Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping, posing as Yang Budong, announced his plan to control Borderhead Planet's criminal factions and demand ninety percent of their profits. Giant Cook challenged him and launched a powerful punch, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Prominent figures gathered at the Golden Dragon Hotel to meet the newly appointed governor, Yang Budong, as the Medlin Family hosted the banquet.
• Xia Ping entered with his group and told the assembled factions he intended to suppress rebellious elements and protect Universe Sect territory.
• Xia Ping offered to overlook past crimes but demanded that the factions surrender ninety percent of their profits from smuggling, drug trafficking, and slave trading.
• Giant Cook identified himself as the man who had cursed Xia Ping, challenged his strength, and attacked with a devastating punch.

Xia Ping killed Cook and the Cook Gang elites who tried to attack him, demonstrating overwhelming strength to the gathered gang leaders. Bronte then submitted the Medlin Family to Xia Ping’s demand for ninety percent of its profits.

• Xia Ping killed Cook with a light tap after neutralizing his punch.
• Cook’s sworn brothers charged Xia Ping with plasma bombs, but he burned them to ashes with Sun Essence flames.
• The assembled gang leaders judged Xia Ping to possess power beyond ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivators and stayed silent when he invited objections.
• Bronte declared that the Medlin Family had no objections and would hand over ninety percent of its profits starting the next day.

After the banquet, Bronte explained that the Medlin Family had agreed to Yang Budong’s demands only to buy time and deceive him with falsified accounts. He planned to have Red Scarf Bandits kill Yang Budong and take the blame, while Duan Chengrui watched Yang’s movements.

• Bronte told the underworld leaders to endure Yang Budong because he represented the Universe Sect and was too dangerous to confront openly.
• Bronte instructed the leaders to falsify their account books and report only a fraction of their profits to Yang Budong.
• Bronte assured the leaders that the Medlin Family had a secret plan to kill Yang Budong, though he withheld its details from them.
• After the meeting, Bronte told Duan Chengrui that Red Scarf Bandit officers would come to Borderhead Planet for an important transaction and help ambush Yang Budong.
• Bronte ordered Duan Chengrui to watch Yang Budong and avoid acting rashly until the plan was ready.

Xia Ping targeted the Fite Family for secretly trafficking slaves, intending to destroy the family and draw out its backers. At the family’s base, its members struggled to contain a Taotie Clan girl who had consumed much of their food and even their spacecraft.

• Xia Ping received 100 million Hate Points and decided to drive Borderhead Planet’s forces into desperation while pursuing the Red Scarf Bandits.
• Xia Ping learned that the Fite Family traded slaves and ignored Duan Chengrui’s warnings about the powerful family’s connections.
• Xia Ping grabbed Duan Chengrui and set out to attack the Fite Family’s base before Duan could alert them.
• Fite Family members complained that Slave Girl Number Sixty-Six had eaten their food and spacecraft, then learned she was a Taotie Clan member who had attached herself to them for food.

Xia Ping and Duan Chengrui arrived at the Fite Family base, where Xia Ping ordered an inspection for slave trafficking. The Fite Family refused and opened fire, leaving Duan Chengrui fearing they would both be killed.

• A Taotie Clan girl devoured several tons of food in her cell, frightened the neighboring slave girls, and fell asleep when she could not get more.
• Xia Ping and Duan Chengrui appeared outside the Fite Family base, and Xia Ping declared that he would destroy the slave-trading operation.
• The Fite Family’s guards recognized Yang Budong and activated the base’s weapons against him and Duan Chengrui.
• Xia Ping ordered the Fite Family to open its gates for an inspection and warned that anyone who resisted would be killed.
• The Fite Family’s leaders ordered all eighteen hundred Laser Cannons to fire, sending tens of thousands of beams toward Xia Ping and Duan Chengrui.
• Duan Chengrui panicked as the laser beams formed a deadly net around them.

Xia Ping destroyed the Fite Family base and killed its elite members after they attacked him, then entered the underground slave prison. As he found the imprisoned girls, a little girl clung to his leg and asked him to adopt her.

• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Claw to shatter the Fite Family base and its weapons systems.
• The surviving Fite Family elites tried to negotiate with Xia Ping, but he killed them when they threatened him.
• Xia Ping collected the dead elites’ Space Rings and discovered the base’s underground slave prison remained intact.
• Xia Ping broke into the underground prison, where the Fite Family members surrendered and told him they held top-grade slaves there.
• A little girl ran up to Xia Ping, clung to his leg, and asked him to adopt her.

The Taotie Clan girl Tan Menglu tricked Xia Ping into accepting her as his master, forming an ancient contract that granted him the Devouring Ability. Xia Ping tested the power and realized that raising his new companion could bankrupt him.

• The Fite Family recognized Tan Menglu and secretly celebrated her leaving after she had consumed much of their wealth.
• Tan Menglu spotted Xia Ping’s enormous treasure light and asked him to adopt her, eager to stay close to someone she believed was rich.
• Before Xia Ping could answer, Tan Menglu bit his finger and used an ancient oath to contract herself to him.
• The contract linked their souls and gave Xia Ping a black talisman containing the Taotie Clan’s Devouring Ability.
• Xia Ping tested the ability by swallowing the earth and stones in a large crater, converting what he devoured into energy.
• Xia Ping realized that keeping Tan Menglu could cost him a fortune because Taotie were capable of eating their owners into poverty.

Xia Ping accepted Tan Menglu as his contracted companion and freed the enslaved girls, then looted the Fite Family’s underground base. He left the base completely dismantled, while the Fite Family and rescued girls watched in shock.

• Tan Menglu asked Xia Ping to take her to eat after their contract bound them together.
• Xia Ping broke open the cages and freed the enslaved girls, then claimed them as his slaves.
• Tan Menglu revealed the hidden treasures in the base, and Xia Ping knocked out the Fite Family members who tried to stop him.
• Xia Ping and Tan Menglu collected the base’s treasures and dismantled the entire structure for its materials.
• Duan Chengrui and the freed girls watched in disbelief as Xia Ping left nothing behind.

The Fite Family patriarch learned that Yang Budong had killed his people and stripped their base bare, then appealed to Bronte for help. Bronte refused to let the Fite Family retaliate while a larger plan was underway, leaving the patriarch resentful but afraid to act.

• The Fite Family patriarch arrived at the ruined base and learned that Yang Budong had killed its defenders and taken the entire base and its treasures.
• The Fite Family patriarch and his vice patriarch decided to seek help from the Medlin Family and demanded Yang Budong's death.
• At the Medlin Family grounds, the Fite Family patriarch told Bronte that Yang Budong had looted the base, taken a Taotie Clan slave girl, and detained Fite Family members who came to protest.
• Bronte told the Fite Family patriarch to halt the slave trade and endure, warning that the Fite Family could not defeat Yang Budong and might be wiped out if it retaliated.
• The Fite Family patriarch reluctantly accepted that he could not act against Yang Budong yet, but swore to kill him if an opportunity arose.

Xia Ping brought fifty slave girls into the Mountain River Bead space and told them they would manage its medicinal fields and spirit grain under Green Ox. He then admired the expanding Crystal Fragrant Rice fields, where Tan Menglu reveled in the abundant food.

• Xia Ping explained that the fifty slave girls would work as laborers tending the Mountain River Bead space rather than serve as maidservants.
• Xia Ping teased and touched a Rabbit-Ear Race girl, an Angel Race girl, and an Arhat Race girl, drawing their embarrassed protests.
• Xia Ping handed the girls over to Green Ox, who led them away to their new home and duties.
• Tan Menglu rolled among the Crystal Fragrant Rice and celebrated the vast supply of food.
• Xia Ping observed that the fields covered ten million square kilometers and produced four billion tons of rice.

Tan Menglu’s enormous appetite supplied Xia Ping with refined energy through their contract, advancing him to the peak of the early Golden Core Realm. While Xia Ping cultivated inside the residence, his enemies planned to lure Tan Menglu outside and use her to draw him into an ambush.

