Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping overwhelmed Yan Yong with his Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon and confronted the Nine Great Stewards after they surrounded him. He demanded an apology and compensation, then prepared to fight them as Wu Taidou.

• Xia Ping blasted Yan Yong through several skyscrapers with his spear, leaving Yan Yong injured and stunned.
• Xia Ping taunted Yan Yong and charged to kill him, prompting Yan Yong to call for help.
• The Nine Great Stewards of Crystal City arrived and surrounded Xia Ping, including Xu Liangyin, who recognized him from the harbor.
• Xia Ping demanded that the stewards kneel and compensate him, while they angrily rejected his demands.
• Xia Ping identified himself as Wu Taidou and threatened to beat several stewards to death.

The nine chief stewards recognized Xia Ping as a dangerous opponent and activated Crystal City's Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array to kill him. Xia Ping examined the formation and realized the entire city had been refined into a single magical treasure, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Yan Yong warned the other chief stewards that Xia Ping's strength made him dangerous, but they decided to fight together to protect Crystal City.
• Xu Liangyin proposed activating the Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array, and the other chief stewards agreed.
• The nine chief stewards activated the citywide array, summoning Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise phantoms that immobilized people throughout Crystal City.
• Xia Ping sensed that the formation covered the city and discovered that its buildings and underground array foundations had been combined into a single magical treasure.

Xia Ping confronted the nine chief stewards after they activated the Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array, then overwhelmed the white-robed steward despite the array’s power. He killed the steward with a lightning-infused punch, leaving the remaining stewards and Crystal City’s soldiers stunned.

• Crystal City’s soldiers assumed the array had doomed Xia Ping and threatened Ya Ru and the others.
• The white-robed chief steward demanded that Xia Ping surrender, but Xia Ping used Kunpeng Step to appear behind him and attack with the Spear of Hell.
• The white-robed steward used Thunder-Rushing Hand, strengthened by the Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array, but Xia Ping’s spear tore through his lightning and absorbed its power.
• Xia Ping struck with Lightning Fist, and the white-robed steward pleaded for help as the other stewards realized he was in mortal danger.
• Xia Ping’s punch pierced the steward’s chest, and the lightning inside him made him swell and explode into powder.

Xia Ping withstood the eight chief stewards’ attacks with his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, then revealed his Star Body and counterattacked. He crushed five stewards with gravity and a single punch as the battle continued amid the ruins.

• The eight chief stewards unleashed their divine abilities and spirit artifacts against Xia Ping, but his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art absorbed or diverted their attacks.
• Yan Yong and the other stewards recognized that Xia Ping had formed a Star Body and realized they were outmatched despite their higher cultivation.
• Xia Ping shattered one steward’s Yin-Baleful White Bone Claw with a punch and sent him flying through high-rises.
• Five stewards surrounded Xia Ping, but he used the Star-Drawing Technique to multiply gravity and send them crashing into the ground.
• Xia Ping struck the five stewards with one punch, shattered their Body-Protecting Qi, and devastated the surrounding buildings.

Xia Ping defeated the remaining Crystal City chief stewards, but they tried to use Jiang Yaru and his other companions as hostages. Golden Slime slaughtered the soldiers surrounding them, leaving the battle unresolved as the surviving stewards stared in terror.

• Xu Liangyin and another chief steward attacked Xia Ping while he was recovering, but Xia Ping kicked Xu Liangyin away and killed the other steward with a punch.
• Onlookers discussed Xia Ping's Star Body as he charged toward the remaining chief stewards.
• Yan Yong stopped Xia Ping by revealing that more than ten thousand soldiers had surrounded Jiang Yaru and his companions.
• The chief stewards ordered the soldiers to kill Xia Ping's companions and tried to hold him back.
• Xia Ping ordered Little Gold to attack, and Golden Slime's blades slaughtered the soldiers surrounding Jiang Yaru and the others.

Xia Ping broke the stewards’ full-powered Four Symbols Earthly Baleful Array with the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon, killing three stewards and badly injuring five. As he moved to finish them off, Crystal City’s Lord Jiang Jun arrived and confronted him.

