Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping used the Curse Black Coffin’s aura to ambush Minerva and four other Early Ancient Saints while Minerva pressured Sophia to accept his proposal. The curse erupted inside the Saints, and they realized it came from the Curse Black Coffin, but the attacker remained hidden.

• Green Ox and Cat Immortal suggested that Xia Ping use the Curse Black Coffin’s curse aura against the five wounded Early Ancient Saints.
• Xia Ping drew out curse aura, sealed it in Hell Golden Crow runes, and sent the runes through the void toward the Saints.
• Minerva gave Sophia an hour to answer him and threatened to force her if she refused.
• The curse-laden runes entered the five Saints’ bodies and began destroying their Laws of Space, bodies, and souls.
• A Saint in green robes recognized the curse as coming from the Curse Black Coffin and demanded to know who had attacked them.

Xia Ping’s curse power killed the black-robed saint and forced Minerva, Sophia, and the other Illusion Race saints to abandon their bodies and escape as souls. As the blue-robed saint regenerated, Xia Ping ambushed him with the Spear of Hell and killed him.

• The curse power consumed the black-robed saint’s flesh and soul, leaving cursed bones that spread corruption across the land.
• The blue-robed saint self-destructed his body to escape the curse, then used the universe’s origin power to regenerate.
• Minerva, Sophia, and the other saints also abandoned and destroyed their bodies to rid themselves of the curse.
• Xia Ping attacked the weakened blue-robed saint from the shadows with the Spear of Hell’s fourth form, Destruction.
• The spear’s destructive power obliterated the blue-robed saint’s body and soul.

Xia Ping revealed himself as Wu Wudi after killing a blue-clad Ancient Saint, and his control over the Spear of Hell and understanding of spatial laws improved. Minerva attacked him with the Myriad Star Hand, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xia Ping killed the blue-clad Saint with a full-strength spear thrust and gained a firmer grasp of the Spear of Hell and spatial laws.
• Sophia and Minerva recognized that the attacker was not Bati, and Xia Ping admitted he had captured the real Bati and infiltrated the Illusion Race as Wu Wudi.
• The red-robed Saint questioned how Wu Wudi had bypassed the Illusion Race's inspections, but Xia Ping refused to explain.
• Minerva unleashed the Myriad Star Hand, crushing layers of space and sending a mass of stellar power crashing toward Xia Ping.

Xia Ping overwhelmed Minerva despite Minerva’s mastery of spatial laws, then faced a red-robed Saint’s attack with the Red Dragon Scepter. As the scepter’s red dragon descended, Xia Ping prepared to counter with the Golden Greatsword, strengthened by the earth beneath him.

• Xia Ping unleashed his Hell Golden Crow Claw and shattered Minerva’s Myriad Star Hand, sending the Early Ancient Saint flying and coughing up blood.
• Minerva was shocked that Xia Ping’s mana could surpass his own despite Xia Ping being only an Immortal Saint.
• Another red-robed Saint dismissed Xia Ping’s strength and attacked him with the mid-grade Saint Artifact, the Red Dragon Scepter.
• The red-robed Saint summoned a destructive red dragon formed from the scepter’s power and the Dragon dimension’s origin energy.
• Xia Ping summoned the Golden Slime as a Golden Greatsword and drew strength from the earth as he prepared to fight back.

Xia Ping used the Golden Greatsword to overwhelm the red-robed saint, whose desperate attacks and spatial defenses could not withstand the sword’s power. After Minerva and Sophia tried to intervene, Xia Ping killed the red-robed saint and destroyed his soul.

• Xia Ping’s Golden Greatsword cut apart the red-robed saint’s crimson dragon attack.
• The red-robed saint burned his cosmic origin to unleash Crimson Dragon’s Wrath, but Xia Ping crushed it with a strike powered by vibration and earth laws.
• Xia Ping slashed at the red-robed saint, and Minerva and Sophia raised spatial barriers to protect him.
• The red-robed saint layered spatial barriers around himself, but Xia Ping’s sword cut through them and split his body and soul in two.

Xia Ping killed the red-robed saint and collected his treasures, prompting Minerva to attack him with the Salvation Divine Blade. Xia Ping used the Golden Greatsword's earth-law power to withstand Minerva's assault, leaving Minerva enraged that his high-grade sacred artifact could not break through.

• Xia Ping killed the red-robed saint and took the Red Dragon Scepter and the saint's flesh and blood.
• Minerva drew the high-grade sacred artifact Salvation Divine Blade and attacked Xia Ping with hundreds of millions of blade energies.
• Sophia recognized Minerva's strength and watched for a chance to intervene, but the blade attack left her unable to approach.
• The Golden Greatsword drew on the Golden Slime's earth-law power, and Xia Ping formed a barrier that stopped Minerva's attack.
• Minerva failed to breach Xia Ping's defense and raged at him for possessing a powerful defensive sacred artifact.

Minerva and Sophia tried to destroy five Saint Artifacts to kill Xia Ping, but he used the Samsara Pen to suppress them and turn the attack against Minerva. Minerva was killed, while Sophia remained alive.

