Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping was accused of stealing the treasury’s Water Moon Pearl after guards searched his courtyard and planted the treasure there. Deputy Hall Master Fenn backed their accusation, leaving Xia Ping framed as the culprit.

• Xia Ping waited in his courtyard while the Human Race’s Saint Dao Discussion Conference continued.
• Deputy Hall Master Fenn and several dozen treasury guards arrived and demanded to search Xia Ping’s room over a stolen treasure.
• The guards ransacked Xia Ping’s courtyard and claimed they had found the Water Moon Pearl.
• Xia Ping said the guard captain had planted the pearl and framed him.
• Fenn claimed he had witnessed everything and declared Xia Ping the thief.

Xia Ping faced Immortal Saint Fenn’s threats over the alleged theft of the Water Moon Pearl, but a sudden attack on the Illusion World interrupted their confrontation. As the Illusion Race’s Doomsday Bell sounded and the human Saints besieged their world, Xia Ping welcomed the chaos as his chance to act.

• Fenn accused Xia Ping of stealing the Water Moon Pearl and threatened to cripple him and imprison him or kill him if he resisted.
• Xia Ping suspected the Leinster Family had orchestrated the frame-up and privately prepared to fight Fenn or flee if necessary.
• A violent tremor struck the Illusion World, and Fenn sensed it was surrounded by a powerful force and void restrictions.
• The Illusion Race’s Doomsday Bell rang for the fourth time, and the guards realized countless Saints were attacking their world.
• Xia Ping recognized that the human Saints had finally launched their assault and was excited to exploit the resulting chaos.

The Human Patriarchs launched a campaign to exterminate the Illusion Race after accusing it of colluding with the Abyss Demons. The Illusion Race Saints gathered to fight back, trapped inside their world as the human forces closed in.

• Illusion Race Patriarchs learned that human Saints had sealed the Illusion World and ordered their Saints to fight their way out.
• At a discourse assembly, Carefree Patriarch and Void Patriarch prepared a secret attack, with Beiming Patriarch leading the human forces.
• Void Patriarch sealed the assembly's space and time to prevent news of the operation from leaking.
• Carefree Patriarch announced the plan to destroy the Illusion Race and accused it of joining the Abyss Demons.
• Saints from other races agreed to help attack the Illusion Race, calling it an enemy of all races.

Void Patriarch brought the human Saints to the Illusion World aboard the Spacetime Ark, and the human race sealed it with the Ten Worlds Tower to prevent the Illusion Race from escaping. North Nether Saint’s attack drew out the Illusion Race Saints, and the battle began.

• Void Patriarch summoned the Spacetime Ark and transported the Saints to the Illusion World.
• Carefree Patriarch ordered the Saints to seal the void, and ten Primordial Ancient Saints activated the Ten Worlds Tower to trap the Illusion World.
• North Nether Saint struck the Illusion World with a giant hand, nearly crushing it and provoking its Saints.
• North Nether Saint killed an Illusion Race Saint with one punch, and the gathered Saints charged into battle.

Xia Ping revealed himself as an Immortal Saint and killed Immortal Saint Fenn before Fenn could alert the other Illusion Race Saints. He left the treasury courtyard having demonstrated that his power no longer depended on powerful magic treasures.

• Fenn asked what to do as the Illusion Race faced a human invasion, and Xia Ping confronted him over his earlier threats.
• Fenn tried to kill Xia Ping, but Xia Ping unleashed his Spiritual Domain and killed the Illusion Race guards nearby.
• Fenn recognized Xia Ping as an Immortal Saint in disguise and tried to escape to warn the other Saints.
• Xia Ping struck Fenn with the Yang God Fist, breaking through his Starry Sky Body Protection Technique.
• Hell Golden Crow Flame burned Fenn’s body and soul to nothing, and Xia Ping celebrated his strength.

Xia Ping killed Fenn and confronted the Treasure Vault Outer Hall’s leaders, who mistook him for an accomplice in the human invasion of the Illusion World. After he overwhelmed their forces, he left the outer hall’s leadership dead and the hall in ruins.

