Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping learned that his book had earned billions of Universal Coin and planned to use the repaired Star Ship to raid the Red Scarf Bandits in three months. Cat Immortal then told him about a powerful Sky Net System being offered at an auction on Bake Planet, which could conceal and defend Yunxiao Continent.

• Xia Ping and Cat Immortal discussed locating the Crystal Fragrant Rice source and raiding the Red Scarf Bandits' planet once the Star Ship was repaired in about three months.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping that Thirty-Six Stratagems of Deception had sold fifty million copies in just over ten days, earning him 3.5 billion Universal Coin.
• Cat Immortal said the book could sell another fifty million copies and confirmed that the first payment had already arrived in Xia Ping's account.
• Cat Immortal told Xia Ping about a top-tier auction on Bake Planet in the Blackwood Star Region.
• Cat Immortal described the Sky Net System, a vast surveillance and weapons network that could hide Yunxiao Continent, block signals, and destroy spacecraft.

Xia Ping learned that the Sky Net System was available for five billion Universal Coins and decided to borrow money to buy it for Yunxiao Continent’s protection. Meanwhile, the Red Scarf Bandits discovered that Hu Laosan’s ship and its Crystal Fragrant Rice cargo had vanished, leaving them scrambling to fulfill a deal with powerful families.

• Cat Immortal explained the Sky Net System’s history, its lowered auction price, and why few buyers wanted it.
• Xia Ping realized he was short of the five billion Universal Coins but could borrow up to ten billion from the Universal Bank.
• Xia Ping decided to head to Bake Planet and buy the Sky Net System to protect his family and stronghold.
• The Red Scarf Bandits’ leaders learned that Hu Laosan’s spacecraft had been destroyed and its cargo of Crystal Fragrant Rice was missing.
• The Red Scarf Bandits’ leader ordered his men to gather replacement Crystal Fragrant Rice so they could fulfill their deal with the ancient families.

The Red Scarf Bandits learned that Elder Yu Kou had taken a fleet to avenge his son on an indigenous continent, and expected him to destroy its natives. Several days later, Xia Ping arrived at Bake Planet to attend the Cosmic Sea Auction Company's grand auction.

• An elder told the Red Scarf Bandits' leader that Yu Bo and his soldiers had been killed on an indigenous continent and that Elder Yu Kou had gone there with over a thousand warships to seek revenge.
• The elder estimated that Elder Yu Kou would reach the continent in three months, and the Red Scarf Bandits' leader dismissed the danger to him.
• Xia Ping arrived at Bake Planet, a busy commercial hub, and asked Cat Immortal where the auction was being held.
• Xia Ping took a taxi to the Cosmic Sea Auction Company's building in Bake City.
• Cultivators gathered outside the building discussed the treasures they hoped to buy and worried that wealthy attendees would outbid them.

Xia Ping waited for the auction to begin, hoping to bid on the Sky Net System without trouble. As powerful sects, royals, and clans gathered, Qian Shan’s arrival showed how dangerous the auction’s attendees could be, and Xia Ping was stopped by security as he tried to enter.

• Xia Ping watched the crowd gather and resolved to prevent anyone from driving up the price of the Sky Net System.
• A Green Bull Sect elder arrived, followed by elders from other sects, the Norton Kingdom’s eldest prince, and Wang Gebi.
• Qian Shan arrived in a golden carriage pulled by nine flying dragons, whose landing injured several bystanders and cracked the ground.
• A bystander learned that the Qian Clan had wiped out a kingdom for insulting them and fell silent in fear.
• Qian Shan entered the Cosmic Sea Auction Company with his servants, and Xia Ping headed for the entrance.
• A security guard stopped Xia Ping as he reached the building.

Xia Ping was refused entry to the Cosmic Sea Auction Company because he lacked an invitation, but his Universal Bank VIP Card revealed his immense wealth and secured him immediate access. He entered with Manager Bai Bei, leaving the guard who had insulted him trembling with regret.

• A guard denied Xia Ping entry to the auction, and Xia Ping pointed out that Qian Shan and the others had entered without invitations.
• Xia Ping showed the guard his Universal Bank VIP Card, and Manager Bai Bei identified it as proof of at least two billion Universal Coins in assets.
• Manager Bai Bei apologized to Xia Ping and escorted him into the auction.
• The crowd marveled at Xia Ping's status and speculated that the guard would suffer for offending him.
• The guard trembled and regretted treating Xia Ping with contempt.

