Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Black Tiger Gang’s leader and slaughtering the gangs that pursued him, Xia Ping arrived at Black Tiger Mountain with his companions and a group of children. The Black Tiger Gang formed its defensive array to confront him, but the reason for his assault remained unclear.

• Black Tiger Gang members recounted how Xia Ping had killed hundreds of their men and slaughtered tens of thousands of pursuers, while some accused him of hiding his identity.
• Nine alarm bells rang across Black Tiger Mountain, signaling an attack that threatened the gang’s survival.
• The Black Tiger Gang members learned that Wu Wudi had arrived and called for their deputy leader and elders, since their leader could not log in for months.
• Xia Ping kicked through the hall doors and entered Black Tiger Mountain with Jiang Yaru, Su Ji, Yu Qiqi, Chu Rong, Ye Jiajia, and other children.
• The Black Tiger Gang members formed the Black Tiger Yin Evil Array and demanded to know why Xia Ping had come.

Xia Ping attacked Black Tiger Mountain to destroy the Black Tiger Gang and slaughtered its members with overwhelming force. After killing the gang’s deputy leader and defeating its elders, he left only a handful of survivors, who feared the gang was finished.

• Xia Ping announced that he had come to flatten the Black Tiger Gang, whose members formed the Black Tiger Yin Evil Array and attacked him.
• Xia Ping destroyed the array with Sun Essence flames and burned hundreds of Black Tiger Gang members to death.
• The Black Tiger Gang’s deputy leader attacked Xia Ping with a massive axe, but Xia Ping killed him with one punch.
• Xia Ping fought the gang’s elders and other members with punches, slaps, and kicks, killing and injuring them in droves.
• The Black Tiger Gang’s forces in the hall were nearly wiped out, and the surviving members despaired over their leader’s absence and the gang’s imminent destruction.

Xia Ping and his companions stripped Black Tiger Mountain's Herb Garden and treasure vault bare, then left while the Black Tiger Gang could only watch. After learning of the raid, Lu Hu vowed revenge against Wu Wudi.

• Xia Ping and the children pulled up every plant in Black Tiger Mountain's Herb Garden, leaving it barren.
• The Black Tiger Gang members feared stopping them after Xia Ping had killed the gang's top figures.
• Xia Ping and his companions emptied the treasure vault, taking everything they found.
• Xia Ping thanked the Black Tiger Gang and said he would return if he got the chance, then left with his companions.
• Lu Hu learned that Xia Ping had raided Black Tiger Mountain and vowed to make him pay.

Xia Ping arrived at Wolf Fang Mountain disguised as a food deliveryman and demanded that the Wolf Fang Gang hand over every treasure. Gang Leader Gu Yong and the gang members rejected his demand and prepared to fight.

• Wolf Fang Gang members discussed Xia Ping's destruction of the Black Tiger Gang and insisted he would never dare attack their mountain.
• Xia Ping entered the Wolf Fang Gang hall after a black-clad member opened the door to the supposed food delivery.
• The gang members recognized Xia Ping and sounded the alarm, bringing Gang Leader Gu Yong and the other fighters out of the main hall.
• Gu Yong challenged Xia Ping and claimed the Wolf Fang Gang's numbers would overwhelm him.
• Xia Ping said he had come to seek justice and demanded every treasure on Wolf Fang Mountain.
• Wolf Fang Gang members refused to surrender their treasures and declared they were ready to fight.

Xia Ping defeated the Wolf Fang Gang by breaking its battle formation and killing Gu Yong, then took the gang’s treasures and spirit herbs. The surviving gang members swore to avenge themselves as Xia Ping left with Ye Jiajia and the children.

• Gu Yong ordered the Wolf Fang Gang to form its Wolf Fang Army-Breaking Formation and unleashed a horde of mana wolves against Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used Kunpeng Step to evade the wolves and charge toward Gu Yong at the formation’s center.
• Xia Ping killed Gu Yong with one punch, causing the formation to collapse and injure or kill many Wolf Fang Gang members.
• Xia Ping sent Ye Jiajia and the other children to loot the treasure vault and Herb Garden, and they took everything.
• Xia Ping left Wolf Fang Mountain with the children while the surviving Wolf Fang Gang members vowed to take revenge.

