Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping used one of Cat Immortal’s prepared identities to register for the Cosmic Virtual Network, choosing the provocative alias Wu Wudi. He entered the Martial Arts Space and arrived in a Novice Village, where a group of children mocked him for being an adult.

• Cat Immortal explained that Xia Ping needed a virtual network account to enter and gave him fabricated identity records to use.
• Xia Ping rejected using his real name and registered as Wu Wudi, ignoring Cat Immortal’s warning that the name would attract trouble.
• Xia Ping entered the Martial Arts Space and appeared in an old-fashioned village surrounded by mountains and lush scenery.
• Several elf children and other young-looking residents gathered around Xia Ping and ridiculed him for being an adult in the Novice Village.

Xia Ping entered the virtual Martial Arts Space but was sent to Novice Village because he had not reached the Purple Mansion Realm. The children there mistook him for a strange, weak native, until he showed that he could easily overpower them.

• The Cat Immortal explained that Xia Ping was placed in Novice Village because he had not reached the Purple Mansion Realm, and described the powerful human races found across the universe.
• The children crowded around Xia Ping, called him a native, and poked and prodded him out of curiosity.
• When Xia Ping set Jiajia down, a chubby boy attacked him to protect her, but Xia Ping stopped his punch and sent him flying.
• A boy in a black suit challenged Xia Ping at high speed, but Xia Ping struck him back through a house.

Xia Ping defeated a group of powerful children in Novice Village and learned that he could leave by passing the Martial Arts Academy’s test or opening his Purple Mansion. Cat Immortal urged him to seek the academy’s rewards and explained that the Universal Heaven-Reaching Express Company could deliver them to him, leaving Xia Ping concerned about exposing the Cloud Sky Realm.

• The children attacked Xia Ping, but he easily saw through their immature techniques and knocked them down.
• Xia Ping threatened the children into silence and asked how he could leave Novice Village.
• A little girl explained that he could pass the Martial Arts Academy’s test or open his Purple Mansion to leave.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the academy offered valuable rewards and could even attract a Saint to take him as a disciple.
• Cat Immortal said the Universal Heaven-Reaching Express Company could deliver rewards across the universe and assured Xia Ping that it kept customers’ information private.

Xia Ping learned that deliveries from the universe cost huge sums of Universal Coins, then discovered he needed money even to take the Martial Arts Academy entrance exam. A little girl named Jiajia had 1.3 million Universal Coins in her account, though she did not know why she had so much.

• Cat Immortal explained that Universal Heaven-Reaching Express deliveries cost at least a million Universal Coins and that the Star Sect had fled without its funds to avoid detection by a Saint.
• Xia Ping went with the children to the Martial Arts Academy and learned that the entrance exam cost ten Universal Coins, which he could not afford.
• The children discussed their bank accounts, and Jiajia discovered that hers held 1.3 million Universal Coins.
• Jiajia told Xia Ping that adults had given her money in red envelopes and transfers during New Year and on her birthdays, and her mother had deposited it.

Xia Ping persuaded a group of children to lend him the money in their bank accounts, promising to repay it over a hundred years. He borrowed 23 million Universal Coins and left the children reassured by paying them their first annual installment.

• The children discovered that their bank accounts held hundreds of thousands to over a million Universal Coins each.
• Xia Ping offered to borrow the children's money and repay their principal in yearly installments over a hundred years.
• The children trusted Xia Ping because he was a native and eagerly competed to lend him their money.
• Xia Ping signed loan agreements and borrowed a total of 23 million Universal Coins.
• Xia Ping transferred the children their first year's payment, and they decided he was trustworthy.

Xia Ping entered the Martial Arts Academy examination and learned he would face a Saint Phantom, a formidable opponent whose strength was adjusted to match his own. The exam began with the Saint Phantom launching a devastating punch at him.

• The children logged off to return to school, and Xia Ping headed to the Martial Arts Academy.
• Xia Ping paid ten Universal Coins to enter the academy and encountered a Saint Phantom examiner.
• The Cat Immortal explained that the phantom simulated a Saint's martial arts skill and experience, though it would suppress its strength to Xia Ping's level.
• A mechanical voice announced Xia Ping's examination, and he steadied himself before it began.
• The Saint Phantom opened the examination with a single crushing punch that unleashed hundreds of sonic booms.

Xia Ping fought the Saint Phantom, whose Dao Realm boxing overwhelmed his techniques with rapid, spiraling punches. Though the battle remained at a stalemate, Xia Ping began to grasp the essence of its Spiral Qi Energy and saw a way to improve his attacks.

• The Saint Phantom unleashed a thousand punches, and Xia Ping struggled to defend himself with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.
• The Saint Phantom struck Xia Ping’s forehead and sent him flying, but he quickly stood up and continued fighting.
• Xia Ping counterattacked with nearly every martial art he knew, but the Saint Phantom effortlessly countered them all.
• Xia Ping and the Saint Phantom reached a stalemate, with his defense keeping him standing but his attacks unable to defeat the puppet.
• After another powerful punch sent Xia Ping flying, he realized he was beginning to understand the Saint Phantom’s Spiral Qi Energy.

