Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping used captured soldiers from the three great races as bait, then returned to the hidden cave and focused on stopping the Five Great Races' Ancestor Altar. Cat Immortal reminded him that the Cosmic Virtual Network could help him train faster, and Xia Ping realized it could give him more time to grow stronger.

• Xia Ping reassured the captured soldiers that he would spare them, then ordered them locked in a cave with miniature nuclear bombs planted nearby to ambush rescuers.
• Doom Crow and the other monsters imprisoned the soldiers and gagged them when they protested, while Rabbit Linglong marveled at Xia Ping's preparations.
• An hour later, Xia Ping and the others returned to their hidden cave, and Xia Ping worried that destroying the Five Great Races' Ancestor Altar would be difficult while King-level cultivators guarded it.
• Xia Ping concluded that he needed more time to strengthen himself, and Cat Immortal urged him to use the Cosmic Virtual Network.
• Xia Ping realized the network could accelerate his training and provide expert opponents to help temper his skills.

Xia Ping returned to the Martial Arts Space and found the children avoiding him because their families had called him a swindler. He won their trust by siding with their complaints about their parents, then taught them his deliberately irresponsible rules for avoiding blame and effort.

• Xia Ping logged into the Cosmic Virtual Network and appeared in the Novice Village plaza, where the children had resumed their training after his pursuers stopped waiting for him.
• Ye Jiajia and the other children accused Xia Ping of swindling them and demanded their money back because their families had warned them about him.
• Xia Ping questioned whether their families were always right and invited the children to complain about rules they disliked.
• The children sympathized with Xia Ping after he told them their parents were wrong to make them eat disliked foods, wake early, and limit their activities.
• Xia Ping advised the children to blame society or the universe, run from difficult situations, and expect rewards without effort.

Xia Ping left the children after teaching them his Life Ease Law, and Ye Jiajia told her older sister about it over breakfast. Ye Mengyao decided the “native” was corrupting her sister and vowed to make him pay.

• Xia Ping praised the children for embracing his Life Ease Law and left for the Martial Arts Hall.
• Ye Jiajia and the other children decided they had only lent Xia Ping their money, then hurriedly logged out for class.
• Ye Jiajia told Ye Mengyao that she had met the native again and excitedly described his life lessons.
• Ye Mengyao became furious, fearing Xia Ping was turning Ye Jiajia into a useless deadbeat.
• Ye Mengyao ordered Ye Jiajia to go to class and vowed to make the native pay.

Ye Mengyao rallied the great families and her friends against Wu Wudi, accusing him of corrupting young people with the Life Ease Law. A friend offered her a Sealing Talisman so she could enter Novice Village and confront him herself.

• Ye Mengyao spread the news that Wu Wudi had returned, and the great families mobilized elite forces to punish him.
• Ye Mengyao's friends blamed Wu Wudi for relatives who had become shut-ins and abandoned their prospects.
• The women concluded that Wu Wudi's influence threatened families across the universe and urged Ye Mengyao to stop him.
• Ye Mengyao explained that Wu Wudi remained in Novice Village, where ordinary forces could not reach him.
• A woman offered to send Ye Mengyao a Sealing Talisman that would let her enter Novice Village, and Ye Mengyao welcomed the chance to confront Wu Wudi.

Xia Ping accepted a hidden mission to defeat the bandit chief One-Eyed Wolf, then ran into hired thugs sent to attack him. He left one thug badly injured and challenged the rest as they blocked his way.

• Xia Ping visited the Martial Arts Academy, where the village chief offered him a mission to eliminate the bandit chief One-Eyed Wolf.
• Cat Immortal urged Xia Ping to accept the hidden mission, saying it could bring valuable rewards, and Xia Ping agreed.
• As Xia Ping headed out of the Novice Village, dozens of thugs hired by major families spotted him and surrounded him.
• Xia Ping struck a giant thug with the Immovable Tathagata Palm, sending him crashing into the village wall with broken bones.
• Xia Ping challenged the remaining thugs to attack him and clear his path.

