Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping killed the Black Fox Pirate Crew members who tried to attack him and demolished the officers who came to retaliate. After sensing the World Tree’s aura underground, he exposed the arena’s hidden slave prisons.

• Xia Ping killed Manager Li and burned the Black Fox Pirate Crew soldiers who attacked him in the VIP room.
• The explosion triggered an alarm, and Black Fox Pirate Crew officers rushed to the scene and attacked Xia Ping, Qiu Xue, and Su Mei.
• Xia Ping blew away the officers’ attacks and killed them, wrecking the surrounding buildings and ground.
• Xia Ping sensed the World Tree’s aura underground and stomped the earth apart, revealing prisons holding captured young female slaves.

Xia Ping rescued Ruth from the Black Fox Pirate Crew’s underground prison and freed the other captive girls, then sent them into the Mountain River Bead space as the Forty Bandits Alliance mobilized against him. He left Qiu Xue, Su Mei, and Ruth there too, while enemies gathered outside.

• Pirates across Bandit Star learned that an intruder had attacked the slave arena, and the Forty Bandits Alliance dispatched experts to respond.
• Xia Ping entered the underground prison and burned the Black Fox Pirate Crew’s jailers to ash with his void flames.
• Xia Ping found Ruth, and Qiu Xue and Su Mei recognized the Treant Race girl they had come to rescue.
• Ruth called Xia Ping the god of the Treant Race because he carried the World Tree’s aura, and Xia Ping freed her from her cage and restraints.
• At Green Ox’s suggestion, Xia Ping freed the other slave girls and sent them into the Mountain River Bead space as workers.
• Xia Ping sent Qiu Xue, Su Mei, and Ruth into the Mountain River Bead space to protect them from the approaching enemies.

Xia Ping broke into the Black Fox Pirate Crew’s treasure vault, killed its Lightning Tribulation Realm guards, and took everything inside. His raid alarmed Bandit Star and the Forty Bandits Alliance, whose elders prepared to activate the planet’s restriction formations and hunt him down.

• Xia Ping sensed the Black Fox Pirate Crew’s treasure vault and flew toward it, where three Lightning Tribulation Realm elders attacked him.
• Xia Ping killed the three elders with one palm strike, and the nearby pirates fled.
• Xia Ping melted through the vault’s defenses and looted its spirit stones, ores, medicines, pills, and magic treasures.
• Xia Ping emptied the vault, then melted down its materials and took the resulting metal.
• The Black Fox Pirate Crew’s elder condemned Xia Ping’s actions, while an order instructed the pirates to stay indoors as Bandit Star’s restriction formations were prepared.

Xia Ping looted the Black Fox Pirate Crew’s treasure vault on Bandit Star before the planet’s warning bell and restriction formations were activated. When hundreds of elders attacked him, he killed them all with the Great Compassion Great Mercy Palm.

• Bandit Star’s Warning Bell rang for the first time, and restriction formations spread across the planet, binding its inhabitants.
• Xia Ping sensed the formations but resisted their binding force after stripping the Black Fox Pirate Crew’s treasure vault of its contents and walls.
• More than three hundred elders of the Forty Bandits Alliance appeared and confronted Xia Ping, while Black Fox Pirate Crew elders discovered their vault had been emptied.
• Xia Ping defended his theft by calling the treasures ill-gotten wealth, enraging the Black Fox Pirate Crew elders into attacking him together.
• Xia Ping used the Great Compassion Great Mercy Palm to shatter the elders’ spells and kill the attacking Black Fox Pirate Crew elders.

Xia Ping survived the pirate elders’ Sky Net System and revealed a body they mistook for an Immortal Saint’s. He killed the fleeing elders with the Seven Kill True Dragon Roar, leaving the Forty Bandits Alliance without its leaders at the scene.

• The pirate elders activated the Sky Net System and unleashed its lasers on Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping’s body was riddled with holes, but it regenerated instantly without injury.
• The pirate elders believed Xia Ping was an Immortal Saint and tried to flee, since their ancestors were unavailable to help.
• Xia Ping used the Seven Kill True Dragon Roar to kill every pirate elder, causing the Sky Net System to stop attacking.

