Chapter Summaries

Gu Xilai informed the kings that an unknown spaceship was approaching the Cloud Sky Realm and urged them to unite its races in preparation. The next day, Xia Ping and the grandmasters entered the Demon King Path, a deadly trial with no known way back.

• Gu Xilai told the kings that a spaceship was nearing the Cloud Sky Realm and that its intentions were unknown.
• Gu Xilai explained that the Cloud Sky Realm's laws limited powerful outsiders and said humanity could retreat to Yanhuang Planet as a last resort.
• Gu Xilai ordered the kings to visit other races and build an alliance in case the aliens invaded.
• Gu Xilai rallied the human kings by recalling humanity's survival of the Great Destruction Era, and they vowed to fight any invaders.
• The Army Marshal brought Xia Ping and the grandmasters to the Demon King Path entrance and warned that nine out of ten would die and none could return.
• The grandmasters entered the Demon King Path, and Xia Ping followed them.

The human Grandmasters entered a demon trial space and were attacked by black Demon Trees that devoured their victims to grow stronger. As more Demon Trees answered the call, one singled out Xia Ping as the weakest target.

• The Grandmasters arrived in a lush forest with rich spiritual energy and discovered that the black vortex had vanished, leaving them with no obvious way back.
• The humans discussed searching for demon prodigies to learn how the trial worked, while Xia Ping watched in silence.
• A pack of black Demon Trees charged from the forest and attacked the Grandmasters with their roots.
• A black Demon Tree pierced a blade cultivator and drained him into a shriveled corpse, then grew stronger from devouring him.
• The Demon Trees summoned more of their kind, and one targeted Xia Ping as the weakest human.

Xia Ping killed the Black Demon Trees with his flame-powered martial arts, revealing himself as their natural enemy. Three veteran human grandmasters joined the fight, but the other grandmasters fled, leaving Xia Ping and the three elders facing the trees.

• Xia Ping killed a Black Demon Tree with No-Beat Palm, provoking the others to attack him.
• Xia Ping used Buddha Light Illuminates All to burn the attacking Black Demon Trees, and they recognized him as the Black Wood Clan’s natural enemy.
• Dozens of Black Demon Trees charged Xia Ping as three veteran human grandmasters came to help.
• Xia Ping and the three grandmasters struck down several Black Demon Trees together.
• Wu Quan, Lv Shan, Ren Haodan, and the other human grandmasters escaped while Xia Ping and the three veterans stayed behind to fight.

After the other human Grandmasters fled, Xia Ping used the Flame Dragon Divine Sword to burn through the Black Demon Trees attacking him and the three elder Grandmasters. With his astral energy nearly exhausted and more enemies approaching, he fled with the three elders.

• Wu Quan, Lv Shan, Ren Haodan, and the other human Grandmasters abandoned Xia Ping and the three elder Grandmasters as the Black Demon Trees attacked.
• The Black Demon Trees concentrated their assault on Xia Ping, and the three elders were badly wounded while trying to protect him.
• Xia Ping summoned the Flame Dragon Divine Sword and unleashed its power with his Pure Yang Indestructible Art and fiery energies.
• Xia Ping's flame dragons burned and destroyed the Black Demon Trees, turning their clustered formation into a spreading inferno.
• After exhausting nearly all his astral energy, Xia Ping called for the three elders to flee, and they followed him away from the approaching Black Demon Trees.

Xia Ping escaped the Black Demon Trees with three grandmasters, healed their injuries with Emerald Vine Pills, and learned that a fight with demons was happening nearby. He and the grandmasters headed toward the battle.

• Xia Ping reached a secluded cave with Liu Qi, Guo Cunyi, and Li Yun after they escaped the Black Demon Trees.
• Xia Ping traded boastful remarks with the three grandmasters, then gave them Emerald Vine Pills to heal their injuries.
• Liu Qi, Guo Cunyi, and Li Yun recovered fully and questioned why Xia Ping had entered the dangerous Trial Space.
• Xia Ping sensed a battle nearby, and Li Yun identified the fighting presence as demons.
• Xia Ping led the grandmasters toward the battle, hoping to capture demons and learn about the Trial Space.