• Xu Liangyin and the other stewards gathered Crystal City’s array power into a black dragon made of Killing Intent and sent it at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon, whose hellish power consumed the Killing Intent and pierced through the black dragon.
• Xia Ping’s strike damaged Crystal City’s arrays and buildings, causing three stewards to explode from the backlash and sending the other five flying, badly injured.
• Xia Ping moved to kill the remaining stewards, but a powerful figure descended and pressed the city’s cultivators to the ground.
• Xia Ping sensed the newcomer’s immense soul force, and the cultivators identified him as Crystal City’s Lord, Jiang Jun.

Jiang Jun arrived in Crystal City and confronted Xia Ping after seeing the destruction and hearing the stewards accuse him. Jiang Jun attacked with the Flying Dragon Nine Forms Sword Art, but Xia Ping dodged the spirit-fire-infused strike.

• Jiang Jun appeared just as Xu Liangyin and the other stewards were close to being wiped out.
• Jiang Jun surveyed the ruined city and dead soldiers, while Xu Liangyin and the other stewards blamed Xia Ping for the destruction.
• Jiang Jun demanded that Xia Ping either kill himself or be killed, and Xia Ping refused to explain himself and challenged him to fight.
• Jiang Jun drew his sword and unleashed the Flying Dragon Nine Forms Sword Art, sending nine sword beams at Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Kunpeng Step to evade the attack, which cut through several distant skyscrapers.

Xia Ping summoned his Saint-Grade Spaceship, the Star Ship, and used it to defeat Jiang Jun, who had attacked him with a vast sword array. The Star Ship rammed Jiang Jun out of Crystal City, killing him and leaving the others to witness the city lord’s death.

• Jiang Jun unleashed his swordsmanship against Xia Ping and the others, while Yan Yong believed Xia Ping was doomed.
• Xia Ping summoned the Star Ship above Crystal City despite the flight-ban array.
• Jiang Jun’s Sword Qi and other attacks failed to damage the Star Ship.
• Xia Ping ordered the Star Ship to ram Jiang Jun, who tried to flee.
• The Star Ship struck Jiang Jun and sent him crashing through buildings and out of Crystal City, where he died.

Xia Ping killed Jiang Jun and the other stewards, then forced Xu Liangyin to reveal what he knew about the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice. He enslaved Xu Liangyin with the Soul Seal and gained access to the man’s thoughts and memories.

• Xia Ping rammed Jiang Jun to death with his flying ship, then used Kunpeng Step and his fists to kill the fleeing stewards, leaving Xu Liangyin barely alive.
• Xu Liangyin offered his treasures for his life, and Xia Ping demanded to know where the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Crystal Fragrant Rice were hidden.
• Xu Liangyin claimed that only he knew the secret location on Crystal Star and tried to bargain for his survival.
• Xia Ping cast the Soul Seal into Xu Liangyin’s soul, overpowering and brainwashing him into a loyal servant.
• Xia Ping sensed that he could read Xu Liangyin’s thoughts and memories, including his martial arts experience.

After killing Xu Liangyin and looting Crystal City, Xia Ping headed for the Red Scarf Bandits' secret base where Crystal Fragrant Rice was grown. The bandits received word of Crystal City's fall too late, and Xia Ping's spaceship began tearing apart their heavily defended base.

• Xia Ping killed Xu Liangyin, sent Jiang Yaru and the others back to the Star Ship, and looted Crystal City and Auspicious Cloud Tower.
• Xia Ping headed north toward the Red Scarf Bandits' base, while surviving bandits in Crystal City reported the deaths of the city lord and the nine chief stewards to headquarters.
• Red Scarf Bandit soldiers at the northern base chatted about its long, peaceful history until one spotted a spaceship appearing above them.
• The soldiers sounded the alarm, and a captain tried to reassure them while Wang Wu warned that the invasion was dangerous.
• Xia Ping's spaceship smashed through the base's formations and defenses, leaving the captain to urge the soldiers to trust the True Fire Realm commander and his deputies.

A spaceship destroyed the Red Scarf Bandits’ base defenses and killed the base commander and deputy base commanders. The surviving soldiers hid until the ship left, after which the captain ordered them to clean up.