Xia Ping confronted a man in blue who attacked him with the rare Separating Fire Silkworm Net in the Martial Arts Space. Xia Ping absorbed its Separating Fire energy and began taking the net, then struck at the furious man in blue.

• The man in blue summoned the Separating Fire Silkworm Net, and onlookers expected it to defeat Xia Ping.
• Cat Immortal explained that the net was a rare treasure obtained within the virtual Martial Arts Space.
• The man in blue spread the blazing net across the sky and tried to trap Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping stopped fleeing and used a vortex of Spiral Force to draw in the net and absorb its Separating Fire energy.
• The man in blue shouted that the net belonged to him, and Xia Ping answered with a powerful punch.

Xia Ping defeated a group of cultivators in the Virtual World and claimed the Separating Fire Silkworm Net, wielding it with far greater power than its previous owner. With the path clear, he set off to find the bandit king, One-Eyed Wolf.

• Xia Ping killed the man in blue with a single punch, causing him to drop the Separating Fire Silkworm Net as he was expelled from the Virtual World.
• Xia Ping seized the net and transformed its flames into Hell Golden Crows that swept across the surrounding crowd.
• The Hell Golden Crows burned or blasted the cultivators to death, and Xia Ping praised the treasure artifact's power.
• Xia Ping left the village and headed for the place where One-Eyed Wolf was.

After Wu Wudi defeated the mercenaries and stole Huang Jie's Separating Fire Silkworm Net, the young masters learned that he might be pursuing a Novice Village mission and planned to hunt him down. They left vowing to seize his possible Saint-level martial arts and recover the treasure, though Huang Jie had little chance of getting it back.

• The mercenaries told the young masters that Wu Wudi had beaten them and caused the Virtual World to reject them, and one young master slapped a mercenary for failing.
• Huang Jie revealed that Wu Wudi had stolen his Separating Fire Silkworm Net and used it to defeat everyone.
• Huang Jie blamed Wu Wudi's strength on possible Saint-level martial arts, shocking the young masters.
• A young master recalled that Wu Wudi seemed eager to complete a Novice Village mission, prompting the group to fear he would claim its valuable rewards.
• The young masters vowed to gather treasure artifacts, capture Wu Wudi, and force him to reveal his martial arts, while Huang Jie pleaded for his stolen net to be returned.

Xia Ping took Ye Jiajia and the other children into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find the bandit leader One-Eyed Wolf, following signposts until they reached his stronghold. Meanwhile, a crowd of criminals hired to deal with Xia Ping arrived in Novice Village and waited for Wu Wudi to return.

• Ye Jiajia and the other children skipped school and persuaded Xia Ping to take them along to see the bandits.
• Xia Ping realized he did not know where One-Eyed Wolf’s lair was, but Ye Jiajia pointed out a signpost directing them onward.
• Xia Ping and the children followed signposts through the mountains for three days in the Virtual World and reached the bandit stronghold.
• A group of one or two hundred criminals arrived in Novice Village, intending to carry out the mission against Xia Ping.
• The criminals learned Wu Wudi had gone out on a mission and decided to wait for him to return, while a veiled woman watched from the edge of the crowd.

Xia Ping and the children confronted One-Eyed Wolf and his bandits at the mountain stronghold. After the children overwhelmed the bandits, One-Eyed Wolf attacked, and Xia Ping stepped in with the Immoveable Tathagata Palm.

• One-Eyed Wolf led over a hundred armored bandits out of the mountain stronghold as the children excitedly inspected and mocked them.
• The children charged the bandits and swiftly knocked nearly half of them down with their powerful strikes.
• One-Eyed Wolf attacked the children with a flame-powered palm, blasting them away but leaving them unharmed.
• Xia Ping recognized One-Eyed Wolf's peak ninth-level Grandmaster cultivation and powerful martial art as the mission's greatest obstacle.
• One-Eyed Wolf charged with flaming fists, and Xia Ping countered with the Immoveable Tathagata Palm.