Xia Ping attacked the Big Bear Gang and defeated its members, then took all its treasures. The gang realized the nearby Mad Lion Gang was likely next, but it was too late to warn them.

• Big Bear Gang members and leader Yu Tao discussed Wu Wudi's attacks on other gangs and feared he would come for them.
• Members announced that Wu Wudi had arrived, and Xia Ping burst into the gang's headquarters with Ye Jiajia and the others.
• The Big Bear Gang members attacked Xia Ping, but he defeated them all within half an hour, taking out Yu Tao early in the battle.
• Xia Ping and his companions carried off the Big Bear Gang's treasures, leaving the surviving members cursing him.
• An elder urged the gang to warn other gangs to flee, but a member said the nearby Mad Lion Gang was already too close to escape.

Xia Ping and his companions destroyed the Mad Lion Gang and then accepted the Giant Elephant Gang’s surrender, taking all its treasures. News of their campaign spread after they subdued more than a hundred major gangs across the region.

• The Mad Lion Gang members tried to flee after learning that Xia Ping had destroyed the Big Bear Gang, but Xia Ping arrived and reduced their gang to ruins.
• Xia Ping and his companions reached the Giant Elephant Gang, where Zhang Hao and the other leaders stood outside with a white flag and offered to surrender.
• Ye Jiajia and the children complained that the Giant Elephant Gang had surrendered without a fight, frightening its members further.
• Xia Ping accepted the surrender and ordered Zhang Hao and his gang to bring out every treasure they owned.
• The Giant Elephant Gang delivered its treasures, and Xia Ping stored them before leaving with his companions.
• News spread that Xia Ping and his group had subdued more than a hundred major gangs in over ten days.

People across the Five Great Star Regions discussed Wu Wudi after learning he had seized the Li Fire Forging Technique and defeated more than a hundred gangs. Rumors spread that he possessed the legendary Azure Emperor Body, while people in Far East City continued to curse him as a shameless swindler.

• People near Far East City discussed Wu Wudi’s role in obtaining the Li Fire Forging Technique, and witnesses claimed he had defeated a hundred thousand opponents through strength alone.
• Witnesses described Wu Wudi destroying over a hundred gangs, killing their leaders, and taking their accumulated treasures.
• The crowd repeated rumors that Wu Wudi had the Azure Emperor Body, an exceptionally powerful constitution with immense magical power and recovery.
• People in Far East City concluded that Wu Wudi was a descendant of an ancient family who swindled others as a hobby, and they cursed him.

After Xia Ping and the children ransacked 108 gangs, they met in Far East City to divide the enormous haul. The children logged off with their shares, unaware that their furious families were waiting to confront them.

• The elders of the great families learned that Ye Jiajia and the other children had joined Xia Ping in robbing gangs, and they blamed him for leading their descendants astray.
• Representatives reported that gang members were demanding compensation from the families, while intelligence revealed that the children had eagerly helped seize treasure and earned the nickname Little Devils.
• Xia Ping tallied the stolen goods at a value of at least ten billion Universal Coins and gave each of the thirty children ten million.
• Xia Ping gave Yu Qiqi, Su Ji, Chu Rong, and Jiang Yaru fifty million Universal Coins each, then repaid the money he had borrowed from the children.
• Ye Jiajia and the others said goodbye to Xia Ping and logged off, only for their family elders and parents to appear and confront them.

After Wu Wudi’s influence on their children enraged the elders of several great families, they began searching for him, while Ye Mengyao also vowed to capture him. Xia Ping returned to the real world, advanced his cultivation, and received 1.3 billion Hate Points from the system.

• The elders complained that their children had adopted Wu Wudi’s rebellious sayings and vowed to find him by tracking the rare Azure Emperor Body.
• Ye Jiajia refused Ye Mengyao’s warning to stay away from Wu Wudi, and the sisters argued for the first time.
• Ye Mengyao reasoned that Wu Wudi might have sealed his cultivation to enter the Novice Village and vowed to capture and interrogate him.
• Xia Ping refined spirit medicine in his villa on Giant Island and advanced to the peak of the early Treasure Refining Realm.
• The system told Xia Ping he had gained 1.3 billion Hate Points, bringing his total to 3.8 billion.

