Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping used his newly created Black Vortex Ripple Fist to defeat the mercenaries attacking him and the children. He then pursued and killed the distant archer, leaving the children safe.

• Xia Ping killed seven or eight mercenaries with a scorching punch, earning the children’s cheers.
• A group of mercenaries attacked Xia Ping with a trident, rake, spear, and arrows from a distant archer.
• Xia Ping unleashed Black Vortex Ripple Fist and swallowed the mercenaries’ attacks, including the archer’s arrow.
• Xia Ping struck the nearby mercenaries with Spiral Force, destroying their bodies and making them vanish from the Virtual World.
• Xia Ping used Kunpeng Step to reach the archer and killed him with a backhanded palm.

Xia Ping nearly wiped out the mercenaries before Ye Mengyao revealed herself as a powerful archer and attacked him with tracking arrows. He blocked her barrage with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, and Ye Mengyao prepared to use the Elf Race’s Void Assassination Art.

• Xia Ping defeated most of the remaining mercenaries, leaving them shaken and convinced their mission was doomed.
• Xia Ping sensed a powerful energy arrow from afar and dodged as it blasted through a distant rocky hill.
• Xia Ping spotted Ye Mengyao on a nearby hill, where she began firing a barrage of Qi arrows at him.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to destroy Ye Mengyao’s tracking arrows, though he felt their piercing force.
• Ye Mengyao resolved to break through Xia Ping’s defense and invoked the Elf Race’s Void Assassination Art.

Ye Mengyao attacked Xia Ping with a powerful Void Assassination Art, but he dodged her arrow before the children intervened and trapped her in a fight. As she held back to avoid hurting them, Ye Mengyao grew furious with Xia Ping and escaped their encirclement using Shifting Form and Changing Shadow.

• Ye Mengyao fired a nearly invisible energy arrow at Xia Ping, who evaded it with the Kunpeng Step.
• Ye Mengyao prepared to attack again, but Ye Jiajia and the other children rushed in to defend Xia Ping.
• The children’s attacks forced Ye Mengyao to retreat, and she refrained from striking back because she feared hurting them.
• Xia Ping realized Ye Mengyao was holding back, while Ye Jiajia and the children continued calling her a female bandit.
• Ye Mengyao blamed Xia Ping for deceiving the children and used Shifting Form and Changing Shadow to escape their attacks.

Xia Ping battled Ye Mengyao, breaking through her defenses and overcoming her wood-based techniques with the Yang God Fist’s flames. Ye Mengyao survived by drawing on her healing power, while Xia Ping was left admiring her after his flames burned away her clothes.

• Xia Ping caught up with Ye Mengyao and shattered her protective barrier with a Spiral Qi Energy punch, sending her crashing through a hill.
• Ye Mengyao recovered rapidly with the Azure Emperor Divine Art and challenged Xia Ping to fight her at close range.
• Ye Mengyao attacked Xia Ping with the Azure Emperor Silk-Winding Hand, but Xia Ping incinerated her steel-like astral threads with the Yang God Fist.
• Xia Ping’s flames blasted Ye Mengyao away and began burning her body, but she extinguished them by drawing on her life energy and potential.
• Xia Ping noticed that the flames had burned away Ye Mengyao’s clothes and looked her over as they fought far from the others.

Xia Ping fought Ye Mengyao in the Novice Village, taunting her with claims that he would knock her out and take her away. She escaped using Shifting Shadows, leaving him unable to catch her.

• Ye Mengyao covered herself with true energy after Xia Ping recognized her as an Elf and compared her to Ye Jiajia.
• Ye Mengyao attacked Xia Ping, but his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art blocked her palm strike.
• Xia Ping teased Ye Mengyao about marrying him and having children, then charged at her.
• Ye Mengyao fought back, but Xia Ping's attacks burned away her true energy and damaged her energy garment.
• Ye Mengyao escaped with Shifting Shadows, and Xia Ping let her go, expecting another chance to catch her.

After defeating the mercenaries and completing the One-Eyed Wolf mission, Xia Ping collected valuable loot and received three Lesser Teleportation Talismans. When he logged out of the Virtual World, the accumulated experience loosened his bottleneck, bringing him close to the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm.

