a vast palace beneath a starry sky.
• A figure formed from descending beams of light and appeared in front of Xia Ping.

Xia Ping met Cat Immortal, the Smart Brain of the base, and learned about the Cloud Sky Realm’s place in the vast universe and how Yanhuang Planet became connected to it. After boasting of the Star Sect’s Planet-Annihilating Cannon, Cat Immortal admitted it had been destroyed, leading Xia Ping to suspect the sect had fallen.

• Cat Immortal introduced itself as the base’s Smart Brain and said it had observed the Cloud Sky Realm for tens of thousands of years.
• Cat Immortal explained that the Cloud Sky Realm was a small cosmic continent and described other vast natural and artificial realms.
• Cat Immortal said a wormhole between Yanhuang Planet and the Cloud Sky Realm had formed by chance.
• Xia Ping asked for his trial reward, and Cat Immortal bragged that the Star Sect possessed a Planet-Annihilating Cannon capable of destroying the Cloud Sky Realm.
• Cat Immortal admitted the cannon had been destroyed, and Xia Ping asked whether the Star Sect had declined and been wiped out.

Cat Immortal explained how Star Sect was nearly destroyed after its Saint sect master offended a stronger Saint, then described the nine levels of the Mortal Realm and their standing in the universe. Xia Ping learned that even the Cloud Sky Realm’s Kings were low-ranking by cosmic standards.

• Cat Immortal said Star Sect’s sect master had offended a powerful Saint, and the resulting conflict had nearly wiped out the sect.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the universe called the King Realm the Mortal Realm and divided it into nine levels, from Purple Mansion to Lightning Tribulation.
• Cat Immortal explained that opening the Purple Mansion fused spiritual power and astral energy into magic power, marking entry into the King Realm.
• Cat Immortal described how As-You-Will and Divine Ability experts controlled magic power and gained strength, though the universe still regarded them as cannon fodder.
• Cat Immortal outlined the growing status of higher-level experts, from Treasure Refining Realm artisans to Lightning Tribulation Realm figures nearing sainthood.

Cat Immortal explained the power and dangers of saints, urging Xia Ping to keep a low profile. After Xia Ping passed the Star Sect’s trial and became its sole heir, Cat Immortal gave him three rewards, including a Smart Brain that could connect to the Cosmic Virtual Network.

• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that saints ruled over star domains but could still be killed by stronger saints, and refused to name the one who had slain his former master.
• Cat Immortal admitted that his master had died after trying to seize another person’s treasure, and advised Xia Ping to avoid trouble and quietly grow stronger.
• Xia Ping promised to keep a low profile, satisfying Cat Immortal.
• Cat Immortal recognized Xia Ping as the Star Sect’s sole heir and gave him a Cosmic Protective Suit, a Star Sect token, and a silver-white Cosmic Communicator.
• Xia Ping put on the suit and ring, then learned the Smart Brain could translate languages, store star maps, and connect to the Cosmic Virtual Network.

Xia Ping bound the Smart Brain to his soul and entered the Cosmic Virtual Network for the first time. Cat Immortal explained how its virtual spaces worked and revealed that the Martial Arts Space let users train with experience that carried over to their real bodies.

• Xia Ping bound the Smart Brain as its First Sequence User and gained its highest authority.
• Xia Ping connected to the Cosmic Virtual Network and appeared in its Entrance Hall.
• Xia Ping tested the virtual projection by striking a wall, and Cat Immortal warned that virtual death could damage his spirit.
• Cat Immortal showed Xia Ping the network's different spaces and explained that users needed Universal Coins for entertainment and learning services.
• Cat Immortal explained that the Martial Arts Space slowed time tenfold and transmitted training experience to users' real bodies.