Xia Ping studied the Li Fire Forging Technique and learned that artifact refining required strange flames and deep knowledge of formations. He used two billion Hate Points to master all 108,000 basic formations, becoming a formation master but not a grandmaster.

• Xia Ping examined the Li Fire Forging Technique and saw how its creator used a strange flame to melt materials and inscribe formations onto artifacts.
• Xia Ping learned that the technique required both a strange flame and mastery of 108,000 basic formations, knowledge that would take ordinary cultivators millennia to acquire.
• Xia Ping asked the system for the cost of mastering the formations and exchanged two billion Hate Points.
• After an infusion lasting three days and three nights, Xia Ping mastered all 108,000 basic formations and became a formation master.
• Xia Ping understood that formations drew on patterns and forces found naturally in heaven and earth, while formation grandmasters could reshape them.

Xia Ping used the Li Fire Forging Technique to set up the Eight Extremes Spirit-Gathering Array across Giant Island. The array transformed the island into a cultivation paradise, and the chapter ended with Xia Ping explaining that it was one of the finest Spirit-Gathering Arrays.

• Xia Ping surveyed Giant Island and located the eight energy-vein nodes needed for an array.
• Xia Ping engraved runes on top-grade jade and buried the pieces at the island's eight nodes.
• Xia Ping activated the Eight Extremes Spirit-Gathering Array, drawing spiritual energy from across a five-thousand-kilometer radius into Giant Island.
• The island's martial artists collected Spirit Liquid as it rained from the sky, while plants and animals rapidly grew and changed.
• Xia Ping told Chu Rong, Jiang Yaru, Su Ji, and Yu Qiqi that his formation was the Eight Extremes Spirit-Gathering Array, one of the finest Spirit-Gathering Arrays.

Xia Ping mastered formations after setting up more than a thousand across the Cloud Sky Realm, then decided to travel into the universe to find materials for his natal magic treasure. Feng Hetang asked to accompany him, and Xia Ping agreed to leave with him in three days.

• Xia Ping worked with the World Government to establish formations across the Cloud Sky Realm, adapting each array to the local spirit veins and terrain.
• Over a month, Xia Ping built more than a thousand formations, strengthening human cities and frightening demons and Sea Demons.
• Xia Ping mastered formations and resolved to seek rare cosmic materials to forge a growing natal magic treasure.
• Feng Hetang called Xia Ping and asked to join his journey into the universe.
• Xia Ping agreed to take Feng Hetang with him and told him to pack for their departure in three days.

Xia Ping brought his companions to Crystal Star, a lawless planet ruled by the Red Scarf Bandits, hoping to obtain Crystal Fragrant Rice and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. Cat Immortal identified the seemingly busy planet as a haven for criminals and a hub for trading resources.

• Xia Ping told Jiang Yaru and the others that he planned to visit a Red Scarf Bandit den before returning to the Universe Sect.
• Xia Ping’s Star Ship made a spatial jump into an uncharted region beyond the Six Great Star Domains.
• Xia Ping spotted a crystalline planet surrounded by spacecraft and questioned whether it could really be a secret base.
• Cat Immortal scanned the region and identified the planet as Crystal Star, a lawless zone ruled by the Red Scarf Bandits.
• Cat Immortal explained that criminals and traders gathered on lawless planets beyond the reach of established powers.

Xia Ping and his companions disguised themselves as criminals and landed on Crystal Star to investigate whether it held Crystal Fragrant Rice and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil. After law enforcement officers tried to charge them an inflated entry tax, Young Master Xu intervened, punished the extortionist, and welcomed them to the planet.

• Cat Immortal speculated that Crystal Star might conceal Crystal Fragrant Rice and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil despite its lawless reputation.
• Xia Ping disguised his group and their Star Ship as criminals before landing at Crystal Star's spaceport.
• Law enforcement officers demanded an entry tax of one thousand Universal Coins per person, and Feng Hetang objected that the usual fee was only one hundred.
• Young Master Xu confronted the officers and ordered the extortionist to cut off his own arm as punishment.
• Young Master Xu apologized to Xia Ping for the officers' conduct and welcomed the group to Crystal Star.