• Xia Ping told Ye Jiajia and the other children that the female bandit had escaped, and they celebrated their victory over the mercenaries.
• The children learned their parents had discovered they skipped class and hurried back to Novice Village to log out.
• Xia Ping collected the mercenaries’ treasure, including fifty Yin Thunder Bombs, and estimated his total wealth at forty-nine million Universal Coins.
• Xia Ping reported completing the mission to the Novice Village chief, who rewarded him with three Lesser Teleportation Talismans.
• Xia Ping logged out of the Virtual World and absorbed the memories of his training, causing his cultivation to surge and his bottleneck to loosen.

Xia Ping cultivated with three strange flames and Spirit Liquid, refining his body and soul as he advanced to the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm. He failed to break the gate of the Purple Mansion but continued absorbing energy to prepare for the secret realm.

• Xia Ping fused the Earth Heart Earth Fire, Sun Essence, and Life Fire into a Yang God Seed that refined his body and Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• The Soul Crystal from the Soul-Devouring Beast melted, strengthening Xia Ping’s soul power and expanding his perception to fifty kilometers.
• Xia Ping absorbed Spirit Liquid, opened twelve acupoints, and reached the peak of the seventh level of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Xia Ping broke through another acupoint and advanced to the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Xia Ping struck the Purple Mansion gate with his spiritual power but could not break it, then continued absorbing Spirit Liquid to strengthen himself for the secret realm.

The major families confronted the mercenaries after they were wiped out by Wu Wudi, with both sides blaming each other for the defeat. Ye Mengyao also returned from the Virtual World and told her girlfriends she had failed to eliminate the swindler because he had used her younger sister as a hostage.

• The major families accused the mercenaries of taking Wu Wudi's money after more than two hundred of them were defeated.
• The mercenaries blamed the families for letting their children become hostages and said Wu Wudi was invincible among those of the same rank.
• A mercenary warned the families not to pursue Wu Wudi in Novice Village, and the mercenaries refused to attack him there again.
• Ye Mengyao left the Virtual World and told her girlfriends she had not eliminated Wu Wudi.
• Ye Mengyao claimed Wu Wudi had used her younger sister as a shield, forcing her to fight with her hands tied.

Ye Mengyao and her friends blamed Wu Wudi for taking Ye Jiajia hostage and planned to catch him when he left the Novice Village. Meanwhile, Ye Jiajia and other children promised to train diligently, though Jiajia secretly hoped to grow strong enough to leave the village and join Wu Wudi.

• Ye Mengyao's friends learned that Wu Wudi had supposedly taken her younger sister hostage and vowed to help her get revenge.
• Ye Mengyao agreed to wait for Wu Wudi to leave the Novice Village, then capture and punish him.
• Mother Ye punished Ye Jiajia for skipping class and warned her not to play in the Virtual World again.
• Ye Jiajia promised to study and train hard so she could reach the Purple Mansion Realm and secretly follow Wu Wudi to fight bandits.
• Parents in other families were pleased when their children also promised to cultivate diligently, though they still wanted revenge on Wu Wudi for the money he had taken.

After consolidating his cultivation at the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm, Xia Ping learned that the Five Great Races were arresting humans across the secret realm to force him to surrender. He left his cave with Doom Crow and faced the threat that the captured humans would be executed if he did not appear.

• Xia Ping completed a night of cultivation, opened more acupoints, and strengthened his mastery of the Yang God Fist.
• The system awarded Xia Ping 250 million Hate Points for angering cosmic mercenaries, bringing his total to 580 million.
• Doom Crow called Xia Ping out of his cave and was astonished when Xia Ping effortlessly reduced the entrance boulder to dust.
• Doom Crow told Xia Ping that soldiers of the Five Great Races were conducting a carpet search and capturing humans throughout the secret realm.
• Doom Crow said the Five Great Races were threatening to execute their human prisoners unless Xia Ping showed himself.

Wu Quan, Lv Shan, Ren Haodan, and the other captured humans were accused by the Five Great Races of helping Xia Ping and were pressured to reveal his whereabouts. They insisted they truly did not know where he was, but the soldiers believed they were shielding him and threatened to torture them.

