Chapter Summaries

After killing Li Hu with the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Hand, Xia Ping faced a coordinated assault from the other top-ranked new disciples. He unleashed the Lion Vajra Seal and struck them with his spiritual power before they could reach him.

• Xia Ping killed Li Hu with the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Hand, leaving the Universe Sect elders impressed by its binding force.
• Tang Mingchen and the others stopped underestimating Xia Ping and charged him together.
• Kuer attacked with the Nine Palaces Sword Technique, Batu swung his Blood-Dissolving Saber, and Chen Fanghua unleashed the Startling Dragon Whip.
• Xia Ping formed the Lion Vajra Seal and sent a surge of spiritual power into the attackers, severely injuring them from more than ten meters away.

Xia Ping used a mental attack to freeze Kuer and five others, then killed them with one strike, stunning the spectators and earning the elders’ praise. As he landed, Tang Mingchen and Pan Da ambushed him, binding his body and leaving him vulnerable to Tang Mingchen’s dagger.

• Xia Ping overwhelmed Kuer and five others with a mental assault and crushed them with the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Hand.
• Kuer and the others were expelled from the Virtual World, while spectators struggled to understand how Xia Ping had defeated them so quickly.
• Senior brothers and sisters and the elders recognized Xia Ping’s powerful mental strength and secret art, and praised his potential.
• Tang Mingchen attacked Xia Ping from behind with a dagger as Pan Da used the Shadow Binding Technique to restrain him.

Xia Ping defeated Pan Da and Tang Mingchen after their traps and attacks failed against his defenses. With the other fighters eliminated, Lv Wenhou remained as the group’s last hope against him.

• Tang Mingchen and Pan Da trapped Xia Ping with the Shadow Binding Technique, and Tang Mingchen attacked him with a dagger.
• Xia Ping’s Northern Underworld Body Protection Art stopped Tang Mingchen’s strike and trapped both attackers nearby.
• Xia Ping struck Pan Da and Tang Mingchen with a giant mana palm, eliminating them from the Virtual Battlefield.
• Kuer, Pan Da, Tang Mingchen, and the others realized Xia Ping had defeated their group, but Tang Mingchen said Lv Wenhou had not yet fought.
• The group looked to Lv Wenhou and his Heaven-Opening Halberd as their remaining chance to defeat Xia Ping.

In the Virtual Battlefield, Xia Ping and Lv Wenhou fought a fierce duel, with both displaying power that stunned the spectators. Lv Wenhou then revealed the legendary Ghost-God Body, making Xia Ping realize his opponent had become far more dangerous.

• Lv Wenhou dismissed his eliminated teammates and challenged Xia Ping with the Heavenly Halberd.
• Lv Wenhou attacked with the Lv Family’s Heaven-Opening Halberd, and Xia Ping countered with the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Hand.
• Xia Ping and Lv Wenhou exchanged hundreds of powerful blows, devastating the battlefield and astonishing the spectators.
• After they separated, Lv Wenhou transformed into the Ghost-God Body, and the elders recognized his legendary form.

Lv Wenhou revealed his Ghost-God Body and overwhelmed Xia Ping with his speed, strength, and halberd techniques. After Lv Wenhou’s crushing blow sent Xia Ping skidding across the battlefield and left him badly wounded, the onlookers believed the fight was over.

• The onlookers learned that Lv Wenhou had developed the rare Ghost-God Body, and the Cat Immortal explained that other techniques could cultivate powerful physiques such as the Star Body.
• Lv Wenhou charged at Xia Ping with the Heavenly Halberd and battered him with a rapid series of attacks that penetrated his defenses.
• Lv Wenhou used Heaven-Opening Halberd, Overlord Descends, and struck Xia Ping with a powerful attack that sent him more than ten kilometers across the ground.
• The spectators saw Xia Ping badly wounded and concluded that Lv Wenhou would soon finish him off.