Xia Ping attended the Cosmic Sea Auction and learned that the Sky Net System was one of its main finale items. When the auction began, he won the first lot, Blood Sun Iron, by bidding one million Universal Coins.

• Manager Bai Bei told Xia Ping that the auction's three finale items were the Lightning Fist manual, a Sacred Artifact Fragment, and the Sky Net System.
• The auction began, and Director Tan Ming presented a piece of Blood Sun Iron as the first item.
• Xia Ping bid one million Universal Coins for the Blood Sun Iron, shocking the other bidders and Manager Bai Bei.
• The other attendees complained that Xia Ping had vastly overpaid, while Xia Ping said he was happy to spend freely on something he loved.

Xia Ping bought the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass for two million Universal Coins after taunting the other bidders. When a damaged black bead came up for auction, his Hell Golden Crow Eye sensed a trace of chaotic aura in it, and he decided to bid.

• Supervisor Tan Ming sold the Blood Sun Iron to Xia Ping for one million Universal Coins.
• Tan Ming presented the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and Xia Ping bid two million Universal Coins while insulting the other bidders.
• The crowd declined to challenge Xia Ping, and he won the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass for two million Universal Coins.
• Tan Ming introduced a damaged black bead whose artifact spirit had been destroyed, and the crowd doubted its value.
• Xia Ping's Hell Golden Crow Eye sensed a trace of chaotic aura from the bead, so he decided to pursue it.

Xia Ping used aggressive bidding to buy a damaged black bead and then outmaneuvered Baldy during the auction of a low-grade spirit artifact. Baldy was left unable to pay and faced three hundred years of unpaid work for the Cosmic Sea Auction Company.

• Xia Ping bid three million Universal Coins for the damaged black bead, and Manager Tan Ming sold it to him.
• Xia Ping declared that he would buy every auction item, prompting some attendees to plan to drive up the prices against him.
• Xia Ping and Baldy raised the Cold Nether Sword's price to ten million Universal Coins, where Xia Ping stopped bidding and let Baldy win.
• Baldy tried to return the sword, but Manager Tan Ming refused and offered to make him work without pay for three hundred years to repay the debt.
• Baldy accused Xia Ping of setting him up, and Xia Ping mocked him until Baldy vomited blood and fainted.

Xia Ping drove up prices throughout the auction, angering martial artists and powerful sects before bidding a billion Universal Coins on the Saint-level manual Lightning Fist. Qian Shan threatened him and sent someone to demand he withdraw his bid, leaving the auction tense.

• Xia Ping repeatedly raised auction prices and backed out before the reserve, leaving other bidders to pay far more than they had planned.
• Angry bidders and powerful VIPs blamed Xia Ping for their losses, while Xia Ping remained pleased at the Hate Points he expected to earn.
• Supervisor Tan Ming introduced the Saint-level manual Lightning Fist, and the major sects and clans prepared to compete for it.
• Qian Shan resolved to obtain Lightning Fist and warned that he would kill anyone who stood in his way.
• Xia Ping opened the bidding at a billion Universal Coins, provoking furious reactions from the sect elders.
• Qian Shan sent a messenger to demand that Xia Ping withdraw his bid and let the Qian Clan have the manual.

Xia Ping provoked Qian Shan into a fierce auction battle over the Lightning Fist manual, driving the price to 2.9 billion Universal Coins. He then unexpectedly conceded, leaving Qian Shan with the apparent victory and a grudge against him.

• Xia Ping insulted the Qian Clan servant and refused to withdraw his bid, so the servant returned to Qian Shan and reported the confrontation.
• Qian Shan smashed a table in anger, vowed Xia Ping would not leave Bake Planet, and decided to keep bidding to defend the Qian Clan’s reputation.
• Qian Shan entered the bidding at 1.5 billion Universal Coins and warned the other bidders not to compete against him.
• Xia Ping ignored Qian Shan’s threat and raised the price to 2 billion, prompting the other sects to withdraw.
• Xia Ping and Qian Shan traded bids until Qian Shan offered 2.9 billion Universal Coins, near his limit.
• Xia Ping stopped bidding and told Qian Shan that he had won.

