Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping and Emma quit the scam after collecting enough money, while their advertisement spread across the universe and drew in hopeful applicants. Three days later, the applicants discovered the phone number had been discarded and realized Integrity Law Firm had fled with their fees.

• Xia Ping told Emma they would stop taking calls, discard the phone number, and report their success to the family head.
• Emma accepted Xia Ping’s plan and said she would report it to the family head.
• The advertisement spread widely, and people argued over whether the offer of a hundred million Universal Coins was genuine or a trap.
• Three days later, applicants found that Integrity Law Firm and the rich woman had not contacted them and that the phone number no longer worked.
• The applicants panicked and called repeatedly before accepting that the scammers had fled with their physical examination fees.

Victims of the “fortune-seeking child” scam discovered that the promised Integrity Law Firm was fake and that they had no way to identify the scammers. News then spread through the Illusion World that Xia Ping had completed the mission and that Bati had orchestrated the scam, earning several hundred billion.

• The victims realized the Integrity Law Firm was fabricated, and they demanded refunds and called on the police to catch the scammers.
• People who had doubted the offer mocked the victims for believing they could get rich and sleep with a beautiful rich woman.
• Police on nearby planets received a flood of complaints and treated the fraud as an unprecedented case, though investigators had few clues.
• Xia Ping submitted the mission in the Illusion World and declared it completed and overfulfilled.
• Members of the Illusion Race learned that Bati had carried out the scam and made several hundred billion, and some admitted they had been swindled too.

After Bati won their wager, Illusion Race enforcers seized Jacob’s fortune and forced him to fulfill the contract’s humiliating second clause. Jacob was left penniless, disgraced, and convinced his life was over.

• Illusion Race spectators mocked Jacob, recalling that his contract with Bati required him to surrender his property and eat ten tons of shit if he lost.
• Enforcers surrounded Jacob’s home and rejected his accusations that Bati had cheated, saying Bati had earned several hundred billion and risen to prominence.
• The enforcers bound Jacob and seized everything he owned except the clothes he wore, transferring his assets to Bati.
• The enforcers forced Jacob to eat one ton of shit despite his protests, and he lay devastated, lamenting his ruined reputation and future.

Keli raged over Bati’s rise and vowed that he would not let him live. Meanwhile, Xia Ping learned that Family Head Sophia wanted to meet him and went with Elder Emma to Lawrence Family headquarters.

• Keli smashed a glass and complained that Bati had humiliated him and grown wealthy after winning his bet with Jacob.
• Keli’s lackeys warned that Bati’s money and new standing could make him powerful, but Keli insisted that Bati would need to stay alive first.
• Elder Emma congratulated Xia Ping on becoming famous and warned him that Jacob might seek revenge.
• Xia Ping argued that Jacob would have taken revenge even if he had abandoned the bet, then asked Emma whether she had arranged his treasury guard position.
• Emma said she had reported the request to Family Head Sophia, who wanted to meet Xia Ping, and took him to Lawrence Family headquarters.

Xia Ping entered the Lawrence Family’s headquarters and met its head, Sophia, an Early Ancient Saint who had mastered spatial laws. Sophia considered his request to become a treasury guard and said she would grant it if he handled a task for her.

• Emma led Xia Ping into the Lawrence Family’s ancient Castle, where family members envied his sudden rise and the head’s personal summons.
• Emma brought Xia Ping to Sophia’s residence, and he sensed that the family head’s power far exceeded his own.
• Green Ox warned Xia Ping that Sophia was likely an Early Ancient Saint who could use spatial laws to evade attacks and strike across dimensions.
• Sophia examined Xia Ping, recognized his unusual perception and talent, but did not uncover his true identity.
• Xia Ping admitted that he wanted the lucrative treasury-guard position, and Sophia offered to consider him for it if he completed a task.

Sophia asked Xia Ping to help sell her three thousand commercial planets at a fair price so she could buy materials for a high-grade sacred artifact. Minerva arrived uninvited and offered to buy them for sixty percent of market value, but Sophia rejected his offer and his advances, leaving him threateningly focused on Xia Ping.