Xia Ping awakened his Hell Golden Crow Body after the Ghost-God aura from Lv Wenhou threatened him. The two resumed their fight, and Xia Ping melted Lv Wenhou’s Heavenly Halberd with one hand.

• Lv Wenhou sensed danger from Xia Ping and retreated several kilometers.
• Xia Ping’s Hell Golden Crow Cells awakened, and he formed his minor-mastery Hell Golden Crow Body.
• The onlookers and Universe Sect elders were stunned by Xia Ping’s powerful new constitution.
• Lv Wenhou welcomed Xia Ping’s newfound power and charged at him with his Heavenly Halberd.
• Xia Ping caught the Heavenly Halberd and melted it into molten iron.

Xia Ping defeated Lv Wenhou with a single fiery punch, winning his one-against-ten match and silencing doubts about his strength. The new disciples left determined to train and challenge him again, while the Universe Sect’s senior disciples began to see him as a rising threat.

• Xia Ping punched through Lv Wenhou’s Ghost-God Body and burned him to ashes in the Virtual Battlefield.
• Lv Wenhou returned to his body in shock but vowed to defeat Xia Ping next time.
• The Virtual World announced Xia Ping’s victory over all ten opponents, stunning the watching Universe Sect disciples.
• The disciples acknowledged Xia Ping’s strength, and senior brothers and sisters worried that he would soon threaten them.
• Kuer and the other defeated newcomers resolved to train harder and challenge Xia Ping again.

Xia Ping used over a thousand Yin-Yang Pills to break through to the As-You-Will Realm and awaken divine sense, greatly strengthening his control over magical power. After mastering his new abilities, he discovered that another thousand Hell Golden Crow Cells had been unsealed.

• Xia Ping consumed Yin-Yang Pills and cultivated until he broke through to the As-You-Will Realm.
• Xia Ping awakened divine sense, sensed all of Yanhuang Peak, and found that it could lift and launch weapons.
• Xia Ping spent several days mastering divine sense and shaping magical power into birds, beasts, and weapons.
• Xia Ping discovered that a thousand Hell Golden Crow Cells had unsealed, further strengthening his bloodline and body.

Xia Ping learned about a Death-Level mission to retrieve a Soul Stone from Blood Soul Continent, where the Soul Clan’s deadly mental attacks made survival almost impossible. He considered the mission’s enormous reward of one hundred thousand Yin-Yang Pills as he learned why the continent remained beyond the reach of outsiders.

• Xia Ping ate a vast meal of medicinal cuisine and asked the Cat Immortal about the Star Ship’s repairs.
• The Cat Immortal advised Xia Ping to take missions to earn Yin-Yang Pills and showed him a Death-Level mission offering one hundred thousand pills for retrieving a Soul Stone.
• The Cat Immortal explained that Blood Soul Continent was a three-light-year landmass created by Blood Soul Saint and rich in Soul Stones.
• The Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that the continent remained inhabited by over a trillion people because the Soul Clan, descendants of Blood Soul Saint, could kill intruders with powerful mental attacks.

Xia Ping learned about the dangers and mysteries surrounding Blood Soul Continent, then accepted a death-level mission to travel there. North Nether Saint contacted him and revealed that he had already planned to send Xia Ping there for training.

• Xia Ping questioned whether Blood Soul Continent could truly withstand the universe’s powerful forces, and Cat Immortal explained its restrictions and the mystery surrounding Blood Soul Saint.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that his strong spiritual power would help him survive the continent and that he could gain Soul Stones and spiritual arts there.
• Xia Ping accepted the death-level mission to travel to Blood Soul Continent despite the system warning him of its over ninety percent mortality rate.
• North Nether Saint contacted Xia Ping after learning of the mission and said he had planned to send Xia Ping to Blood Soul Continent for training.

North Nether Saint gave Xia Ping a talisman capable of unleashing a Saint's strike before Xia Ping traveled to Blood Soul Continent for his mission. Xia Ping entered the dangerous continent in a small spacecraft, while an observer in orbit secretly contacted someone outside.