• Wang Wu predicted the base commander would be killed, and a spaceship promptly rammed the True Fire Realm commander into a mountain, killing him.
• The spaceship killed several deputy base commanders, leaving the Red Scarf Bandit soldiers terrified and their base defenseless.
• The captain slapped Wang Wu for continuing to voice grim predictions and ordered him to stay quiet.
• When the spaceship headed for the Crystal Fragrant Rice fields, the captain and his soldiers decided to hide rather than fight.
• After an hour, the spaceship departed, and the captain ordered the soldiers to move out and clean up the aftermath.

The Red Scarf Bandits discovered that Wu Taidou had stripped Crystal Star of its Crystal Fragrant Rice, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and nearly every valuable in the base. Enraged by the loss and the deaths of Jiang Jun and other commanders, the chief ordered a massive fleet to pursue Wu Taidou.

• Red Scarf Bandit soldiers found the Crystal Fragrant Rice fields emptied and the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil dug up.
• The soldiers discovered that Wu Taidou had looted the base’s treasury, kitchen, and other valuables, leaving some soldiers without their clothes.
• The Red Scarf Bandits headquarters learned that Jiang Jun and the other commanders had been killed during Wu Taidou’s raid.
• The elders vowed to investigate Wu Taidou and make him repay the stolen treasures tenfold.
• The Red Scarf Bandit chief sent more than a hundred thousand warships toward Crystal Star to hunt Wu Taidou.

After escaping Crystal Star, Xia Ping returned to the Mountain River Bead and learned from Green Ox how to use Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to restore its space. The soil spread rapidly and enriched the realm, while Xia Ping felt his mana nearing a breakthrough.

• Xia Ping entered the Mountain River Bead and found its plants thriving and its Dragon Savage Rabbit population grown to thirty million.
• Green Ox recognized Xia Ping's Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and explained that it could multiply by absorbing chaotic energy.
• Green Ox opened a formation to draw chaotic currents, causing the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to grow into a mountain.
• Green Ox spread the soil across the realm, and by the next day it had covered ten thousand kilometers and enriched the space with spirit energy.
• Xia Ping sensed the Mountain River Bead recovering and felt his mana nearing a breakthrough.

Xia Ping broke through to the mid-stage of the Treasure Refining Realm on a secluded planet, where his body and Hell Golden Crow bloodline grew much stronger. He awakened a new Hell Golden Crow divine ability, while the arrays hiding his breakthrough began to strain under the heat.

• Xia Ping refused to break through in space because he expected the heavenly tribulation to be more dangerous there, so Cat Immortal took him to a nearby habitable planet.
• Xia Ping found a cave at the convergence of spiritual ley lines and set up a Spirit Gathering Array and illusion arrays before cultivating in seclusion.
• Xia Ping advanced to the mid-stage of the Treasure Refining Realm as his Purple Mansion expanded and his mana and divine sense grew stronger.
• Arrays formed within Xia Ping's body, refining his physique and strengthening his Star Body, Hell Golden Crow Body, Azure Emperor Body, and other special constitutions.
• Xia Ping's Hell Golden Crow Cells increased to one hundred thousand, and their heat began overwhelming the arrays concealing him.
• Xia Ping awakened a divine ability inherited from his Hell Golden Crow bloodline.

After awakening the offensive Hell Golden Crow Claw, Xia Ping tested its devastating power and felt his bloodline and physical strength grow denser. A Thirty-Six-Fold Lightning Tribulation formed over him, and the chapter ended as countless bolts struck.

• Xia Ping awakened Hell Golden Crow Claw and used it to tear apart and incinerate a mountain, then flatten another peak.
• Xia Ping sensed that awakening one hundred thousand Hell Golden Crow Cells had greatly strengthened his bloodline and body.
• A Thirty-Six-Fold Lightning Tribulation gathered over Xia Ping, startling Green Ox and the people aboard the Star Ship.
• Cat Immortal dismissed Green Ox's concern, while Su Ji believed Xia Ping would be fine and Yu Qiqi joked that Heaven was punishing him.
• The tribulation clouds reached their limit, and countless bolts of lightning struck Xia Ping as the disturbance drew nearby cultivators' attention.