• Sophia explained that she had been unable to sell her three thousand planets for years because buyers offered only half their market value.
• Minerva tore through space into Sophia's Castle, and Emma told Xia Ping that he was the powerful head of the Leinster Family and had long pursued Sophia.
• Minerva used his divine sense to examine Xia Ping but found nothing unusual because of the Formless Mask.
• Minerva offered Sophia sixty percent of the planets' market value and suggested she become his woman, but she angrily refused.
• Minerva questioned whether Xia Ping could help Sophia and stared at him with killing intent.

Xia Ping offered to sell three thousand commercial planets at market price to help Sophia resist Minerva, then left Minerva furious after challenging him to an Illusion Race Contract. Sophia assigned Xia Ping the sale and gave him a Saint-grade talisman that he realized could surveil and kill him, though he concealed his suspicion while pursuing her help to obtain the Sound Pattern Stone.

• Xia Ping told Sophia he could sell three thousand planets at market price, while Minerva mocked his claim and threatened him.
• Xia Ping challenged Minerva to an Illusion Race Contract, wagering his life against Minerva's entire fortune, but Minerva refused and departed the Lawrence Castle.
• Sophia praised Xia Ping's courage, warned him that Minerva might send others after him, and asked whether he could truly sell the planets.
• Sophia entrusted the planet sale to Xia Ping and gave him a Saint-grade talisman that he sensed could surveil him and be detonated to kill him.
• Xia Ping hid his suspicions about the talisman and resolved to tolerate Sophia until he obtained her help securing the Sound Pattern Stone.

Xia Ping proposed selling the Lawrence Family’s three thousand planets through lotteries, winning Emma’s approval and leaving her to run the scheme. He chose to cultivate in seclusion while secretly remaining focused on obtaining the Sound Pattern Stone and leaving the Illusion Race.

• Sophia judged Xia Ping to be genuine Lawrence Family blood and assigned Emma to guide him, while leaving the three thousand planets in his hands with the threat of punishment if he failed.
• Emma told Xia Ping the planet-selling task was entirely his responsibility and asked how he planned to sell the vast asset.
• Xia Ping proposed selling lottery tickets for ten Universal Coins each, with a planet as the prize, and Emma recognized the plan could recover the planets’ value and earn a profit.
• Emma praised Xia Ping’s plan, and he told her to manage the operation while he entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Xia Ping concealed his real aim from Emma: he wanted the Sound Pattern Stone and intended to leave the Illusion Race once he obtained it.

Emma's lottery selling planets brought in huge sums and deepened Minerva's hatred of Xia Ping. While staying in Lawrence Family territory, Xia Ping studied the Illusion Race's secret arts, gained new abilities, and grew closer to the lightning tribulation.

• Emma's lottery sold out its first billion tickets almost immediately, and sales of the next three thousand planets proceeded steadily.
• Minerva learned of the lottery, grew furious, and annihilated several people who provoked him, further deepening his hatred for Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping entered the Lawrence Family library with Emma's help and Sophia's approval, recording the Illusion Race's secret arts.
• Xia Ping mastered Illusion Art Seventy-Two Transformations and used it to gain greater control over his body.
• Xia Ping learned Grand Void Limitless Three Thousand Clones and Myriad Nightmare Art, and studied the Illusion Race's formations.
• As Xia Ping studied, his mana surged and he drew closer to the peak of the Lightning Tribulation Realm and the coming lightning tribulation.

After studying the Illusion Race’s secret arts, Xia Ping received a chance to compete for the treasure vault guard position by hunting demons. He joined the trial assembly and recognized his enemy Jacob among the examiners, leaving him wary of a possible trap.

• Xia Ping spent more than a month studying Illusion Race secret arts while his cultivation advanced naturally.
• Emma told Xia Ping that Sophia had secured him a chance to compete for the treasure vault guard position, which required killing ten Return to Truth Realm demons or one Dharma Image Realm demon.
• Xia Ping learned that the trial would begin the next day and assemble at the Mission Hall.
• Xia Ping arrived at the plaza and saw that his rival Keli had also reached the Return to Truth Realm as other warriors discussed Xia Ping and his wealth.
• Jacob, the Mission Hall supervisor, arrived with two Lightning Tribulation Realm examiners, and Xia Ping suspected the trial might be a conspiracy against him.

