Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping’s fur-plucking of rival prodigies sparked panic and widespread fighting across the Dragon Wood Secret Realm, with the Arhat Race blamed for Wu Wudi’s actions. Meanwhile, Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan reached a towering mountain where Qingluan’s premonition grew stronger.

• The Fire Bear elder recognized Xiong Bo, who mourned his loss of fur, while Yang Jian told Yang Mei his bald head was a fashionable new hairstyle.
• Rumors spread across the Dragon Wood Secret Realm that Wu Wudi had stripped the fur from prodigies of several races and vowed to make everyone bald.
• Races blamed the Arhat Race for Wu Wudi’s actions and attacked its members, drawing the Arhat Race into battles across the realm.
• Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan traveled north under the concealment of the Formless Mask.
• The trio reached a towering mountain, and Qingluan felt her premonition growing stronger.

Xia Ping and his companions watched a powerful Angel force uncover a hidden spatial node leading to Tania’s demi-plane lair. As the angels tried to enter, a colossal Heavenly Dragon emerged from the passage.

• Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan secretly approached a mountain guarded by more than a hundred powerful angels.
• Angel Harley identified a hidden spatial node, and Angel leader Oliver ordered him to open it.
• Harley opened a black vortex, and the angels celebrated the prospect of plundering Tania’s lair and dominating their enemies.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan recognized the discovery’s significance, while Xia Ping noticed the passage beginning to shake.
• A roar sounded from the passage, and a colossal Heavenly Dragon flew out.

Xia Ping and the angels discovered that the Heavenly Dragon guarding the spatial tunnel was an Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman created by Tania. The angels faced a far greater threat when twenty-eight talismans appeared and attacked them, leaving their Holy Light Shield full of cracks.

• Oliver identified the Heavenly Dragon as an Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman and explained its history and power.
• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to see that the dragon was drawn on golden paper, while Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan also coveted the talisman.
• Harley tried to seize the talisman, but Oliver warned him of danger as twenty-seven more Heavenly Dragons appeared from the spatial tunnel.
• The twenty-eight Heavenly Dragons formed the Heavenly Dragon Constellation Grand Formation and charged at the angels.
• Oliver ordered the angels to form the Holy Light Shield, which initially blocked the attack before the dragons bit through it and filled it with cracks.

Oliver and the angels battled the twenty-eight heavenly dragons, but both sides were badly weakened. Oliver then revealed Angel Flame, a devastating trump card, to try to defeat the dragons.

• Oliver abandoned the Holy Light Shield and led the angels in attacking the heavenly dragons with holy light abilities.
• The twenty-eight dragons formed the Heavenly Dragon Constellation Grand Formation and severely wounded the angels with their combined Heavenly Dragon Roar.
• Rabbit Linglong considered taking advantage of the battle, while Qingluan warned that neither side would be easily defeated; Xia Ping weighed a plan to play them against each other.
• The angels and dragons both weakened as their prolonged battle drained their strength.
• Oliver and Harley decided to use their final trump card, and Oliver brought out the Saint-level Angel Flame.

Xia Ping secretly replenished the twenty-eight Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans with Dragon Blood while the Angels tried to drain them with Angel Flame. The talismans regained their peak power, leaving the furious Angels searching for whoever had interfered.

• Oliver hurled Angel Flame at the twenty-eight Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans, and the Angels waited for their power to run out.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan feared the Angels would claim the talismans, while Xia Ping examined them with his Hell Golden Crow Eye.
• Xia Ping realized Dragon Race energy could restore the talismans and secretly launched Dragon Blood into them with the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art.
• The talismans absorbed the Dragon Blood, revived at full strength, and formed a killing array around a colossal Ancient Heavenly Dragon.
• The Angel Flame was blasted away, and the Angels roared for the hidden saboteur to reveal himself.

Xia Ping hid from the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans’ devastating attack, then seized the chance to ambush the weakened angels. He killed Oliver and Harley with the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon, while the surviving angels remained nearby.