Xia Ping made Qian Shan pay 2.9 billion Universal Coins for a Saint-level manual, then accidentally won the Sky Net System for five billion after no one joined his bid. Qian Shan ordered an investigation into Xia Ping, while Xia Ping was left unable to return his purchase.

• Xia Ping stopped bidding on Lightning Fist, leaving Qian Shan with the winning bid of 2.9 billion Universal Coins and humiliating him.
• Qian Shan vowed revenge and sent Qian Clan servants to investigate Xia Ping's identity and backing.
• Supervisor Tan Ming introduced the Sky Net System with a starting price of five billion Universal Coins, but the other bidders showed little interest.
• Xia Ping bid five billion Universal Coins, and Tan Ming quickly declared the Sky Net System sold to him.
• Xia Ping said he had bid out of habit and asked to return the system, but Tan Ming refused because all sales were final.
• Qian Shan realized Xia Ping might have been trying to trick him into bidding again and felt relieved that he had held back.

Xia Ping secretly celebrated winning the Sky Net System while the auction crowd mistook his purchase for a foolish loss. After collecting his items, he registered himself as the system’s highest-authorized user and left it on standby.

• The auction crowd rejoiced when Xia Ping stopped bidding, believing he had wasted five billion Universal Coins on the Sky Net System.
• Xia Ping watched the auction continue without bidding, while the sect elders looked forward to competing for a Sacred Artifact Fragment without him.
• Steward Bai Bei delivered Xia Ping’s auction winnings and explained that the Sky Net System contained 108,000 satellites powered by a sun.
• Xia Ping registered his blood with the system’s Smart Brain, becoming its highest-authorized user.
• Xia Ping declined to deploy the satellites and placed the Sky Net System on standby.

Xia Ping restored the mysterious black bead with his bloodline and discovered that it contained a vast, barren world. The bead’s spirit, a Green Ox named Mountain God, revealed that it was the damaged Mountain River Bead, once a sacred artifact, while he and Cat Immortal repeatedly fought.

• Xia Ping examined the black bead with his Hell Golden Crow Eye and found that its formations were broken.
• Xia Ping’s blood restored the bead’s formations, awakening a vast inner world that could support living beings.
• Mountain God appeared and identified himself as the spirit of the Mountain River Bead.
• Mountain God explained that the bead had once been the Mountain River Saint’s life-bound sacred artifact, with a world-sized space and powerful abilities.
• Cat Immortal mocked Mountain God, and the two spirits fought until Xia Ping separated them.

Xia Ping learned that the damaged Mountain River Bead could be restored with rare resources and that it contained the Saint-grade Azure Emperor Longevity Technique. With the World Tree and his Life Fire resonating with the technique, he triggered a cosmic phenomenon that Cat Immortal concealed, leaving Green Ox astonished by his treasures.

• Green Ox explained that the Mountain River Bead could regain its abilities with Sacred Artifact Fragments, space stones, and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, while Cat Immortal mocked its demands.
• Green Ox revealed the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique and warned that Xia Ping’s powerful flame sacred body might prevent him from cultivating it.
• Xia Ping asked Green Ox to teach him the technique, and Green Ox transmitted it into his mind.
• The World Tree resonated with the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique, helping Xia Ping grasp it and forming a wood-element domain around him.
• Xia Ping’s World Tree phantom and azure Life Fire produced a heavenly phenomenon, which Cat Immortal hid with the Moon Goddess’s defensive system.
• Green Ox recognized the World Tree and Life Fire within Xia Ping and marveled at his treasures.

Xia Ping cultivated the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique with the World Tree and Life Fire, forming the Azure Emperor Body and greatly strengthening his vitality and mana. Meanwhile, Qian Shan bought the Sacred Artifact Fragment and ordered his forces to hunt Xia Ping down.

• Green Ox marveled at Xia Ping’s World Tree and Life Fire, which let him cultivate the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique with extraordinary advantages.
• Xia Ping condensed Azure Emperor mana and reached the minor completion stage of the Azure Emperor Body, gaining greater longevity, recovery, plant control, and mana.
• The auction ended with Qian Shan buying the Sacred Artifact Fragment for two billion Universal Coins.
• Qian Shan learned that Xia Ping was staying at the port on Bake Planet, though his subordinates had not yet uncovered Xia Ping’s identity.
• Qian Shan struck a subordinate who urged caution and ordered his forces to prevent Xia Ping from escaping and kill him.