Xia Ping was forced to join the treasury guard assessment in the Abyss World despite trying to withdraw. After the other candidates scattered, Jacob, Keli, and their allies surrounded him, and Xia Ping warned them that harming him would bring Sophia’s wrath.

• Jacob announced that candidates had to kill enough Abyss Demons on the Abyss Continent within ten days to pass the treasury guard assessment.
• Xia Ping tried to postpone the assessment and then withdraw, but Jacob refused and activated the teleportation array.
• The candidates arrived in the Abyss World, where Jacob explained how to use their marks to return to the Illusion World from a safe location.
• The candidates flew off to hunt Abyss Demons, while Jacob, Keli, and more than a dozen cultivators surrounded Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping calmly warned the group against harming him and invoked Sophia, head of the Lawrence Family, as his patron.

Jacob and Keli tried to force Xia Ping to act as bait for Abyss Demons, hoping to kill him while completing their mission. Xia Ping escaped their attack by using the Illusion Race’s Grand Void Limitless Three Thousand Clones, leaving Jacob and the others stunned.

• Jacob revealed that Saint Minerva wanted Xia Ping dead and ordered him to release his aura to lure Abyss Demons for Keli’s mission.
• Xia Ping activated the Saint-grade talisman Sophia had given him, but Keli blocked its attack with a Great Turtle Shell Talisman.
• Jacob and Keli threatened Xia Ping after his talisman’s power was spent.
• Xia Ping used Grand Void Limitless Three Thousand Clones to create three thousand convincing copies of himself.
• Jacob, Keli, and the other Lightning Tribulation Realm experts recognized the rare Illusion Race escape ability and reacted with disbelief and envy.

Bati escaped Jacob and Keli by unleashing the Grand Void Limitless Three Thousand Clones, but Minerva Saint gave Jacob a golden talisman to track and kill him. At Lawrence Castle, Sophia Saint dismissed Emma’s concerns, believing Bati dead and accepting that their relationship would turn hostile if he survived.

• Bati fled in three thousand clones, leaving Jacob and the others unable to tell which ones were real or pursue him.
• Minerva Saint rebuked Jacob and the others, revealed he had placed an aura lock on Bati, and gave Jacob a golden talisman to track him.
• Jacob ordered Keli and the others to hunt Bati down and kill him before they faced Minerva Saint’s punishment.
• Emma questioned Sophia Saint about sending Bati into a deadly trial, and Sophia admitted she had treated his life as the price to appease Minerva.
• Sophia said she sensed that her talisman linked to Bati had vanished and assumed he was dead, but accepted that he could live if Minerva’s plan failed.

Xia Ping, still disguised as Bati, faced Jacob and the others after they cornered him, then killed Jacob with a single punch. The survivors realized an impostor had infiltrated the Illusion World and fled to warn the Illusion Race.

• Xia Ping waited for Keli, Jacob, and the others to catch up, knowing Minerva Saint had marked him and that Sophia had stopped watching him.
• Jacob and Keli confronted Xia Ping, and Jacob revealed his hatred over being humiliated into eating filth and vowed to kill him.
• Xia Ping punched Jacob, shattering his body and annihilating his Primordial Spirit.
• Keli and the other elders recognized that Xia Ping could not be the real Bati and feared an outsider had infiltrated the Illusion World.
• A Lightning Tribulation Realm elder ordered the others to retreat and warn the ancestor about the enemy infiltrator.

Xia Ping killed Keli and the assessment participants, then survived a Lightning Tribulation Realm elder’s self-destruction, which drew a huge Abyss Demon army to him. He trapped the demons in the Illusion Race’s Myriad Nightmare Art and watched them slaughter one another before a furious voice challenged him.

• Xia Ping killed a Lightning Tribulation Realm elder with a punch and shattered Keli and the other assessment participants with his next attack.
• A remaining elder self-destructed, razing the surrounding area, while Xia Ping escaped into the Mountain River Bead’s space.
• The explosion drew hundreds of millions of Abyss Demons, and Xia Ping stood his ground as they surrounded him.
• Xia Ping used the Myriad Nightmare Art to plunge the demon army into illusions, causing the demons to attack and kill one another.
• A furious voice accused Xia Ping of using underhanded tricks to slaughter the demon army and threatened him.