Xia Ping and three old Grandmasters arrived as Rock Giants overwhelmed a group of demon prodigies and Grandmasters. As the demons fled, Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan ran into Xia Ping at the forest’s edge.

• Xia Ping and the three old Grandmasters reached a clearing where dozens of Rock Giants were driving the demons back.
• The Rock Giants killed several demon Grandmasters and left Qingluan injured, while Rabbit Linglong, Doom Crow, Metal Tiger, and the others struggled to resist.
• Qingluan urged the demons to flee and split up, so Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan escaped east as the Rock Giants pursued them.
• Qingluan carried Rabbit Linglong toward the forest’s edge, where they sensed powerful auras waiting ahead.
• Rabbit Linglong recognized Xia Ping among the figures waiting at the forest’s edge and cried out in shock.

Xia Ping appeared in the Demon Race’s Trial Space, startling Rabbit Linglong and the other demons as they fled from the Rock Giants. When a Rock Giant attacked him, Xia Ping destroyed it with a single punch, leaving the remaining giants charging toward him.

• Rabbit Linglong and the Demon Race prodigies recognized Xia Ping and wondered how a human had entered their Trial Space.
• Xia Ping greeted Rabbit Linglong, who hid behind Qingluan and challenged him over his presence in Ten Thousand Demon Mountain.
• The Rock Giants noticed Xia Ping and attacked him as a foreign invader.
• Xia Ping met a Rock Giant’s strike with a punch and shattered its body with Spiral Fist Force.
• The remaining Rock Giants roared and charged at Xia Ping to avenge their companion.

Xia Ping faced dozens of Rock Giants and used the Soul-Absorbing Bell to exploit their weakness to mental attacks. He defeated the nearby giants, leaving their bodies scattered across the ground as Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong watched.

• Dozens of Rock Giants attacked Xia Ping, but Qingluan escaped with Rabbit Linglong and Xia Ping dodged with Kunpeng Step.
• A Rock Giant used a vortex-like technique to control the air and tried to strike Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping summoned the Soul-Absorbing Bell and knocked the attacking Rock Giant down with a mental assault.
• Qingluan explained that Rock Giants were vulnerable to mental attacks because their souls were their weakness.
• Xia Ping unleashed the bell's power across the battlefield, extinguishing the Soul Fire of the Rock Giants in range and making their bodies crumble into boulders.

Xia Ping drove off the Rock Giants and then subdued the demons who had been fleeing them. He captured Rabbit Linglong, knocked out Qingluan, and stopped an eagle demon’s escape, leaving the others too frightened to resist.

• The surviving Rock Giants fled after realizing Xia Ping’s soul attacks could kill them.
• Xia Ping seized and badly injured a monster that cursed him, then captured Rabbit Linglong as she tried to sneak away.
• Qingluan attacked Xia Ping to free Rabbit Linglong, but he blocked her palm and knocked her unconscious with a punch.
• Xia Ping threatened Rabbit Linglong into silence while the surrounding demons hesitated to challenge him.
• An eagle demon tried to escape, but Xia Ping shot it with the Moon-Shooting Bow and warned the others that another arrow would kill any fugitive.

Xia Ping threatened the demons to learn the secrets of the Trial Space and used Rabbit Linglong’s fear for Qingluan to make her agree to explain. The demons could only watch as Rabbit Linglong prepared to tell him what she knew.

• Xia Ping asked the demons how the Trial Space worked and why it could help someone reach the King Realm, but none dared answer.
• Rabbit Linglong refused to reveal the Demon Race’s secret, and Xia Ping dismissed her as someone who knew nothing.
• Xia Ping picked up the unconscious Qingluan and claimed he would torture her for information, alarming Rabbit Linglong and the other demons.
• Rabbit Linglong blocked Xia Ping and offered to tell him everything if he spared Qingluan.
• Xia Ping pretended to doubt Rabbit Linglong before agreeing to listen, while the demons recognized his ploy but dared not intervene.

Rabbit Linglong explained that the Trial Space held the Five Great Races, whose spirit fruits could help someone reach the King Realm. Xia Ping learned that reaching the King Realm was also the only way to escape the space.