Xia Ping fought the Saint Phantom for ten days and ten nights in virtual time, using the battle to learn its techniques and master Spiral Force. He defeated the phantom with a single spiraling punch, perfectly passed the test, and earned ten thousand Universal Coins.

• Xia Ping used the Saint Phantom's relentless attacks and his Golden Crow Eye to study its movements and correct his martial arts flaws.
• After ten days and ten nights of fighting, Xia Ping grasped the Saint Phantom's boxing and transformed his inner force into Spiral Force.
• Xia Ping used Spiral Force to pin the Saint Phantom in place and destroy it with a single punch.
• A mechanical voice announced that trial-taker Wu Wudi had perfectly passed the test and awarded him ten thousand Universal Coins.
• Xia Ping collapsed from exhaustion as Cat Immortal watched in disbelief at his feat.

Ye Mengyao learned that a local in the Cosmic Virtual Network’s Novice Village had borrowed 23 million Universal Coins from Ye Jiajia and her friends under a misleading repayment scheme. After realizing he had likely crippled his cultivation to enter the Novice Village, Ye Mengyao and her family became determined to confront him.

• Ye Jiajia told Ye Mengyao that she had lent 1.3 million Federal Coins to a local who promised to repay her 13,000 a year for a hundred years.
• Ye Jiajia revealed that her friends had also lent money, bringing the total borrowed to 23 million Universal Coins.
• Ye Mengyao told Ye Jiajia to wait while she informed their parents and relatives, who grew furious that the local had swindled the children.
• Ye Mengyao wondered how the local had entered the Novice Village, and Ye Jiajia's father concluded that he had crippled his cultivation to get in and obtain the money.
• Ye Mengyao clenched her fists and resolved to find the swindler and settle the score.

The prominent families of the Lingyun Kingdom learned that a swindler had borrowed twenty-three million Universal Coins from their children through legally binding, interest-free contracts, leaving them unable to report him for fraud. They decided to pursue him in Novice Village through underhanded means, though they still did not know how to locate him.

• The Liu Family and other great families discovered that a swindler had taken twenty-three million Universal Coins from their children.
• The families learned that the loans were covered by signed contracts and that Lingyun Kingdom law gave children full civil capacity from age three, making the contracts valid.
• The families realized the swindler was in Novice Village on the Cosmic Virtual Network and could not be tracked through the network.
• Angry family members decided to send people who crippled their cultivation into Novice Village to find and punish the swindler.

After passing the Martial Arts Academy test, Xia Ping emerged into a crowd of thugs demanding repayment for money he had borrowed from wealthy young men. He defended himself with legal arguments and jokes, but the scar-faced man attacked him.

• Xia Ping left the academy and found the Novice Village crowded with vicious-looking adults.
• Xia Ping introduced himself as Wu Wudi, and the men accused him of swindling young masters from prominent families.
• Xia Ping showed them a written loan agreement and insisted he would repay the money in installments over a hundred years.
• Xia Ping tried to persuade the men that the money had been a charitable act, and two of them briefly agreed with him.
• The scar-faced man slapped his gullible companions, threatened Xia Ping, and charged at him.

Xia Ping defeated Scarface with a single punch, stunning the men who had come after him. He challenged the rest to attack together, and they charged at him.

• Scarface attacked Xia Ping with the Mountain Fist Technique, while onlookers expected him to win.
• Xia Ping countered with a punch whose Spiral Force overwhelmed Scarface and made him explode into a ball of light.
• The men were shocked that Scarface had been defeated in one punch and wondered how Xia Ping had done it.
• Xia Ping mocked the group and invited them to attack him all at once.
• Enraged by Xia Ping's taunts, the men agreed to attack together and rushed him.

Xia Ping faced a group of powerful grandmasters in the virtual network and overwhelmed them with his Spiral Fist Force. He left the fight having killed one attacker after another with casual punches.

• A sword grandmaster, a Seven-Severing Palm user, a Wind-Severing Blade wielder, and the other experts attacked Xia Ping together.
• Xia Ping calmly punched the sword expert, tore through his sword aura, and blasted him to pieces.
• Xia Ping's next punch swallowed the young man's Seven-Severing Palm force and crushed his head.
• Xia Ping continued beating the remaining grandmasters to pieces with straightforward punches and kicks.

Xia Ping stopped practicing Spiral Force after defeating the group of men who had come to punish him, forcing them out of the Virtual Network World. After the young masters watched a recording revealing his mastery of Saint-level martial arts, Xia Ping sent a warning that he would target their sons if they troubled him again.