Xia Ping fought One-Eyed Wolf, whose Saint-level flame techniques nearly overwhelmed him. Xia Ping countered with the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and knocked the bandit chief into a mountain, but One-Eyed Wolf rose and charged again.

• One-Eyed Wolf struck Xia Ping with blazing punches, and Xia Ping realized the bandit chief wielded Saint-level martial arts and a powerful strange flame.
• One-Eyed Wolf unleashed a barrage of flame-filled fist imprints to finish Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and Spiral Force to shatter the imprints and strike One-Eyed Wolf.
• One-Eyed Wolf crashed into a mountain, spat blood, then charged at Xia Ping again.

Xia Ping refined his control of Spiral Force during his fight with One-Eyed Wolf and created the Black Vortex Ripple Fist. The attack overwhelmed One-Eyed Wolf and burned him until he vanished in a ball of white light.

• Xia Ping and One-Eyed Wolf exchanged powerful fiery attacks, turning the surrounding area into a sea of flames.
• Xia Ping realized he could infuse Spiral Force into his fiery Qi, greatly increasing the penetrating power of his blows.
• One-Eyed Wolf gathered his energy into a concentrated beam to finish Xia Ping quickly.
• Xia Ping invented the Black Vortex Ripple Fist and launched a spiraling fireball that swallowed One-Eyed Wolf's beam.
• The fireball tore through One-Eyed Wolf's Body-Protecting Qi and body, engulfed him in flames, and made him vanish in a ball of white light.

Xia Ping defeated One-Eyed Wolf and obtained the lost Saint-level Yang God Fist manual, then joined the children in searching the abandoned bandit stronghold. Cat Immortal explained that the stronghold’s treasure could be used as Gold Coins in the Martial Arts Space, leaving Xia Ping interested in earning wealth there as well.

• After One-Eyed Wolf died, Xia Ping picked up the Yang God Fist manual, and Cat Immortal explained its history and power.
• Cat Immortal reassured Xia Ping that few people would recognize the ancient technique, and Xia Ping put it away to learn it later.
• The bandits fled after seeing One-Eyed Wolf defeated, while Xia Ping let them go because his mission was complete.
• The children celebrated and searched the empty stronghold, finding a secret chamber filled with treasure after several hours.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the treasure could be exchanged for Gold Coins used to buy goods and privileges in the Martial Arts Space.

Xia Ping discovered that the bandit vault held about a million Gold Coins and used his Starry Gate account’s virtual storage to collect the treasure. He persuaded the children to train until they could leave Novice Village, promising to take them bandit hunting for richer spoils.

• Xia Ping learned from Cat Immortal that the vault contained about a million Gold Coins and that his account had a large virtual storage space.
• The children gleefully looted the vault, even tearing apart its walls to collect luminous pearls, while Xia Ping tried to claim their treasure.
• Xia Ping convinced the children to treat the treasure as startup money and promised them richer targets beyond Novice Village.
• Ye Jiajia pointed out that they could not leave Novice Village yet, so Xia Ping urged the children to reach the Purple Mansion Realm.
• The children agreed to work hard so they could leave and hunt bandits with Xia Ping.

Xia Ping spent the night at the bandits’ stronghold and used 300 million Hate Points to master the Saint-level Yang God Fist. After practicing through the night, he discovered that cultivating in the Virtual Network World also transformed his real body.

• Xia Ping collected the stronghold’s gold, silver, and jewels, then stayed there overnight with the children.
• Xia Ping spent 300 million Hate Points to learn the Yang God Fist and grasped its ability to absorb and fuse exotic flames.
• Xia Ping practiced the Yang God Fist through the night, causing his three exotic flames to begin merging and devastating the surrounding mountains.
• Xia Ping absorbed flame essence from the air and felt his body nearing a breakthrough as the technique tempered him toward a Yang God Body.
• Xia Ping realized that cultivating in the Virtual Network World was also transforming his real body.