• The Five Great Races imprisoned nearly all the humans from the trial and bound them with volcanic iron chains.
• A Black Wood Tribe squad captain accused Wu Quan and the others of sharing Xia Ping’s guilt and threatened to kill them if he could not find Xia Ping.
• A Drought Demon Clan squad captain interrogated the prisoners, demanding to know where Xia Ping was hiding.
• Lv Shan said he did not know Xia Ping’s whereabouts and resented him for drawing the Five Great Races’ wrath onto them.
• The soldiers accused the prisoners of shielding Xia Ping and threatened to torture them, while Ren Haodan and the others insisted they would have told the truth if they knew.

The Five Great Races tortured Wu Quan and the other humans to learn Xia Ping’s whereabouts, but they insisted they did not know. The Machine Race squad captain decided to use them as bait, leaving Wu Quan and the others to silently hope Xia Ping would not come to save them.

• The Five Great Races’ soldiers brutally beat Wu Quan and the others, demanding that they reveal where Xia Ping was.
• Wu Quan and the others insisted they did not know Xia Ping’s whereabouts, but their captors mistook their answers for lies and kept torturing them.
• The Drought Demon Clan squad captain worried that further beatings would kill the humans before they gave up any information.
• The Machine Race squad captain proposed using Wu Quan and the others as bait to lure Xia Ping into a trap.
• The Five Great Races’ soldiers celebrated the plan, while Wu Quan and the others silently recognized that Xia Ping had no reason to risk saving them.

Xia Ping arrived at the Five Great Races' camp to negotiate the release of the human captives, backed by demons and human grandmasters. The elders spotted a massive force concealed around the camp and held back from attacking.

• A scout reported that Xia Ping had appeared outside the camp and wanted the Five Great Races to return their human captives.
• The elders remembered Xia Ping's nuclear-bomb trap and argued over whether to attack or suspect another scheme.
• The scout revealed that Xia Ping had brought a large number of helpers, prompting the elders to gather at the camp entrance.
• Xia Ping stood outside the camp with Rabbit Linglong, Qingluan, the Doom Crow, and three human grandmasters behind him.
• The Machine Race elder stopped the Black Wood Tribe elder from attacking after the elders noticed thousands of hidden forces surrounding the camp.

Xia Ping used a jungle bluff to make the Five Great Races fear an ambush, then confronted their elders and demanded the human captives be returned. The elders refused, but they held back from attacking because they believed Xia Ping had a hidden army nearby.

• Xia Ping reassured the Metal Tiger and the other monsters that the swaying branches would fool the aliens, and said they could escape if discovered.
• The Doom Crow spotted the alien elders leaving their camp, and Xia Ping led the monsters out to meet them.
• Xia Ping demanded that the elders return his friends and threatened to flatten the Five Great Races, while the elders hesitated because they feared an ambush.
• The elders cursed Xia Ping and refused his demand, and the Drought Demon Clan elder challenged him while its companions restrained it.
• Xia Ping provoked the Drought Demon Clan elder, then threatened the aliens and ordered them to feed and serve the captives well.

Xia Ping warned the Five Great Races to release their human captives within three days, then left as their elders suspected he was setting a trap. A Shadow Demon infiltrated the camp and told Wu Quan and the other captives that it had come under Xia Ping’s orders to get them out, leaving them wary of his motives.

• Xia Ping gave the Five Great Races three days to release the human captives and warned them of the consequences if they refused.
• The elders considered attacking Xia Ping, but the Machine Race elder cautioned them against acting rashly.
• The Slime elder reported that a Shadow Demon had infiltrated the camp, and the Machine Race elder ordered the Slimes to monitor it instead of capturing it.
• The Shadow Demon appeared before Wu Quan and the other human captives and said it had come on Lord Xia’s orders to get them out.
• Wu Quan and the others doubted the Shadow Demon and wondered whether Xia Ping’s offer was a trick.

A Shadow Demon told Wu Quan and the other human prisoners that Xia Ping planned to attack the Five Great Races’ camp in three nights and urged them to help from within. The elders overheard the conversation, and the prisoners were left at their mercy as the aliens began beating them.