After stabilizing his Azure Emperor Body, Xia Ping learned that Qian Shan had won the Sacred Artifact Fragment and that the Qian Clan was behind a police operation targeting him. Xia Ping went with the officers to the police station, leaving onlookers fearing Qian Shan would kill him.

• Xia Ping finished consolidating his cultivation, and Cat Immortal told him Qian Shan had bought the Sacred Artifact Fragment for two billion Universal Coins.
• The system awarded Xia Ping 300 million Hate Points and warned that Qian Shan planned to retaliate and stop him from leaving Bake Planet.
• Cat Immortal showed Xia Ping that thousands of Bake Planet police officers had surrounded the Moon Goddess.
• A police captain accused Xia Ping of involvement in smuggling and ordered him to come to the station; Xia Ping agreed but demanded an explanation if they found nothing.
• Xia Ping boarded a police vehicle and left under escort as bystanders suspected Qian Shan had arranged the arrest.

Xia Ping was taken to an abandoned warehouse, where Qian Shan gathered powerful guards to kill and torture him. Xia Ping unleashed the Dragon-Trapping Stake, trapping everyone in its domain and suppressing their cultivation to the Divine Ability Realm.

• A police captain drove Xia Ping to an abandoned warehouse in the outskirts instead of a police station.
• Qian Shan arrived with two or three Treasure Refining Realm cultivators and dozens of Divine Ability Realm guards, then threatened Xia Ping despite his warnings about the Qian Clan's future.
• Qian Shan ordered Feng San to break Xia Ping's limbs and keep him alive for torture.
• Xia Ping deployed the Dragon-Trapping Stake, enclosing everyone in an energy barrier that suppressed the Treasure Refining Realm cultivators to the Divine Ability Realm.

Xia Ping used the Dragon-Trapping Stake to suppress the Qian Clan pursuers’ cultivation, then revealed the Hell Golden Crow’s crushing pressure and overwhelming power. After he nearly burned Feng San to death with one punch, Xia Ping faced threats against his family and prepared to strike the remaining enemies.

• Qian Shan recognized the Dragon-Trapping Stake as a supreme-grade treasure artifact and dismissed Xia Ping’s chances of escaping.
• Xia Ping unleashed the Hell Golden Crow’s pressure, forcing Qian Shan to his knees and shattering his bones.
• Feng San attacked Xia Ping with Thousandfold Blade, but Xia Ping destroyed the blade-energy net with one punch and set Feng San ablaze.
• The other Treasure Refining Realm cultivators threatened to kill Xia Ping’s family and friends.
• Xia Ping’s killing intent surged as he circulated the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique and summoned the World Tree phantom.

Xia Ping slaughtered Qian Shan’s Treasure Refining Realm bodyguards and subordinates, leaving Qian Shan trapped behind a protective talisman. As Xia Ping prepared to kill him, a powerful attacker arrived and shattered the Dragon-Trapping Stake’s domain.

• Two Treasure Refining Realm cultivators attacked Xia Ping, but he used his Azure Emperor Body to overpower them and killed them with the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique.
• Qian Shan ordered his hundred-plus subordinates to attack Xia Ping, who summoned meteors with the Star-Drawing Technique and wiped them out.
• A protective talisman left by Qian Ba shielded Qian Shan from the meteors, and Xia Ping advanced on him as the talisman’s energy began to run down.
• A furious roar and powerful force struck from afar, cracking the Dragon-Trapping Stake; Xia Ping retrieved it, ending the Equality Domain.

The sect elders on Bake Planet learned that Qian Ba had confronted Xia Ping and assumed the black-card youth was doomed. Qian Ba arrived with Qian Clan elders and accused Xia Ping of attacking his clan, while Xia Ping defended his actions and Qian Shan falsely accused him of theft.

• The elders of several sects heard Qian Ba's shout, investigated the clash, and concluded that Xia Ping would likely die at Qian Ba's hands.
• Qian Ba and several Qian Clan elders arrived after the Dragon-Trapping Stake's Equality Domain shattered and the warehouse was destroyed.
• Qian Ba threatened Xia Ping and tried to crush him with his divine consciousness, but the World Tree protected Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping said Qian Shan had ambushed him and that he had killed the Qian Clan guards in self-defense.
• Qian Shan told Qian Ba that Xia Ping had stolen Qian Clan treasures and attacked them while trying to escape.