More than two hundred mercenaries waited near Novice Village to ambush Xia Ping, while Ye Jiajia sensed their presence as Xia Ping and the children returned from the bandits’ base. Xia Ping blamed the ambushers on One-Eyed Wolf’s surviving bandits and planned to turn their trap against them.

• The mercenaries waited in the forest for Xia Ping, hoping to kill him and take his rewards and Separating Fire Silkworm Net.
• Ye Mengyao used her perception to monitor the surrounding forest while waiting for Xia Ping to arrive.
• Ye Jiajia sensed an ambush as Xia Ping and the children approached Novice Village.
• Xia Ping claimed the ambushers were survivors of One-Eyed Wolf’s bandit gang, and the children eagerly agreed to fight them.
• Xia Ping told the children to follow him so they could discover the ambushers’ numbers and attack them by surprise.

Xia Ping used the children as bait to ambush and kill a group of mercenaries who mistook them for a clue to Wu Wudi. After collecting the dropped treasures, Ye Jiajia discovered several Yin Thunder Bombs among the loot.

• A group of mercenaries found the children in the forest and asked where they had come from.
• The children told the mercenaries they were with Big Brother Native and pointed behind them.
• Xia Ping charged in and killed all the mercenaries with the Yang God Fist.
• The children collected the mercenaries' dropped treasures while Xia Ping praised them for acting as bait.
• Xia Ping complained that each mercenary had carried only about a hundred thousand Universal Coins' worth of treasure.
• Ye Jiajia found five or six silver Yin Thunder Bombs among the loot.

Xia Ping discovered that the mercenaries carried fifteen Yin Thunder Bombs and planned to use them against the gang. As more than a hundred mercenaries surrounded him and mistook the children with him for hostages, Xia Ping sprang a huge net trap.

• Little Ye Jiajia explained that Yin Thunder Bombs could break through Body-Protecting Qi and devastate cultivators.
• Xia Ping realized the mercenaries had prepared the bombs to ambush him and decided to use them against the gang.
• Little Ye Jiajia sensed more enemies approaching, and Xia Ping told the children to stay behind him as he prepared to fight.
• More than a hundred mercenaries surrounded Xia Ping and the children, then hesitated when they recognized the children as descendants of powerful families.
• Ye Mengyao spotted her sister Ye Jiajia among the children, while the mercenaries accused Xia Ping of taking them hostage.
• Xia Ping swept his hand through the air, triggering a huge net that burst from beneath the ground and covered hundreds of meters.

Xia Ping trapped dozens of mercenaries in the Separating Fire Silkworm Net and burned them to ash. When the survivors charged him, he detonated fifteen Yin Thunder Bombs, wiping out most of the remaining mercenaries and leaving their loot scattered across the ground.

• Xia Ping used the Separating Fire Silkworm Net to trap dozens of mercenaries and burn them out of the Virtual World.
• The surviving mercenaries angrily charged Xia Ping after witnessing their comrades die.
• Xia Ping hurled all fifteen Yin Thunder Bombs into the crowd and detonated them.
• The blasts killed almost a hundred mercenaries, leaving only a quarter of the group alive and piles of loot on the ground.

Xia Ping used a Yin Thunder Bomb to devastate the mercenaries, then led the young heirs in an assault. As the mercenaries turned on the children, Xia Ping intervened with the Yang God Fist.

• Xia Ping’s Yin Thunder Bomb killed many mercenaries, while the survivors hesitated to use their own bombs for fear of harming the children.
• Xia Ping charged the mercenaries, followed by a group of young heirs who attacked with their various powers.
• Ye Jiajia, Xiao Dong, and a Skywing child each killed mercenaries with their abilities, while other children struck with frost, lightning, and Destruction Divine Light.
• The mercenaries abandoned their restraint and sent sword-wielders to attack the children.
• Xia Ping intercepted the sword-wielders with the Yang God Fist, shattering their Sword Qi.