• Rabbit Linglong told Xia Ping that an ancient Demon Race figure had brought the Black Wood Clan, Rock Giant Race, Metal Machine Race, Drought Demon Race, and Slime Race from other planets into the secret realm.
• Rabbit Linglong explained that the Five Great Races cultivated spirit fruits, and that consuming all five kinds together could raise someone to the King Realm.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the Five Elements Spirit Fruits were exceptionally valuable throughout the universe and urged him to obtain them.
• Rabbit Linglong revealed that the spirit fruits grew in heavily guarded orchards within the Five Great Races' territories, and that her group had nearly been wiped out trying to enter the Rock Giants' tribe.
• Rabbit Linglong told Xia Ping and the human Grandmasters that advancing to the King Realm was the only way to leave the Trial Space.

Xia Ping ordered the demons to find the Five Great Races' lairs while he sought a place to rest. Meanwhile, the five races' leaders agreed to send elite forces to hunt him down, with the search set to begin the next day.

• Xia Ping told Rabbit Linglong to have the demons locate the lairs of the Five Great Races, and they reluctantly agreed under his threat.
• Xia Ping led the demons to look for a temporary place to rest.
• The Black Wood Leader told the other leaders that humans had entered the secret realm and that Xia Ping had killed many Black Wood and Rock Giants.
• The Rock Giant Leader warned that Xia Ping possessed a spiritual technique that countered Rock Giants, and the leaders agreed he was a serious threat.
• The Black Wood Leader proposed a joint search, and the leaders agreed to send elite soldiers to hunt Xia Ping starting the next day.

Xia Ping used Spirit Liquid to advance to the seventh heaven of the Grandmaster Realm, strengthening his astral energy and mental power. He discovered the Purple Mansion in his mindscape but failed to open its gate, leaving him with a first step toward the King Realm.

• Xia Ping circulated the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and used the remaining power of the Purple Blood Ginseng and Silver Fruit to open several acupoints.
• Xia Ping drank Spirit Liquid from the Shark Demon King's lair and broke through to the seventh heaven of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Xia Ping formed a fiery bird from his astral energy and sent it crashing into a stone wall, where it melted the rock.
• Xia Ping sensed that his mental power had grown by about thirty percent and discovered a purple gate in his mindscape.
• Xia Ping attacked the purple gate with his mental power, suffered its backlash, and concluded that he could not open the Purple Mansion yet.

Qingluan woke up and learned that Rabbit Linglong had revealed the Trial Secret Realm’s secret to save her, but Qingluan reassured her that she did not blame her. Xia Ping appeared, stopped Rabbit Linglong’s accusations, and easily defeated Qingluan’s attack after revealing he had advanced to the seventh level of the Grandmaster realm.

• Qingluan woke up beside Rabbit Linglong and asked whether she had been harmed by Xia Ping.
• Rabbit Linglong explained that she had revealed the Demon King Path’s secret to save Qingluan, and Qingluan comforted her and said she did not blame her.
• Rabbit Linglong complained that Xia Ping was likely plotting something, but Xia Ping appeared and demanded to know who had spread rumors about him.
• Xia Ping rapped Rabbit Linglong on the head, and Qingluan attacked him to protect her.
• Xia Ping caught Qingluan’s kick and neutralized her demonic power, then revealed that he had reached the seventh level of the Grandmaster realm and threatened to teach her a lesson.

Xia Ping forced Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong to wear maid outfits and ordered the two Demon Race Saintesses to serve as maids. The chapter ended when Doom Crow, Metal Tiger, and several other demon prodigies rushed into the cave with urgent news.

• Xia Ping dismissed Qingluan’s warning and declared that he would punish her and Rabbit Linglong despite his earlier promise.
• Xia Ping retrieved two maid outfits from his Space Ring and forced Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong to put them on.
• Xia Ping ordered the two Saintesses to do laundry, make beds, pour tea, and handle his other needs.
• Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong protested the humiliating outfits and Xia Ping’s demands, but he threatened them against resisting.
• Doom Crow, Metal Tiger, and several demon prodigies hurried into the cave to report something important to Xia Ping.