Xia Ping discovered that the saints behind the Forty Bandits Alliance were absent from Bandit Star and followed the Wish Compass to the hidden Earth Mother Stone. In a concealed plane, five Immortal Demons began activating a sacrificial altar to open a passage to the Abyss World and unleash an invasion.

• Xia Ping found no saints on Bandit Star and suspected they were hiding near the Earth Mother Stone.
• Xia Ping traversed space to the stone's location and found a hidden plane containing the Earth Mother Stone and a sacrificial altar.
• Five Immortal Demons dismissed the pirates' deaths and revealed that the Forty Bandits Alliance was their tool for gathering resources and intelligence.
• The Immortal Demons explained that they planned to summon an Abyss Demon army and conquer the universe in revenge for their defeat in the Ancient Era.
• A bull-horned Immortal Demon ordered the others to activate the altar, and they began chanting as demonic energy filled the plane.

Xia Ping entered a hidden minor world where five Immortal demons were using an altar to summon the Abyss, and he spotted the Earth Mother Stone. When one demon attacked him with the Heaven-Hating Sword, Xia Ping absorbed the strike with his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.

• The five Immortal demons offered treasures to the Abyss and began opening a passage through their altar.
• Xia Ping broke into the minor world and saw the Earth Mother Stone, exciting the Golden Slime around his wrist.
• Xia Ping recognized the five demons as possible forces behind the Forty Bandits Alliance, while they decided to kill him to protect their secret.
• An Immortal demon attacked Xia Ping with the Abyss Divine Ability—Heaven-Hating Sword.
• Xia Ping blocked and swallowed the sword's demonic energy and hatred with his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, leaving the demon stunned.

Xia Ping faced several Abyss Demons and countered their divine abilities with his Sun Furnace. After his flames burned the demonic vines and evaporated the Black Jellyfish River, a snake-headed demon attacked him from behind.

• Xia Ping praised an immortal demon’s sword strike, angering it by implying he could judge and outmatch immortal-level demons.
• An azure immortal demon summoned a forest of black vines to cage Xia Ping while a fish-headed demon unleashed the Black Jellyfish River.
• Xia Ping formed a Sun Furnace whose Hell Golden Crow flames burned the vines and evaporated the river.
• A snake-headed immortal demon transformed into a giant burning serpent and lunged at Xia Ping from behind.

Xia Ping held off five immortal demons while the Golden Slime devoured the Earth Mother Stone at the altar. With the sacrifice gone, the altar shattered and the attempt to summon the will of the abyss failed.

• Xia Ping repelled attacks from a serpent-headed immortal demon and a bronze-colored immortal demon, injuring both.
• Xia Ping mocked the five immortal demons and kept them occupied with the Myriad Stars Yin-Yang Scripture.
• The Golden Slime secretly approached the altar and began devouring the Earth Mother Stone on Xia Ping's orders.
• The immortal demons noticed the Golden Slime and tried to stop it, but Xia Ping blocked their way.
• The Golden Slime swallowed the Earth Mother Stone, causing the will of the abyss to recede and the altar to shatter.

The five immortal demons attempted to seize the Earth Mother Stone, but the Golden Slime swallowed it and Xia Ping rescued the creature. Enraged, the demons used the Abyss Sealing Technique against Xia Ping, who answered by drawing the Samsara Pen and attacking them.

• The Golden Slime swallowed the Earth Mother Stone, and Xia Ping called it back into the Mountain River Bead's space.
• Xia Ping stunned the five immortal demons with the Mourning Staff, letting the Golden Slime escape their attack.
• The five immortal demons burned their blood essence and souls, then invoked the abyssal will to unleash the Abyss Sealing Technique on Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping sensed the threat of the abyssal chains, took out the Samsara Pen, and directed its power at the five immortal demons.

Xia Ping defeated the five immortal demons, captured them as nourishment for the World Tree, and claimed their small-world lair and its riches. He left the Golden Slime to devour the stored materials and headed to Bandit Star to loot the pirate planets.

• Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to shatter the Abyssal chains and badly injure the five immortal demons.
• The demons tried to flee, but Xia Ping pierced them with the Samsara Pen and crippled their combat strength.
• Xia Ping sent World Tree roots into the five demons and dragged them away to be drained as nourishment.
• Xia Ping claimed the demons' small world and ordered the Golden Slime to eat the materials stored there.
• Xia Ping left the Golden Slime behind and headed to Bandit Star to loot the pirate planets.

Xia Ping robbed the Black Cat Pirate Crew’s treasury at Bandit Star and revealed that he had killed the five Saints who backed the Forty Bandits Alliance. He left the pirates stunned and helpless after identifying himself as Wu Wudi.

• Xia Ping broke into the Black Cat Pirate Crew’s vault and drove off the pirates trying to stop him.
• Xia Ping dismissed the pirates’ protests, saying he was robbing the rich to aid the poor, and sent them flying with a gust of wind.
• Xia Ping showed the pirates the five Saints’ heads and said he had wiped out the ancestors who protected the Forty Bandits Alliance.
• Pirates who approached the heads were pierced by their killing intent, confirming the Saints were dead.
• Xia Ping finished plundering the vault, challenged the pirates to consider how their victims felt, and named himself Wu Wudi.

After the pirates recognized Xia Ping as the infamous Wu Wudi, they surrendered and welcomed him rather than resist. Xia Ping looted the Forty Bandits Alliance so thoroughly that the pirates wept with relief when he finally left.

• Pirates identified Xia Ping as Wu Wudi and recounted his enormous bounties, brutal crimes, and attacks on powerful forces.
• The pirates saw the five bloody ancestral heads and realized their Immortal Saint backers had been killed, so they gave up resisting.
• Xia Ping claimed the accusations against him were false, and the terrified pirates agreed with him.
• Xia Ping continued looting the Forty Bandits Alliance, whose pirates prepared their treasures for him wherever he went.
• Xia Ping left after exhausting the Alliance's wealth, and the pirates tearfully watched him go.

News spread that Wu Wudi had destroyed the Forty Bandits Alliance and killed the five Saints supporting it, forcing factions across the universe to reconsider how they would deal with him. After the pirates fled their abandoned starfield, three human Saints arrived at Bandit Star and identified the five severed heads as those of Abyss Demonic Beasts.

• Word spread that Wu Wudi had destroyed the Forty Bandits Alliance and killed its five Immortal Saints, and people across the universe reacted with shock.
• Major factions suspected Immortal Gaia had helped Wu Wudi and ordered their spies to gather intelligence without provoking him.
• The pirates abandoned the Alliance’s thirty thousand planets and scattered across the universe after Xia Ping left.
• Three human Saints arrived on Bandit Star and found that the five heads were protected by expanding immortal killing intent.
• A human Saint recognized the heads as belonging to Abyss Demonic Beasts disguised as Saints and expressed hatred toward them.

Three Saints discovered that the Forty Bandits Alliance’s five Immortal Saints were Abyss Demons and found their destroyed altar, then reported the threat to the Abyss World. The Abyss leaders learned that Wu Wudi had foiled their plan and ordered demons across the universe to hunt him.

• The three Saints examined the five severed heads and sensed that Wu Wudi had suppressed the Abyss Demons before their heads were destroyed.
• The black-robed Saint opened a spatial gate, and the three Saints found the remains of an Abyss altar built to create a permanent passage into the universe.
• The three Saints sealed the starfield, then left to report the altar and search for Wu Wudi.
• The Abyss Demons learned that Sailaida and the others had failed and that Wu Wudi had destroyed their plan.
• The three-thousand-eyed figure calmed the demons and ordered their agents throughout the universe to capture Wu Wudi and bring him to the Abyss.

Xia Ping sorted the pirates’ spoils and discovered a Sound Pattern Stone that could help the Chaos Bell evolve. Ruth then nervously asked whether the Lord was with him, leaving Xia Ping puzzled about what she meant.