• Tan Menglu ate ten tons of Crystal Fragrant Rice and lay stuffed, while Xia Ping calculated that he could keep up with her appetite.
• Energy refined by Tan Menglu flowed through the contract to Xia Ping, raising his cultivation to the peak of the early Golden Core Realm and bringing him close to a breakthrough.
• Xia Ping spent more than ten days cultivating inside the residence as the Medlin Family and their allies waited outside with the Red Scarf Bandits’ officers.
• The group rejected forcing their way into the Universe Sect outpost and decided to lure Xia Ping out by targeting Tan Menglu.
• The conspirators assigned Duan Chengrui to lure Tan Menglu away with food and prepared to ambush Xia Ping.

Xia Ping used Tan Menglu’s appetite to lure Duan Chengrui into taking her to a restaurant, where he abandoned her with the bill. After the police arrested her for dining and dashing, Xia Ping went to the station, while his enemies waited for him to leave his residence and enter their trap.

• Xia Ping sensed that the Medlin Family and other underworld families planned to ambush him, and told Tan Menglu to accept an invitation to eat out.
• Duan Chengrui took Tan Menglu to a restaurant, where she ordered enormous quantities of food and ate until she was about thirty percent full.
• Duan Chengrui slipped away, and the restaurant owner had Tan Menglu arrested when she could not pay the bill.
• Xia Ping went to the police station after learning Tan Menglu had been detained, and the people monitoring him celebrated that he had left his residence.
• Xia Ping challenged the police for arresting Tan Menglu, accusing them of violating justice, law, and human rights.

Xia Ping left the police station after forcing the officers to apologize to Tan Menglu, only to find Bronte and the underworld families waiting to ambush him. Surrounded by a grand formation, he declared that he would destroy them and launched a devastating punch.

• Xia Ping made the police apologize to Tan Menglu for arresting her after she dined and dashed.
• Xia Ping and Tan Menglu left the police station and found the streets deserted.
• Bronte, the patriarchs of the six other underworld families, and several Golden Core True Persons emerged to confront Xia Ping.
• The underworld leaders revealed that they had set up the Heavenly Net Grand Formation to trap and kill Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping dismissed their threat, said he intended to wipe them out, and struck with a punch that shook the area.
• Bronte shouted for his allies to form the formation.

Xia Ping used the Taotie Clan’s Devouring Ability to destroy the Sevenfold Seven Slaughter Formation that Bronte and the other Golden Core True Persons had set against him. He then attacked the formation’s operators, killing one Golden Core True Person with a single punch.

• Bronte and the other martial artists activated the Sevenfold Seven Slaughter Formation to kill Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping summoned a Taotie and used its Devouring Ability to swallow the formation’s killing intent and shatter its foundations.
• The formation’s operators suffered backlash, and the gathered cultivators recognized Xia Ping’s Devouring Ability and feared his increased strength.
• Xia Ping stepped forward and punched a Golden Core True Person, exploding his body and leaving only his Golden Core behind.

Xia Ping faced a coordinated assault from Bronte, the Light Family patriarch, and seven Red Scarf Bandit officers after they trapped him in a powerful sword formation. He unleashed the Hell Furnace, but the chapter ended before the attackers’ strikes were resolved.

• Bronte urged the Red Scarf Bandits to attack Xia Ping after seeing him kill a Golden Core cultivator.
• Seven Red Scarf Bandit officers formed the Seven-Heart Locking Sword Formation and sealed Xia Ping inside its Sword Qi chains.
• Bronte attacked Xia Ping with the Seven Severances Seven Despairs Heartbreak Palm while he was trapped.
• The Light Family patriarch joined the attack with his Seven Poison Finger divine ability.
• Xia Ping circulated the Pure Yang Indestructible Art and summoned the Hell Furnace.

Xia Ping shattered the Seven-Heart Locking Sword Formation with the Hell Furnace and killed the Fite Family patriarch. Bronte tried to defend himself with the Mountain and River Shield, but Xia Ping’s palm destroyed the shield and killed him.