• North Nether Saint warned Xia Ping that hidden enemies might target him and gave him a one-use talisman that could deliver a Saint's strike.
• Xia Ping prepared supplies and weapons, then traveled aboard a Universe Sect spacecraft toward Blood Soul Continent.
• A crew member explained that the continent's atmosphere trapped its inhabitants, limited cultivators to the Divine Ability Realm, and was monitored by fleets of warships.
• Xia Ping transferred to a small spacecraft, used optical camouflage, and entered Blood Soul Continent.
• The warship crews recognized Xia Ping as North Nether Saint's disciple, and one observer secretly contacted someone outside.

Mad Slaughter Saint forced the Seven Killers to assassinate Xia Ping, North Nether Saint’s disciple, to avenge the arm North Nether had severed. He sent them to Blood Soul Continent, where Xia Ping was on a mission.

• Mad Slaughter Saint summoned the Seven Killers to his palace and ordered them to kill someone.
• He named Xia Ping as the target because North Nether Saint had crippled him by cutting off his right arm.
• Mad Slaughter Saint revealed that he had placed a restriction on each assassin that would detonate if they fled or failed the mission.
• The Seven Killers asked where Xia Ping was, and Mad Slaughter Saint told them he was on Blood Soul Continent.

Xia Ping’s disguised spaceship lost control as it entered Blood Soul Continent’s atmosphere and crashed into a forest clearing. The impact interrupted Bao Mingyuan and his men as they tried to capture the wounded Liu Rulan, leaving the crash’s occupant and the survivors’ fates unknown.

• Xia Ping’s spaceship entered Blood Soul Continent’s atmosphere, lost control under the immense pressure, and plunged toward the ground.
• Bao Mingyuan and his Soul Clan men cornered the injured Liu Rulan and prepared to take her back to Huaining City for the branch hall master.
• Liu Rulan drew a dagger and tried to kill herself rather than be captured.
• Xia Ping’s spaceship crashed nearby, blasting Bao Mingyuan and his men away while Liu Rulan held onto a boulder to withstand the shock wave.

Xia Ping arrived on the Blood Soul Continent and encountered Bao Mingyuan and his companions, who recognized him as an Evil Demon from beyond the domain and attacked him for the reward. Their powerful mental assault left him completely unharmed.

• Bao Mingyuan and the others discovered a metal sphere in a crater and realized it was a spaceship carrying an Evil Demon from beyond the domain.
• Xia Ping emerged from the spaceship, stored it in his Space Ring, and recognized the nearby figures as hostile natives of the Blood Soul Continent.
• Bao Mingyuan and his companions chose to attack Xia Ping, hoping to kill him and earn a great reward from Soul Hall.
• Bao Mingyuan and the others unleashed a combined Mental Shockwave against Xia Ping, but he remained unharmed.

Xia Ping endured Bao Mingyuan and the others’ mental attacks, then shattered their illusion with the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds and killed the fleeing experts. He left Liu Rulan behind as the only witness to his overwhelming strength.

• Bao Mingyuan and the other experts were shocked that their first mental attack had left Xia Ping unharmed.
• Bao Mingyuan and the others launched their Blazing Flames Incinerate Heaven mental secret art, trapping Xia Ping in a burning illusion.
• Xia Ping broke the illusion with the Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, injuring the attackers and killing several with the backlash and sound waves.
• Bao Mingyuan and the surviving experts fled to report Xia Ping’s arrival, abandoning Liu Rulan.
• Xia Ping flicked his finger and sent streams of flame force after them, burning the fleeing experts to ash.

Xia Ping defeated the Soul Clan pursuers and took Liu Rulan as his slave instead of killing her. Liu Rulan revealed that the Soul Hall of Huaining City hunted her because the Liu Family had discovered a Soul Stone mine.