The Doom Crow reported that the Five Great Races had mobilized to hunt Xia Ping, prompting him to consider attacking them. Though he agreed to wait until they learned more about their strength, he still planned to investigate them himself.

• The Doom Crow and the other monsters entered the cave and found Xia Ping with Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan in embarrassing outfits.
• The Doom Crow told Xia Ping that the Five Great Races were searching the secret realm for him and intended to capture or kill him.
• Xia Ping proposed leading the monsters to attack the Five Great Races, but Rabbit Linglong and the others urged him not to rush into a trap.
• Xia Ping agreed to delay an attack until he knew more about the Five Great Races, but said he would investigate them himself.
• The Doom Crow and the other monsters worried that Xia Ping still intended to provoke the Five Great Races.

The allied Drought Demon, Metal Machine, and Black Wood forces discussed their search for Xia Ping and the Five Great Races’ plan to escape their demon-controlled prison. As they argued over Xia Ping’s Sun Essence, an unknown figure suddenly attacked and critically injured the Metal Machine squad leader.

• The three clans’ squad leaders rested after searching for Xia Ping and agreed that finding him could take at least ten days.
• The leaders discussed the Five Great Races’ thousand-year plan to escape their prison and take revenge on the demons who had enslaved them.
• The Black Wood squad leader warned that Xia Ping’s Sun Essence made him a deadly threat to all three clans.
• The Metal Machine squad leader boasted that its clan could kill Xia Ping without help.
• An unknown figure appeared and kicked the Metal Machine squad leader, crushing its chest and sending it crashing through dozens of trees.

Xia Ping appeared before the three races hunting him and swiftly crippled the Drought Demon squad captain with the Spear of Hell. The Black Wood squad captain ordered the assembled soldiers to attack him together, and they surrounded him with a coordinated assault.

• Xia Ping revealed himself to the Black Wood and Drought Demon squad captains, who recognized him as the human they were hunting.
• The Drought Demon squad captain attacked Xia Ping with the Drought Demon Five Ultimate Palms.
• Xia Ping countered with the Spear of Hell, pierced the Drought Demon captain’s hand, and battered it into a boulder.
• The Black Wood squad captain ordered the soldiers of all three races to kill Xia Ping.
• The Black Wood, Mechanical, and Drought Demon soldiers launched attacks from all sides and surrounded Xia Ping.

Xia Ping used the Star-Drawing Technique to devastate elite soldiers of the Blackwood Race, Drought Demons, and machine race, then ordered his monster allies to capture the survivors. After the captives were bound, he directed Doom Crow and the others to investigate the Five Great Races’ dangerous plan.

• Xia Ping combined the Star-Drawing Technique with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and brought down more than a hundred sun stars, killing or grievously wounding the three races’ soldiers.
• Qingluan, Doom Crow, Rabbit Linglong, Metal Tiger, and the other monsters watched in shock as Xia Ping’s attack overwhelmed the enemy.
• Xia Ping ordered his allies to surround and capture the surviving soldiers of the three races.
• Doom Crow and the other monsters beat the wounded soldiers and bound them, leaving them barely alive.
• Xia Ping told Doom Crow and the others to interrogate the captives about the Five Great Races’ plan, which threatened the Demon Race of the Cloud Sky Realm with extermination.

Doom Crow told Xia Ping that the Five Great Races were building an Ancestor Altar to contact their allies across the universe, and Xia Ping decided they had to stop it despite its Demon King guards. After he ordered the prisoners confined, Qingluan warned that keeping them could reveal the group’s location.

• Doom Crow explained that the Ancestor Altar on Ancient Turtle Mountain would connect the Five Great Races with their companions across the universe.
• Xia Ping learned that Demon Kings guarded the altar and that the Five Great Races’ allies could threaten the entire Cloud Sky Realm.
• A Drought Demon captain taunted Xia Ping about the coming reinforcements, and Xia Ping knocked it unconscious with one punch.
• Xia Ping ordered the captured demons locked up, while Qingluan warned that the Metal Machine Clan might track them through an electromagnetic connection.