• Jonas and three deputy hall masters arrived and saw Xia Ping kill Fenn, then accused him of aiding the human invasion.
• Jonas attacked Xia Ping with his Five Elements Demon-Exterminating Divine Thunder, but Xia Ping crushed the attack and struck Jonas down with the Great Yin-Yang Tablet-Shattering Hand.
• The three deputy hall masters fled and called for the clan elders to surround Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping summoned the Chaos Bell and sent sound waves across the Treasure Vault Outer Hall, shattering the three deputy hall masters’ bodies, souls, and True Spirits.

Xia Ping took advantage of the Illusion Race Saints leaving the treasure vault and broke into its outer hall without triggering the defenses. He began transferring its enormous stores of pills and artifact materials into the Mountain River Bead.

• Xia Ping confirmed that the treasure vault was nearly unguarded after the Illusion Race Saints went to repel the human attack.
• Xia Ping knocked out the outer hall guards with his Spiritual Domain and inspected the vault’s restriction formations.
• Xia Ping summoned the Golden Slime, which silently corroded a hole through the outer hall gate.
• Xia Ping entered the vast outer hall and discovered its huge stores of pills, cosmic ores, and other treasures.
• Xia Ping moved every treasure he found into the Mountain River Bead.

Xia Ping looted the Illusion Race’s Treasure Vault Outer Hall, left a mocking promise to repay the treasures, and entered the Inner Hall in search of Sound Pattern Stones. A Time Stasis formation trapped him, but the Samsara Pen broke its laws, allowing him to destroy the inner hall’s restriction arrays.

• Xia Ping emptied the Treasure Vault Outer Hall and wrote an inscription claiming he had only borrowed its treasures and would repay them someday, signing it Wu Wudi.
• Xia Ping flew to the unguarded Treasure Vault Inner Hall and ordered the Golden Slime to devour its gates.
• The inner hall’s layered restriction formations activated and froze Xia Ping in time.
• The Samsara Pen emerged and shattered the cosmic laws holding Xia Ping, freeing him from the Time Stasis formation.
• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to locate the formations’ weak points and destroyed the restriction arrays with the Samsara Pen.

Xia Ping broke into the Illusion Race treasury’s inner hall and discovered an immense stockpile of Longevity Pills and rare materials. After looting the pills, he began collecting Sound Pattern Stones and other cosmic gemstones.

• Xia Ping entered the inner hall after breaking its defensive restriction array without triggering its warning array.
• Green Ox and Cat Immortal explained that the Illusion Race’s Mirage Mist Pearl could draw vast quantities of origin energy to produce Longevity Pills.
• Xia Ping gathered the treasury’s tens of billions of Longevity Pills into his Mountain River Bead.
• Cat Immortal led Xia Ping to another area containing rare materials, including mountains of Sound Pattern Stones.
• Green Ox spotted countless universe-grade gemstones among the Illusion Race’s treasures.

Xia Ping collected cosmic gemstones and artifact materials from the Illusion Race's treasure vault, while the Golden Slime devoured the gemstones and gained new powers. He also uprooted the vault's sacred herbs into the Mountain River Bead space, but found no sacred artifacts.

• Xia Ping identified the Life Stone, Soul Stone, Thunder God Stone, Heavenly Crystal Stone, Matter God Stone, and Sea-Calming Stone and explained their powers.
• The Golden Slime swallowed all the cosmic gemstones before Green Ox could stop it, transforming into a Golden Greatsword and then a gemstone-studded bracelet.
• Xia Ping collected the remaining artifact-forging materials and discovered eight hundred sacred herbs, each with at least ten million years of medicinal potency.
• The sacred herbs panicked and tried to flee, but Xia Ping uprooted them with the surrounding soil and moved them into the Mountain River Bead space.
• Green Ox went to confine the herbs, while Xia Ping searched the vault and found no sacred artifacts.

Xia Ping discovered a sealed void hidden in the Illusion Race treasury and encountered the Curse Black Coffin within it. After its curse nearly killed him, his Hell Golden Crow fire burned it away and awakened one hundred million Hell Golden Crow Cells, while the system identified the coffin as an immensely dangerous innate magic treasure.