• Xia Ping stopped practicing and found that everyone around him had been defeated and forcibly logged out of the Virtual Network World.
• The scarred man and the others admitted to the young masters that Xia Ping had beaten them despite their numbers.
• The scarred man showed the young masters a recording of Xia Ping defeating the group with Spiral Force.
• A young master recognized Spiral Force as an esoteric principle of Saint-level martial arts, and the group wondered who had taught it to Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping sent the scarred man a message warning them not to trouble him again or he would beat up their sons.

The prominent families' young masters were enraged when Xia Ping threatened to target their children in Novice Village, where the Martial Arts Space offered vital training opportunities. After Xia Ping told them to get lost, they decided to keep their children offline temporarily and send more experts to defeat him.

• The young masters denounced Xia Ping for threatening to bully their children, but recognized that their families depended on the Martial Arts Space's opportunities and accelerated training time.
• One young master ordered the scar-faced man to reject Xia Ping's threat and demand that he return the money and apologize.
• Xia Ping replied, "Get lost!", infuriating the prominent families' young masters.
• The young masters considered keeping their children out of the Martial Arts Space, while acknowledging they could not do so forever.
• The group resolved to send experts into Novice Village to repeatedly attack Wu Wudi and overwhelm him with numbers.

Ye Mengyao angrily confronted Xia Ping over his treatment of children, but he replied with a sexist lecture that made her even more furious. After Xia Ping logged off the virtual network, Ye Mengyao shared his message with her friends.

• Ye Mengyao learned that Xia Ping had targeted children and sent him an angry voice message demanding that he return the money and turn himself in.
• Cat Immortal translated Ye Mengyao's message for Xia Ping, who dismissed her warning and sent back a long, sexist reply.
• Xia Ping logged off the virtual network after spending ten days there and fighting the Saint Phantom.
• Ye Mengyao erupted over Xia Ping's insults and shared his message in her girlfriends' group chat.

Ye Mengyao rallied her friends against Xia Ping after he angered her, while Xia Ping left the Virtual Universe and used the martial insights he gained to break through to the Grandmaster Fifth Heaven Realm.

• Ye Mengyao told her chat group that Xia Ping had scammed children, used a child as a hostage, and insulted her.
• Her friends condemned Xia Ping and offered to seal their cultivation so they could enter Novice Village and punish him.
• Ye Mengyao thanked her friends and vowed that Xia Ping would pay when he appeared.
• Xia Ping returned to his body at the base in Ruin 88, where the martial experience from the Virtual Universe activated his stored medicinal power.
• Xia Ping used Spirit Liquid to break through a new acupoint and reach the Grandmaster Fifth Heaven Realm.

Xia Ping advanced to the fifth heaven of the Grandmaster Realm, mastered Spiral Force, and earned four hundred million Hate Points. He decided to avoid Novice Village until he grew stronger, then learned that adults could enter as limited visitors and teachers.

• Xia Ping tested his improved strength and used a punch infused with Spiral Force to dent the meditation room’s Cosmic Crystal wall, astonishing Cat Immortal.
• Xia Ping spent another day cultivating and mastered the strength he had gained from his breakthrough.
• The system announced that Xia Ping had earned four hundred million Hate Points for angering powerful figures across the universe.
• Xia Ping decided to stay out of Novice Village until he became stronger, since powerful aliens might ambush him there.
• Cat Immortal explained that adults could visit Novice Village as teachers, but their time and strength were restricted and they could not receive student benefits or take tests.

Xia Ping learned that the damaged Spaceship in the Relic Base could travel across the universe, but repairing it would cost at least a billion Universal Coins. He then asked the Cat Immortal to upgrade his Moon Goddess and brought the ship into the room.

• The Cat Immortal told Xia Ping about the damaged Spaceship in the Relic Base and explained that its technology far surpassed Cloud Sky Realm ships.
• The Cat Immortal listed the rare materials and equipment needed to repair the Spaceship and estimated the cost at a billion Universal Coins.
• Xia Ping struggled to imagine earning that much money, while the Cat Immortal suggested he could save for centuries.
• Xia Ping asked the Cat Immortal to improve his Moon Goddess, and he summoned the ship from his Space Ring into the room.

Xia Ping showed Cat Immortal his spatial treasure and spaceship, learning that the Space Ring was exceptionally valuable and dangerous to reveal. Cat Immortal offered to upgrade the spaceship if Xia Ping could obtain materials costing over seven trillion Federal Coins.

• Xia Ping produced a spaceship from his Space Ring, shocking Cat Immortal.
• Cat Immortal warned Xia Ping that spatial treasures were priceless and urged him to keep the Space Ring hidden from others.
• Xia Ping revealed that the Space Ring could store living creatures, further astonishing Cat Immortal.
• Cat Immortal scanned the spaceship and said it could upgrade its speed, defenses, weapons, and spatial-jump range within three months.
• Cat Immortal gave Xia Ping a long list of upgrade materials costing more than seven trillion Federal Coins, and Xia Ping agreed to earn the money.