Xia Ping underwent his thirty-sixth tribulation on a Guiyuan Sect training planet, drawing the attention of nearby cultivators who realized he was an unknown intruder. Senior Brother Liu Long arrived, recognized Xia Ping’s extraordinary talent, and ordered the group to kill him.

• Guiyuan Sect cultivators gathered at a safe distance and debated how Xia Ping could be undergoing tribulation despite being only in the Treasure Refining Realm.
• The cultivators realized Xia Ping was not one of their disciples and suspected he had intruded on their sect’s protected training planet.
• They decided to wait for senior disciples to arrive because the tribulation was too dangerous to approach.
• Liu Long arrived with five Treasure Refining Realm experts and assessed Xia Ping’s strength and talent.
• Liu Long declared that Xia Ping’s trespass was a capital offense and ordered the others to kill him.

While Xia Ping underwent a lightning tribulation on Guiyuan Sect territory, Liu Long and the sect disciples decided to kill him for his treasures despite his offer of Dragon Blood as compensation. The chapter ended with Liu Long attacking Xia Ping with his Dragon Scale Blade.

• Liu Long ordered the Guiyuan Sect disciples to attack Xia Ping during his tribulation and seize his treasures.
• Xia Ping offered the disciples three bottles of Dragon Blood as compensation for accidentally entering their territory.
• The disciples were tempted by the Dragon Blood, but Liu Long persuaded them that killing Xia Ping would yield even greater treasure.
• Xia Ping warned the Guiyuan Sect disciples that they would pay if they disrupted his tribulation, but they mocked him and refused to back down.
• Liu Long drew his Dragon Scale Blade and unleashed a massive slash at Xia Ping.

Xia Ping resisted his lightning tribulation while Liu Long and the Guiyuan Sect disciples attacked him. He redirected their formation’s power into the tribulation and devoured the resulting lightning essence, leaving the battle and his transformation ongoing.

• Liu Long’s blade strike failed to pierce Xia Ping’s condensed air barrier, and Xia Ping sent him crashing into a mountain wall.
• Xia Ping continued enduring the lightning tribulation, using his divine martial ability to break the bolts and absorb their energy.
• Enraged, Liu Long summoned dozens of Guiyuan Sect disciples to form the Mountain and River Guiyuan Formation and attack Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to redirect the formation’s attack into the lightning tribulation, turning it into a strike that shattered the tribulation cloud.
• Xia Ping swallowed the scattered lightning essence, which coursed through and transformed his body and soul.

Xia Ping defeated Liu Long and the Guiyuan Sect disciples, survived the lightning tribulation, and absorbed its energy along with stellar power. He prepared to kill the helpless disciples, but an unknown figure called out from a thousand miles away.

• Liu Long used the Mountain and River Guiyuan Formation to attack Xia Ping, but Xia Ping shattered his blade and wounded him with Lightning Fist, breaking the formation and injuring the disciples.
• Xia Ping faced the Thirty-Six-Fold Lightning Tribulation and destroyed its final bolt with a punch.
• Xia Ping absorbed the lightning essence and stellar energy, strengthening his body and magical power as a Celestial Star Formation appeared in the sky.
• Xia Ping approached the wounded Liu Long and the other disciples, who threatened him with the Guiyuan Sect and pleaded for their lives.
• Xia Ping raised his hand to kill them, but a figure flying from a thousand miles away shouted, "Stop!"

Xia Ping confronted Zhao Hai, a True Fire Realm expert from the Guiyuan Sect, over the sect disciples’ attempt to kill him during his lightning tribulation. After Zhao Hai refused to admit fault and tried to suppress him, Xia Ping attacked, and the clash killed Liu Long and the other injured disciples.

• Zhao Hai arrived and learned Liu Long’s account, then ordered Xia Ping to surrender and return to Guiyuan Sect headquarters.
• Xia Ping explained that Guiyuan Sect’s disciples had ambushed him during his lightning tribulation, but Zhao Hai dismissed his accusations and refused to apologize.
• Zhao Hai’s furious roar failed to affect Xia Ping, who resisted the divine consciousness attack without moving.
• Xia Ping launched Lightning Fist at Liu Long and the others, while Zhao Hai countered with Palm Lightning.
• The lightning techniques collided, and the resulting energy blasts killed Liu Long and the other injured disciples.