• Xia Ping sensed a hidden space in the treasury and used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to see through its restrictions.
• Xia Ping found a chained black coffin in the void and had his divine sense swallowed by its deadly curse.
• The curse invaded Xia Ping’s body, but he summoned Hell Golden Crow fire and burned it away.
• The near-death struggle awakened one hundred million Hell Golden Crow Cells and increased Xia Ping’s strength.
• The system identified the object as the Curse Black Coffin, an innate magic treasure whose released curse could devastate the universe.

Xia Ping discovered that the Illusion Race's Curse Black Coffin could unleash a cataclysmic curse and decided to take it before the Illusion Race could use it against humanity. He exchanged one hundred Hate Crystals for a Genesis Sphere and sealed the coffin inside it, where it could not break free.

• Xia Ping realized the Curse Black Coffin was the Illusion Race's devastating trump card and worried it could kill many Human Saints.
• He examined the coffin's Saint-grade talismans and saw that its curse was eroding them, threatening to break the seal.
• Xia Ping asked the system how to take the coffin safely and learned that a Genesis Sphere could contain it for one hundred Hate Crystals.
• After ruling out refining the coffin himself, Xia Ping exchanged for a Genesis Sphere and sent it into the space around the coffin.
• The Genesis Sphere swallowed the Curse Black Coffin, and the coffin's cursed power failed to break through its barrier.

Xia Ping sealed the Curse Black Coffin inside the Genesis Sphere, then hid in the Illusion World when its spacetime barrier prevented him from leaving. Watching the war from concealment, he saw the Human Race gaining the advantage as Olasge and the Illusion Race’s strongest Saints prepared a desperate strike against North Nether Saint so they could escape.

• Xia Ping sealed the Curse Black Coffin inside the Genesis Sphere and stored it in the Mountain River Bead.
• Xia Ping discovered that the Illusion World’s spacetime had been sealed, so he concealed himself there and used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to observe the war.
• Xia Ping saw North Nether Saint hold off Olasge and eight Primordial Ancient Saints while the Human Race and its allies overwhelmed the Illusion Race.
• Olasge recognized that North Nether Saint was holding back the Illusion Race’s strongest fighters while their other Saints were being killed.
• Olasge ordered the eight Primordial Ancient Saints to strike North Nether Saint all at once, then flee using the Mirage Mist Pearl.

Olasge revealed that he had become an abyssal creature and attacked North Nether Saint with overwhelming demonic qi. After North Nether Saint’s sword formation devastated the Illusion Race forces, Olasge used the Mirage Mist Pearl to escape with eight wounded Primordial Ancient Saints.

• Carefree Patriarch, Void Patriarch, and the other Saints worried that Olasge was concealing a trump card and that the Abyss Demons might still intervene.
• Olasge revealed his abyssal corruption and charged North Nether Saint, unleashing Heaven-Devouring, Earth-Eroding Swastika Demonic Qi.
• The demonic qi devoured Saints caught in its path, forcing the human Saints to retreat.
• North Nether Saint summoned the Four Seasons Godslaying Diagram, killing many Illusion Race Saints and injuring the eight Primordial Ancient Saints.
• Olasge invoked the Mirage Mist Pearl and fled with the eight wounded Primordial Ancient Saints.

Olasge and the Illusion Race Saints escaped into their treasure vault and planned to unleash the Curse Black Coffin against the humans. They entered the vault’s inner hall to retrieve it, only to discover that every treasure had been stolen.

• North Nether Saint, Void Patriarch, and Carefree Patriarch searched for the missing Olasge, while Carefree Patriarch said the Ten Worlds Tower would find him soon.
• Olasge and the Illusion Race Saints used the Mirage Mist Pearl to flee into the Illusion World’s treasure vault.
• Olasge decided to release the Curse Black Coffin, despite the curse’s danger to the Illusion Race, and the other Saints agreed to help him.
• Olasge and the Saints entered the vault’s inner hall and found it completely empty, including the Spirit Herb Garden and its soil.
• The Illusion Race Saints accused an unknown thief of robbing them and vowed revenge.