Xia Ping refused Xu Liangyin’s increasingly extravagant offers to buy Jiang Yaru and the other women, then left with them for Crystal City. Xu Liangyin revealed that he wanted the women as cultivation cauldrons and ordered his men to track and capture them.

• Xu Liangyin introduced himself as a manager of Lawless Planet and offered Xia Ping up to five hundred million Universal Coins for Jiang Yaru and the other women.
• Xia Ping refused to sell them and left with them for Crystal City after warning Xu Liangyin to control his attendant.
• Xu Liangyin told his attendants that the women had unusual physiques and were needed for his Infinite Cauldron Furnace Art.
• Xu Liangyin ordered his men to track Xia Ping’s group, kill them if possible, and keep the four women unharmed.

Xia Ping and his companions arrived in Crystal City to seek information about Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice. He deliberately asked about the Red Scarf Bandits’ secret in public to draw out someone with knowledge, and Chu Feng, the owner of Auspicious Cloud Tower, confronted him.

• Jiang Yaru, Su Ji, Chu Rong, Yu Qiqi, and Feng Hetang warned that Xu Yinliang might seek revenge, while Xia Ping said he would kill him if he returned.
• Xia Ping decided to gather information at Auspicious Cloud Tower after the Cat Immortal identified it as Crystal City’s largest intelligence organization.
• At Auspicious Cloud Tower, Xia Ping openly asked whether anyone knew where to find Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice, intending to lure out the Red Scarf Bandits or their informants.
• The suited elderly man brought Xia Ping and his group to the top floor, where Chu Feng, the tower’s owner, asked about their interest in the two items.

Xia Ping offered Chu Feng Dragon Blood in exchange for intelligence, but Chu Feng tried to frame him and seize the treasure. Xia Ping killed Chu Feng inside Auspicious Cloud Tower, leaving the conflict with its remaining members unresolved.

• Xia Ping offered Chu Feng a bottle of Dragon Blood as payment for information, and Chu Feng confirmed it was genuine.
• Chu Feng claimed the Dragon Blood had been stolen from Auspicious Cloud Tower and ordered his guards to seize Xia Ping and his companions.
• Xia Ping stabbed Chu Feng through the chest with the Spear of Hell before he could finish his order.
• Xia Ping unleashed the spear's mana, exploding Chu Feng into blood mist and reclaiming the Dragon Blood.

Xia Ping killed Chu Feng and two Auspicious Cloud Tower elders, then shattered the tower’s Eight Gates Cloud Mist Formation with his Spear of Hell. He left the tower’s remaining forces devastated, with only a handful of cultivators surviving the backlash.

• Xia Ping killed Chu Feng with a single thrust of the Spear of Hell inside Auspicious Cloud Tower.
• Two early-stage Treasure Refining Realm elders attacked Xia Ping, and he pierced both of them through and killed them.
• Auspicious Cloud Tower’s guards activated the Eight Gates Cloud Mist Formation and trapped Xia Ping in its spreading fog.
• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon to pierce and shatter the formation.
• The formation backlash killed the presiding elder and most of the cultivators powering it, leaving only a handful of survivors.

Xia Ping destroyed Auspicious Cloud Tower, killing its owner and several elders, and claimed its treasures with Jiang Yaru and the others. Yan Yong, a Crystal City steward, arrived and attacked Xia Ping after declaring his actions a capital crime.

• Xia Ping’s spear shattered Auspicious Cloud Tower’s formation, leaving the tower in ruins and its people dead or wounded.
• Jiang Yaru, Su Ji, and the others found and claimed more than a hundred treasure chests from the ruins.
• Yan Yong arrived and accused Xia Ping of violating Crystal City’s rules.
• Xia Ping said Auspicious Cloud Tower had tried to rob him during a trade.
• Yan Yong drew his golden greatsaber and launched a killing strike at Xia Ping.