Xia Ping destroyed most of an Abyss Demons army, then fought an immortal demon who accused him of violating the Abyss Covenant. He killed the demon with one strike of the Golden Slime transformed into a sword, leaving the Illusion Race’s alleged pact with the Abyss unexplained.

• Xia Ping’s Myriad Nightmare Art killed more than half of the Abyss Demons before an immortal demon shattered the nightmare barrier and confronted him about the Abyss Covenant.
• The black-robed demon suspected Xia Ping was an Illusion Race immortal and attacked him with Nine Abyss Devil Lightning after realizing Xia Ping knew nothing of the covenant.
• Xia Ping used the Golden Slime as a greatsword and formed the Body of Earth to withstand the demon’s attack.
• Xia Ping’s single sword strike split the lightning, cleaved the immortal demon and its Primordial Spirit, and slaughtered nearly all the remaining Abyss Demons.
• Xia Ping marveled at the Golden Slime’s power after leaving the immortal demon grievously wounded and near death.

Xia Ping subdued a black Immortal Demon and learned that the Abyss World had made the Illusion Race its vassal through an ancient pact. He resolved to warn humanity and remained in the Abyss World to hunt demons while the trial continued.

• Xia Ping gathered the defeated Abyss Demons’ flesh for the World Tree and questioned the injured black Immortal Demon about the Abyss Pact.
• Xia Ping used the World Tree’s roots to bind the demon and force it to reveal that the Illusion Race had agreed to aid a future Abyss invasion in exchange for power and resources.
• The black Immortal Demon explained that an Abyss peak Demon had corrupted an Illusion Race ancestor, and that many Illusion Race Saints had since been assimilated.
• Xia Ping suspected Minerva might carry Abyss aura and decided humanity’s leaders needed to learn of the Illusion Race’s betrayal.
• Because the trial still had about ten days remaining, Xia Ping flew deeper into the Abyss Continent to hunt Immortal Demons and gather strength.

Xia Ping infiltrated a city on Abyss Continent and overheard eight immortal Abyss Demons discussing Logan’s disappearance. They blamed the Illusion Race and planned to corrupt and control the entire race.

• Xia Ping approached a vast city on Abyss Continent, where billions of powerful Abyss Demons lived under an organized regime.
• Xia Ping sensed an immortal demon’s presence, concealed himself with the Formless Mask, and entered an ancient Castle unnoticed.
• Eight immortal Abyss Demons discussed Logan’s vanished aura and the disappearance of an army of several hundred million demons.
• The immortal demons suspected the Illusion Race Saints but admitted they had no proof of their involvement.
• The immortal demons decided to use Logan’s disappearance as an excuse to corrupt the entire Illusion Race and bring it under their control.

Xia Ping ambushed eight immortal demons in their Castle to stop their plan to corrupt the Illusion Race and strengthen the Abyss World. He killed Dilan with one sword, then faced the seven survivors as they unleashed their attacks and destroyed the Castle.

• Xia Ping listened as the immortal demons agreed to report their plan to corrupt the Illusion Race to their general and push it forward at once.
• Xia Ping seized the moment and struck the eight immortal demons with his Golden Slime greatsword, killing Dilan in a single blow.
• The other seven immortal demons attacked Xia Ping with their signature abilities, obliterating the Castle and killing the nearby demon soldiers.
• Xia Ping stood firm with his Body of Earth and counterattacked the seven immortal demons.

Xia Ping killed the eight Immortal Demons in Demon City with the Golden Greatsword, then faced an Early Ancient Saint who struck back with the Heaven-Shrouding Demonic Hand. He escaped with the demons’ corpses, but the attack obliterated Demon City and everyone in it.

• Xia Ping unleashed Earthquake with the Golden Greatsword, destroying the seven Immortal Demons’ attacks.
• Xia Ping beheaded the seven Immortal Demons and destroyed their souls, having already killed the strongest of the eight.
• Xia Ping collected the eight demons’ corpses, planning to refine them into Immortal Fruits.
• An enraged Early Ancient Saint attacked Xia Ping with the Heaven-Shrouding Demonic Hand.
• Xia Ping split into three thousand clones, took the corpses into the Mountain River Bead, and escaped with the Kunpeng Step.
• The Early Ancient Saint’s strike reduced Demon City and its inhabitants to dust.