• The twenty-eight Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans formed a killing formation and devastated the region around Oliver, Harley, and the other angels.
• Xia Ping hid Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan in the Mountain River Bead, then sheltered there himself as the angels fought the talismans.
• The talismans’ attack killed dozens of Return to Truth Realm angels and all six Dharma Image Realm angels, leaving Oliver, Harley, and the other survivors severely wounded and drained.
• Xia Ping emerged from the Mountain River Bead and attacked the weakened angels with the Spear of Hell-Suppressing Demon.
• Xia Ping shattered Oliver’s Holy Light Shield, impaled him, and used the spear to devour his essence before killing him.
• Harley charged Xia Ping in fury, but Xia Ping pierced him through the heart and killed him.

Xia Ping slaughtered the exhausted angels and seized and refined all twenty-eight Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans. He discovered that the talismans could form a devastating formation and strengthen him, though their strongest attacks required Dragon Blood.

• Xia Ping killed the angels who stayed behind and then slaughtered the rest, collecting their Angel Crystals.
• Xia Ping seized the twenty-eight weakened Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans before they could recover.
• Xia Ping suppressed the talismans’ Ancient Heavenly Dragon wills and imprinted them with his divine sense.
• Xia Ping realized the talismans could form the Heavenly Dragon Twenty-Eight Mansions Grand Formation, but needed Dragon Blood for their strongest attacks.
• Xia Ping found that the talismans absorbed void energy and strengthened his body, and the Cat Immortal explained they were top-grade Saint artifacts.

Xia Ping absorbed the Angel Flame left behind by the destroyed Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans, awakening more Hell Golden Crow Cells and raising his cultivation to the perfected mid-stage Golden Core Realm. He entered a spatial passage with Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan, while other factions headed toward the site of the battle in search of treasure.

• Xia Ping absorbed the lingering Angel Flame into his Sun Furnace and learned that it could purify enemies while sparing and healing friends.
• The Angel Flame awakened another million Hell Golden Crow Cells and raised Xia Ping's mana to the perfected mid-stage Golden Core Realm.
• Xia Ping released Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan, showed them the angels' remains, and admitted that he had killed them all.
• Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan entered the spatial passage into the half-plane world.
• The Elephant Race, White Tiger Race, Antelope Race, Peacock Race, and other factions sensed the battle's energy and rushed to investigate.

Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan entered a demi-plane filled with rare spirit grains and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, which Xia Ping harvested for the Mountain River Bead. They then explored Tania’s abandoned laboratory, where Xia Ping found her experimental records on creating Corpse Beasts.

• Xia Ping discovered fields of Crystal Fragrant Rice, Golden Corn, and Glazed Sweet Potatoes, and found that the latter two strengthened his bloodline, physique, and spiritual sense.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan ate the spirit grains with Xia Ping, while Green Ox urged him to transplant them into the Mountain River Bead.
• Green Ox identified the demi-plane’s soil as Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and Xia Ping dug up the spirit grains and soil, leaving the fields stripped bare.
• Xia Ping entered Tania’s vast laboratory complex and found that its equipment had been removed.
• Xia Ping discovered Tania’s Dragon Race-script records describing her experiments in creating Corpse Beasts.

Xia Ping realized Tania had intended to use Taotie cells to create an endlessly evolving drug, and considered using the Soul Seal to control the Corpse Beast and its infection. After taking control of the demi-plane and hiding its spatial node, he found a warehouse full of Dragon Crystals.

• Xia Ping concluded that a sane, controlled Corpse Beast could create rational Taotie thralls, and considered enslaving it with the Soul Seal.
• Rabbit Linglong found the demi-plane’s restriction core, and Qingluan warned that outsiders might investigate the earlier battle.
• Xia Ping refined the stone stele, closed the spatial passage, and hid the demi-plane’s spatial node within a grain of sand.
• Xia Ping used his control of the demi-plane to discover and open a concealed warehouse.
• Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan found a mountain of Dragon Crystals and recognized their immense value for bloodline evolution.

Xia Ping consumed eight Dragon Crystals and broke through to the late Golden Core Realm, greatly expanding his Purple Mansion and divine sense while awakening eight million Hell Golden Crow Cells. The flames from his breakthrough frightened Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan, who resolved to cultivate with their own Dragon Crystals.