The Illusion Race Saints discovered that Wu Wudi had stolen the Curse Black Coffin and emptied their treasury. They were left raging over his taunting message and vowed to track him down.

• Olasge sent a Primordial Ancient Saint to check the Curse Black Coffin, and the Saint confirmed it was gone.
• The Illusion Race Saints realized they had lost their ultimate trump card and feared they could no longer escape their predicament.
• A Saint discovered that the Treasure Vault Outer Hall had also been emptied and its hall masters killed.
• The Saints found Wu Wudi's message claiming he had borrowed their treasures and promising to return them someday.
• The furious Illusion Race Saints denounced Wu Wudi and called for him to be found and torn apart.

The Illusion Race Saints blamed Wu Wudi for revealing their location and causing their calamity, while the human Saints arrived at the treasure vault. After Carefree Patriarch falsely claimed responsibility for the raid, Olasge believed him and began self-destructing the Mirage Mist Pearl.

• The Illusion Race Saints recognized Wu Wudi and accused him of leaking their location so he could plunder their treasure vault.
• Olasge swore revenge on Wu Wudi, blaming him for the Illusion Race’s near-destruction.
• Carefree Patriarch, Void Patriarch, North Nether Saint, and other human Saints arrived at the Illusion Race treasure vault.
• Olasge accused the human race of sending Wu Wudi to steal the Illusion Race’s treasures, and Carefree Patriarch pretended the humans had arranged everything.
• Olasge drew out the Mirage Mist Pearl and began to self-destruct it, prompting Void Patriarch to order the Saints to retreat.

Olasge detonated the Mirage Mist Pearl, destroying the Illusion World and killing its ordinary inhabitants, but Void Patriarch saved the Human saints. Carefree Patriarch then used the Demon Suppression Tower to capture Olasge and the surviving Illusion Race saints, leaving them imprisoned forever.

• Olasge detonated the Mirage Mist Pearl, and Void Patriarch transported the Human saints outside the Illusion World.
• The explosion destroyed the Illusion World, shattered the Ten Worlds Tower, and killed many Illusion Race saints.
• Carefree Patriarch brought out the Demon Suppression Tower and froze time and space, exposing Olasge and the other fleeing Illusion Race saints.
• The Demon Suppression Tower drew Olasge and the surviving Illusion Race saints inside and permanently suppressed them.

After the human Saints suppressed Olasge and the Illusion Race leaders, Void Patriarch revealed that their stolen trump card was the catastrophic Curse Black Coffin. The Saints realized Wu Wudi had likely manipulated the conflict and taken the Illusion Race’s treasures, but they could not uncover his identity before they departed.

• The Saints discussed the Illusion Race survivors who had escaped when the Mirage Mist Pearl self-destructed and agreed they posed little threat.
• North Nether Saint asked Carefree Patriarch about his apparent role in the affair, and Carefree Patriarch admitted he had only been bluffing Olasge.
• Void Patriarch revealed that the Illusion Race’s trump card was the Curse Black Coffin, a secret treasure capable of killing all life across hundreds of millions of light-years.
• Void Patriarch accused Wu Wudi of leaking the Illusion Race’s location and exploiting the battle to steal its treasures, including the Curse Black Coffin.
• Carefree Patriarch and the other Saints discussed Wu Wudi’s unknown identity, then left the starry sky.

Minerva and a small group of Illusion Race survivors escaped to a refuge after the human attack devastated their people. Xia Ping secretly followed them and resolved to find a way to kill Minerva.

• Minerva, Sophia, and several Illusion Race Saints teleported to a remote refuge as the Mirage Mist Pearl shattered the Ten Worlds Tower's blockade.
• The surviving Saints mourned the destruction of their race and concluded that a powerful human had likely leaked their location.
• Minerva called for the survivors to unite under a leader, and the Saints acknowledged that he was the strongest among them.
• Minerva pressured Sophia to cultivate with him so he could use the pure yin power in her body to pursue greater strength, while Sophia reluctantly considered the race's survival.
• Xia Ping, disguised as a grain of sand, followed Minerva to the refuge, and he and Green Ox decided that Minerva had to be killed.