• Xia Ping killed seven or eight Soul Clan experts and absorbed their soul energy, strengthening his divine consciousness.
• Liu Rulan tried to flee, but Xia Ping stopped her and ordered her to become his slave.
• Liu Rulan submitted to Xia Ping so she could stay alive and seek revenge for her family.
• Xia Ping asked who had pursued her, and Liu Rulan identified them as members of the Soul Hall of Huaining City.
• Liu Rulan explained that the Soul Hall targeted her family after they discovered a Soul Stone mine.

Xia Ping learned that Liu Rulan could lead him to a hidden Soul Stone mine and set out with her after giving her repair fluid for her injuries. As she asked him for clothes, Xia Ping called her his slave and moved closer, leaving Liu Rulan fearing he was about to assault her.

• Xia Ping asked Liu Rulan where the Soul Stone mine was, and she decided to use him to take revenge on the Soul Hall of Huaining City.
• Liu Rulan revealed that the mine lay in a hidden valley a hundred thousand li away and said she could guide him there.
• Xia Ping agreed to travel with Liu Rulan on foot rather than risk attracting attention with his spaceship.
• Liu Rulan said her injuries kept her from walking, so Xia Ping gave her repair fluid that quickly restored much of her strength.
• Liu Rulan asked Xia Ping to find her clothes, but he said she looked best without any and called her his slave.
• Xia Ping stepped closer to Liu Rulan, who feared he was about to violate her.

Xia Ping asked Liu Rulan to teach him spiritual secret arts, but she explained that Soul Hall restrictions made them impossible to reveal. He learned that the Soul Hall’s most advanced arts were kept at its heavily guarded Main Headquarters, a place protected by Divine Ability Realm experts.

• Xia Ping gave Liu Rulan a qipao, and she reluctantly wore it after rejecting his suggestion that she wear nothing but rope.
• Xia Ping asked Liu Rulan to teach him spiritual secret arts, but she said the Soul Hall’s mental restrictions prevented anyone from passing them on.
• Liu Rulan warned Xia Ping that Soul Hall branches were heavily guarded and that its Main Headquarters was even more dangerous.
• Xia Ping considered the power of Divine Ability Realm cultivators after learning that many guarded the Main Headquarters.

Liu Rulan explained the Soul Hall’s vast reach and the three kinds of spiritual secret arts, including a legendary art said to control even Saints. After learning of the Blood Soul Saint’s mysterious fate and the powerful forces watching Blood Soul Continent, Xia Ping realized the continent concealed far more than he had expected.

• Xia Ping asked whether he could infiltrate the Soul Hall, and Liu Rulan explained that ancient teleportation arrays let its branches reinforce one another instantly.
• Liu Rulan described offensive, illusion-type, and control-type spiritual secret arts, saying the rarest could enslave living beings and kill them if their master died.
• Cat Immortal said the Blood Soul Saint had enslaved Saints before powerful beings fought him, and warned Xia Ping that the truth of the battle was a taboo.
• Xia Ping suspected that Saints monitoring Blood Soul Continent sought the Blood Soul Saint’s control art, and wondered whether the Saint had truly died.

Xia Ping disguised himself to travel with Liu Rulan, then slaughtered a pack of Unicorn Steel Tigers and gathered beasts for food. Days later, the pair continued toward the Soul Stone mine, and Cat Immortal alerted Xia Ping to a precious spiritual herb in a nearby valley.

• Liu Rulan warned Xia Ping that the Soul Clan could recognize him, so he put on a disguise mask and changed his appearance.
• A pack of Unicorn Steel Tigers ambushed Xia Ping and Liu Rulan in the forest, but Xia Ping killed them with the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon and stored their bodies as food.
• Several days later, Xia Ping and Liu Rulan traveled toward the Soul Stone mine while Xia Ping killed the ferocious beasts they encountered.
• Liu Rulan recovered while eating beast meat, and Xia Ping noticed that his vitality and mana had increased.
• Cat Immortal sensed a precious spiritual herb in a valley ahead and urged Xia Ping to gather it.