• Xia Ping refined eight Dragon Crystals, filling his Purple Mansion with surging magic power.
• Xia Ping broke through to the late Golden Core Realm as his Purple Mansion expanded and his divine sense spread across the pocket-dimension world.
• Xia Ping sensed his Primordial Spirit growing within his Golden Core and awakened eight million Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Xia Ping's dark-golden flames erupted around his seclusion area, melting nearby buildings and forcing Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan to flee.
• Qingluan admired Xia Ping's bloodline, while Rabbit Linglong vowed to surpass him and make him her male servant.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan decided to enter seclusion and cultivate with their Dragon Crystals.

After stabilizing his late Golden Core Realm cultivation, Xia Ping tested his enhanced physical power, mastered flames, and strengthened divine consciousness. He advanced his illusion arts to the beginner stage of One Thought, One World, leaving Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan puzzled by the sudden city he had created.

• Xia Ping spent more than a month stabilizing his cultivation and further advancing his mana with the Dragon Crystal’s energy.
• Xia Ping demonstrated the immense strength of his body, devastating the surrounding land with his breathing and a single stomp.
• Xia Ping summoned six strange flames and blasted craters into the ground, setting the region ablaze.
• Xia Ping used his strengthened divine consciousness to create a lifelike ancient city and realized he had entered the beginner stage of One Thought, One World.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan emerged from seclusion, saw the city, and wondered why it had appeared.

Xia Ping tested his illusions on Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan, then fought off Rabbit Linglong when she realized he had tricked her. He opened a passage out of the demi-plane so they could search for the Source of Dragon Wood and the Corpse Beast.

• Xia Ping spread an illusion across the ancient city, making Rabbit Linglong see a shop piled with fragrant carrots while Qingluan used her Qingluan Eye to see through it.
• Rabbit Linglong bit a stone she believed was a carrot, and Qingluan dispelled the illusion by sending magic power into her divine consciousness.
• Xia Ping appeared and assessed that his illusions could fool ordinary beings but not creatures with special eyes like Qingluan.
• Rabbit Linglong attacked Xia Ping with her Space Kick, but he blocked her strikes with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art until she exhausted herself.
• Xia Ping opened a spatial passage from the demi-plane, and he, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan flew through it to leave.

After emerging from the shifting demi-plane, Xia Ping, Qingluan, and Rabbit Linglong encountered Xiong Bo surrounded by Corpse Monsters and rescued him. Xiong Bo revealed why he had ended up alone, and Xia Ping began questioning him about the Dragon Wood Secret Realm.

• Xia Ping and his companions emerged into an unfamiliar forest and sensed a large group of Corpse Monsters nearby.
• They spotted Xiong Bo, a Fire Bear Clan warrior Xia Ping recognized as the bear whose fur he had shaved off, surrounded by more than a thousand Corpse Monsters.
• Xia Ping chose to save Xiong Bo for information, and he, Qingluan, and Rabbit Linglong destroyed the Corpse Monsters with a barrage of attacks.
• Xiong Bo thanked Xia Ping, who pretended their shared origin made them allies and asked why Xiong Bo was traveling alone.
• Xiong Bo said his lost fur had damaged his standing and driven away his girlfriends, so he had run off by himself.
• Xia Ping comforted Xiong Bo and reassured him that his fur would grow back and he could find new partners.

After Xia Ping won Xiong Bo’s trust with a fabricated tale of romantic heartbreak, Xiong Bo offered to lead him, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan to the Source of Dragon Wood. The group learned that it grew near the Corpse Beast’s sealed land, and Xiong Bo prepared to guide them there despite the dangers.

• Xia Ping told Xiong Bo a false story about being deceived by a woman, and Xiong Bo sympathized with him and cursed women.
• Xiong Bo invited Xia Ping to join him for an opportunity, then revealed that he knew where to find the Source of Dragon Wood.
• Xiong Bo explained that many Dragon Wood Trees grew around the Corpse Beast’s sealed land, where Saints had used them to establish a powerful sealing formation.
• Xiong Bo said his Fire Bear Clan had found a way into the sealed land’s outer perimeter, but warned that other races and corpse monsters made the area dangerous.
• Xiong Bo offered to lead Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan to the sealed land three thousand li away.

Xia Ping and Xiong Bo reached the Sealed Land, where rival Western Universe races had gathered around the formation guarding its dragonwood forest and the Corpse Beast within. When a Silver Tiger challenged Xia Ping, Xiong Bo defended him and was mocked by other demons for befriending a human and being defeated by Wu Wudi.