• Xia Ping summoned the Hell Furnace, obliterated the Red Scarf Bandits’ Sword Qi, and shattered their Seven-Heart Locking Sword Formation.
• The Hell Furnace absorbed Bronte’s and the Fite Family patriarch’s attacks, then Xia Ping burned the patriarch to ashes and left his Golden Core behind.
• Xia Ping struck Bronte with the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Hand, forcing him to activate the Mountain and River Shield.
• Bronte’s shield failed to stop Xia Ping’s palm, and the attack shattered his body and destroyed the shield.

Xia Ping slaughtered the Golden Core cultivators who had come to kill Yang Budong, while Tan Menglu revealed her Taotie power to destroy the underworld patriarchs who tried to seize her. Three Red Scarf Bandit officers remained, and the surrounding underworld members were left terrified.

• Xia Ping killed two Red Scarf Bandit officers with his punches, ignoring their threats and forcing the survivors to flee.
• Xia Ping used his Hell Golden Crow wings to catch the fleeing officers and killed two more before they could escape.
• The remaining cultivators tried to capture Tan Menglu as a hostage, but Xia Ping knew her strength could rival an ordinary Return to Truth Realm cultivator.
• Tan Menglu transformed into a black hole and devoured the four underworld family patriarchs who lunged at her.
• The surviving underworld members trembled as they remembered that Taotie was one of the Ten Ancient Fiends.

Xia Ping unified Borderhead Planet after defeating its underworld forces, enslaving the surviving leaders and killing Duan Chengrui for betraying him. While inspecting the seized treasures, he discovered a legendary Star Core that the Red Scarf Bandits had planned to receive as tribute.

• The three surviving Red Scarf Bandit officers used Blood Escape Art to flee, and Xia Ping let them go so he could track them to their lair.
• The remaining mafia elites surrendered to Xia Ping, but he killed Duan Chengrui after revealing that he knew Duan had betrayed him.
• Xia Ping unified Borderhead Planet, installed Slave Chips in the underworld leaders, and killed those who resisted his rule.
• The mafia families' treasures were brought to Xia Ping's new headquarters in the Medlin Family mansion, where he found a sealed black box meant as tribute for the Red Scarf Bandits.
• Xia Ping broke the box's restrictions and revealed a powerful pearl, which Cat Immortal identified as a legendary Star Core.

Xia Ping used the star core to cultivate the Star-Drawing Technique and broke through to the mid-stage Golden Core Realm. He awakened more Hell Golden Crow Cells and began forming the Myriad Worlds Star Map, while the three injured Red Scarf Bandit officers remained hidden on Borderhead Planet.

• Cat Immortal explained that a star core held a planet’s energy essence and could strengthen Xia Ping’s Star-Drawing Technique and Star Body.
• Xia Ping learned that the three Red Scarf Bandit officers were hiding on Borderhead Planet and could not escape because he controlled its spacecraft.
• Xia Ping cultivated with the star core and absorbed its stellar energy until his magic power filled the Purple Mansion Space.
• Xia Ping broke through to the mid-stage Golden Core Realm, doubling his magic power and divine consciousness.
• Xia Ping awakened more than a million Hell Golden Crow Cells, bringing his total to four million, and began condensing the Myriad Worlds Star Map within his body.

The Tao Brothers prepared to flee Borderhead Planet after Yang Budong defeated their forces and took the Star Core. Wu An learned what had happened and decided to come personally, ordering them to wait and help him attack Yang Budong.

• Tao Yi, Tao Er, and Tao San discussed escaping Borderhead Planet and blamed Yang Budong for defeating their bandits and taking the Star Core.
• The Tao Brothers boarded their hidden spacecraft, but Wu An contacted them before they could leave.
• Wu An accused the Tao Brothers of betraying the Red Scarf Bandits, and Tao Yi explained that Yang Budong had killed their forces and several underworld family leaders.
• Wu An accepted that the Tao Brothers’ account might be true and ordered them to stay on Borderhead Planet until he arrived.
• Wu An vowed to kill Yang Budong and recover the Star Core, planning to flee to the Western Universe afterward if necessary.