• Xia Ping received eighty Hate Crystals for angering pirates and Abyss Demons, bringing his total to seven hundred.
• Xia Ping inventoried the pirates’ herbs, pills, and magical treasures, then found a Sound Pattern Stone among them.
• Xia Ping learned that Sound Pattern Stones came from Demonic Sound Mountain and realized the stone could give the Chaos Bell soul-damaging power.
• Xia Ping considered using the Wish Compass to find more Sound Pattern Stones, but he had only obtained one.
• Qiu Xue and Su Mei brought Ruth to Xia Ping, and Ruth asked whether the Lord was with him before becoming flustered by his confusion.

Xia Ping revealed the World Tree to Qiu Xue, Su Mei, and Ruth, who received its blessing and explained the Treant Race’s crisis. Xia Ping agreed to visit the Treant Race and see whether he could save their dying Sacred Tree.

• Xia Ping summoned the World Tree, stunning Qiu Xue and Su Mei and filling Ruth with devotion.
• The World Tree blessed Ruth, increasing her strength and forming a mysterious spiritual connection with Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping learned from the system that the Treant Race served the World Tree and could help it grow.
• Ruth told Xia Ping that the Treant Race’s Sacred Tree had been dying for hundreds of millions of years and that her people had searched for the World Tree to save it.
• Ruth offered to make the Treant Race Xia Ping’s vassal if he saved their Sacred Tree, and Xia Ping agreed to see it.

Ruth told Xia Ping that the Treant Race lived in the wandering Tree World and that Elder Rich on Red Soil Star could help them return. She revealed that her parents had survived by turning into seeds, then Xia Ping decided to keep the rescued slave girls as laborers and carried Qiu Xue and Su Mei off as they protested.

• Ruth explained that the Treant Race's sacred tree was the moving body of the Tree World and that Elder Rich could locate it.
• Ruth told Xia Ping that Elder Rich was on Red Soil Star, and Xia Ping decided to seek him out the next day.
• Ruth revealed that her parents had turned into seeds to survive and could be resurrected near the sacred tree, though Treants could use the ability only three times.
• Ruth went to rest, and Xia Ping said he would keep the rescued slave girls to work planting spirit herbs and spirit grain.
• Xia Ping seized Qiu Xue and Su Mei and carried them off while they shouted at him to let go.

Xia Ping and Ruth arrived at Red Soil Star and headed to Red Earth City to look for Elder Rich. At the city gates, they witnessed Wu Wudi bluff his way past the entry fee by claiming to be the infamous wanted criminal, while the terrified guards and bystanders believed him.

• Xia Ping and Ruth reached Red Soil Star, and Ruth said Elder Rich was working as an alchemist in Red Earth City.
• Xia Ping brought Ruth to the heavily guarded commercial city, where she warned him about the dangers and criminal groups there.
• A blue-clad young man argued with the gate soldiers over Red Earth City's hundred-coin entry fee.
• The young man claimed to be Wu Wudi, and the crowd and soldiers mistook him for the notorious wanted criminal who had destroyed the Forty Bandits Alliance and killed five Saints.
• City captains waived the fee, and the impostor strutted into Red Earth City while Xia Ping watched in silence.

Xia Ping entered Red Earth City with Ruth and discovered that a young man from the Illusion Race was impersonating him to intimidate and swindle locals. He became interested in finding the Illusion Race’s hidden lair and its accumulated wealth.

• Xia Ping entered Red Earth City with Ruth and surveyed its bustling streets and shops.
• Xia Ping spotted a blue-clad young man posing as Wu Wudi and bullying an artifact shop owner.
• The impostor forced the shop owner to surrender hundreds of artifacts for a tiny payment by threatening him and the surrounding crowd.
• Xia Ping saw through the young man’s false aura and recognized that he was using an illusion technique to impersonate Wu Wudi.
• Green Ox explained that the young man might belong to the notorious Illusion Race, which used transformations to swindle others and evade capture.
• Xia Ping grew interested in finding the Illusion Race’s lair and claiming its wealth.