• Xia Ping pretended to sympathize with Xiong Bo’s hatred of Wu Wudi and promised to help him defeat the monk, though Xia Ping was Wu Wudi himself.
• Xiong Bo led Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan to the Sealed Land, where Xia Ping sensed the Saint-made formation, ancient dragonwood trees, and the sealed Corpse Beast.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan noticed camps belonging to many Western Universe races gathered around the Sealed Land.
• Hu Hai, a Silver Tiger, ordered Xia Ping and his companions to leave, but Xia Ping insulted him and refused to back down.
• Xiong Bo stepped in to protect Xia Ping, prompting other demons to ridicule him for becoming brothers with a human and being humiliated by Wu Wudi.

Xia Ping confronted the demons who mocked Xiong Bo and effortlessly repelled the Silver Tiger’s attacks. After Xia Ping injured it with a single punch, the enraged Silver Tiger rose again to continue fighting.

• The Bronze Scorpion insulted Xiong Bo, and Xia Ping threatened it for disrespecting his brother.
• The Silver Tiger charged Xia Ping, but its first strike rebounded off his energy shield and sent it flying.
• The Silver Tiger unleashed a powerful formation attack, but Xia Ping’s Kunpeng runes swallowed it.
• The Silver Tiger gathered its power for a desperate attack, but Xia Ping struck first and shattered its formations with one punch.
• The injured Silver Tiger forced itself back to its feet and vowed to kill Xia Ping.

Xia Ping brutally defeated Hu Hai and three Silver Tigers in the Dragon Wood Secret Realm, shocking the surrounding demons. He then considered how to cook Hu Hai, who desperately tried to convince him not to eat it.

• Xia Ping beat Hu Hai into a bloody, nearly lifeless state despite its pleas for help.
• Three Silver Tigers attacked Xia Ping to rescue Hu Hai, but he struck them down with Lightning Fist and sent them flying through mountains.
• The demons recognized Xia Ping as a human genius with a supreme physique, while the Bronze Scorpion fled and privately justified its retreat.
• Xia Ping asked Hu Hai how it wanted to be cooked, and Hu Hai claimed it was a cat with tough, unpalatable meat.

Xia Ping spared Hu Hai after Xiong Bo intervened, then joined the Fire Bear Clan camp with Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan. After settling in, Xia Ping secretly left to investigate the Dragon Wood Nine Palaces Heavenly Dipper Grand Formation and the Corpse Beast’s seal.

• Xiong Bo asked Xia Ping to spare Hu Hai, and Xia Ping agreed; Hu Hai abandoned his request for his stolen Space Ring and returned to the Silver Tiger camp.
• Xiong Bo led Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan to the Fire Bear Clan camp, where curious Fire Bears crowded around them before Xiong Bo found them an empty tent.
• Xiong Bo told Xia Ping that they would enter the sealed land to hunt Dragon Wood Trees the next day.
• Xia Ping set up an array in the tent and told Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan to cover for him while he explored the formation and sought a way to free and enslave the Corpse Beast.
• Xia Ping used the Formless Mask to vanish from the tent, leaving Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan to provide his alibi.

Xia Ping infiltrated the Sealed Land, discovered that most of its Dragon Wood Trees had become dangerous Corpse Monsters, and used his World Tree power to pass through its defenses. He found the sealed Corpse Beast and bought a Saint-Grade Forbidden-Breaking Talisman, but decided to weaken the beast first by drawing other experts into a fight against it.

• Xia Ping entered the Sealed Land disguised as a corroded Dragon Wood Tree and learned that infected trees made up eighty percent of those there.
• Xia Ping sensed that his World Tree power could control the Dragon Wood Trees, then traveled through the restriction formations into the inner world.
• Xia Ping found the mountain-sized Corpse Beast bound by eighteen thousand layers of Saint-laid formations.
• Xia Ping asked the system for a way to break the formations and spent two billion Hate Points on a Saint-Grade Forbidden-Breaking Talisman.
• Xia Ping decided to lure the Dragon Wood Secret Realm's experts into fighting the Corpse Beast so he could weaken and enslave it while earning Hate Points.