• The Shadow Demon claimed Xia Ping would launch a surprise attack in three nights and free the prisoners to help him from inside the camp.
• The Five Great Races’ elders learned of the plan and realized Xia Ping had used the promised three-day delay to lull them into lowering their guard.
• Wu Quan and the other prisoners doubted the Shadow Demon’s story but saw Xia Ping as their only chance to survive.
• The elders stormed into the prison and confronted the humans after overhearing their conversation with the Shadow Demon.
• Lv Shan tried to deny knowing the Shadow Demon, but the Drought Demon Clan elder punched him and the other elders ordered the prisoners beaten.

Xia Ping used the human captives as bait to make the Five Great Races draw their elite troops away from their headquarters. With the aliens preparing for an ambush at the temporary camp, Xia Ping and his allies planned to strike the weakened headquarters three nights later and take the Five Elements Spirit Fruit.

• The elders of the Five Great Races beat Lv Shan and the other human captives, then decided to summon tribal elites and ambush the humans at their temporary camp.
• The Doom Crow reported that the Five Great Races were moving their elites, confirming that their headquarters was being left with fewer guards.
• Xia Ping revealed that he had used the captives to lure the aliens away from their headquarters and planned to seize the Five Elements Spirit Fruit.
• Rabbit Linglong, Qingluan, and the other monsters agreed to keep pretending they would attack the camp until they struck the headquarters three nights later.
• The three human Grandmaster elders and the monsters prepared to follow Xia Ping's plan, hoping the Five Elements Spirit Fruit would let them reach the King Realm.

Xia Ping and his companions reached the Five Great Races’ city to investigate the Five Elements Spirit Fruits growing at its center. He considered taking the divine trees for humanity, believing his Life Fire might keep them alive after transplanting.

• The elders of the Five Great Races gathered at their camp and waited confidently for Xia Ping’s planned night attack, while Wu Quan and the other imprisoned human Grandmasters hoped Xia Ping would rescue them.
• Xia Ping and his companions arrived at a mountain overlooking the city, about a thousand li from it.
• Qingluan explained how the city was divided into five districts, each occupied by one of the Five Great Races.
• Qingluan showed Xia Ping the five divine trees at the center of the city, where the Five Elements Spirit Fruits grew behind an energy barrier.
• Rabbit Linglong warned Xia Ping that uprooted trees would wither because only the Five Great Races could cultivate them, but Xia Ping believed his Life Fire could sustain them and let humanity produce the fruits.

Xia Ping and his allies infiltrated the giant city to reach the sacred ground and take the Five Elements Spirit Fruit. After they defeated its gate guards, the alarm sounded, and the Five Great Races rushed to defend the sacred ground.

• Xia Ping and his allies slipped into the city while its Rock Giant guards remained distracted.
• Xia Ping discovered that a Five Elements formation sealed off the central sacred ground, so he and the others decided to attack its entrance.
• Xia Ping and the monsters surprised the gate guards and knocked dozens of them unconscious.
• The sacred ground’s guards rang the alarm, alerting the Five Great Races to the invasion.
• The Five Great Races’ guards and elders hurried toward the sacred ground to reinforce its defenders.

Xia Ping and his companions entered the sacred land and found unripe Five Elements Spirit Fruits on five divine trees. Before they could decide what to do, ancient supreme elders attacked, and Xia Ping revealed that he had reached the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm.

• Xia Ping and the others entered the sacred land and discovered that five divine trees filled it with dense five-element energy.
• Rabbit Linglong spotted unripe Five Elements Spirit Fruits, and the group worried they might not be potent enough to help them reach the King Realm.
• Xia Ping considered using Life Fire to ripen the trees but kept the idea to himself.
• Seven or eight supreme elders emerged and threatened the intruders, prompting the Doom Crow to recognize how dangerous they were.
• A Black Wood Tribe great elder attacked, but Xia Ping struck it with Spiral Qi Energy and badly wounded it.
• The three elderly human Grandmasters realized Xia Ping had advanced from the sixth to the eighth level of the Grandmaster Realm.