• Sophia urged Minerva to retreat because they were injured and could not kill Xia Ping.
• Minerva refused to flee and brought out three Saint Artifacts, while Sophia summoned two more to self-destruct against Xia Ping.
• Minerva sealed the surrounding space and launched the five Saint Artifacts at Xia Ping as Green Ox and Cat Immortal warned him to be careful.
• Xia Ping produced the Samsara Pen, freezing the area and preventing the Saint Artifacts from self-destructing.
• Xia Ping severed Minerva and Sophia's connections to their Saint Artifacts, then struck Minerva with the Samsara Pen and killed him.

After killing the other four Early Ancient Saints of the Illusion Race, Xia Ping offered Sophia life in exchange for accepting his Soul Seal. Sophia agreed to protect the surviving members of her clan, and Xia Ping enslaved her and prepared to take her into the Mountain River Bead.

• Sophia saw that Minerva had been killed by Xia Ping and realized the Illusion Race had lost four of its five Early Ancient Saints.
• Xia Ping offered Sophia a choice between death and submitting to his Soul Seal.
• Sophia agreed to submit if Xia Ping spared the surviving Lawrence Family members hidden in her spatial artifact.
• Xia Ping agreed to take Sophia and her surviving clanswomen as subordinates, warning them against betrayal.
• Xia Ping implanted the Soul Seal in Sophia, which made her completely loyal to him.
• Xia Ping told Sophia to enter the Mountain River Bead's space.

Across the universe, people celebrated the Illusion Race’s destruction and discussed humanity’s power and the Demon Suppression Tower. They learned Wu Wudi had supplied intelligence that helped bring down the Illusion Race, then looted its treasury, and factions began hunting for him and his treasures.

• People across the universe celebrated the Illusion Race’s extermination and recalled its long history of crimes.
• Speakers discussed how humanity had suppressed Olasge and other Illusion Race saints in the Demon Suppression Tower, which grew stronger by imprisoning criminals.
• A rumor spread that Wu Wudi had provided the humans with intelligence to provoke a war between them and the Illusion Race.
• People learned Wu Wudi had used the battle to loot the Illusion Race treasury, leaving it completely empty.
• Factions across the universe began searching for Wu Wudi, hoping to kill him and seize his treasure.

Major powers across the universe discussed Wu Wudi’s possession of the Curse Black Coffin and resolved that the dangerous treasure should not remain in his hands. In the Abyss World, the demons blamed Wu Wudi for the Illusion Race’s destruction and ordered their forces to find and kill him, while recovering the coffin.

• Saints discussed how Wu Wudi had gained the most from the extermination campaign and warned that he had taken the Illusion Race’s Curse Black Coffin, a weapon capable of killing invincible Saints.
• The Saints agreed to locate Wu Wudi and seize the Curse Black Coffin so they could control its threat.
• Abyss Demons mourned the Illusion Race’s destruction and acknowledged that their leaders had withheld aid to avoid falling into the human race’s trap.
• The Abyss Demons blamed Wu Wudi for exposing the Illusion Race and sabotaging their plans, citing his earlier attacks on Abyss altars as well.
• The Abyss Demons ordered their forces to find and kill Wu Wudi and recover the Curse Black Coffin.

Xia Ping brought Sophia and the surviving Lawrence Family members into the Mountain River Bead space, where he placed them under his control and arranged a home for them. Sophia ordered her descendants to serve Wu Wudi, then left to recover from her injuries.

• Xia Ping assured Green Ox that Sophia could not threaten the Mountain River Bead space because his Soul Seal controlled her.
• Xia Ping told Green Ox to house Sophia and her Illusion Race companions, then entered seclusion.
• Green Ox built a small city in a valley for Sophia and the Illusion Race survivors.
• Sophia released the Lawrence Family women from her spatial treasure and told Emma and the others that she had acknowledged Wu Wudi as her Lord.
• Emma and the others agreed to obey Wu Wudi, while Sophia left to recuperate from her severe injuries.

Xia Ping cultivated with the Longevity Pills he had plundered from the Illusion Race, rapidly increasing his mana and breaking through to the mid-stage Immortal Realm. His divine sense then reached across twenty light-years and gave him a first glimpse of the essence of space.

• Xia Ping learned that the hatred he had provoked earned him 370 Hate Crystals, bringing his total to 970 and leaving him eager to reach the system's 1,000-crystal gift pack.
• Xia Ping swallowed Longevity Pills from the Illusion Race's treasury and refined them with his Sun Furnace into life energy and cosmic origin energy.
• Xia Ping consumed more than 1,000 Longevity Pills, gaining an enormous amount of mana and breaking through to the mid-stage Immortal Realm.
• Xia Ping's nine purple mansion spaces doubled in size, his mana capacity increased more than ninefold, and his divine sense expanded to twenty light-years.
• Xia Ping sensed dimensional spaces and a faint trace of the essence of space, foreseeing that fully comprehending it would greatly increase his strength.

Xia Ping consolidated his mid-stage Immortal Realm cultivation while the Golden Slime absorbed six cosmic gems and transformed into a high-grade sacred artifact. The newly sentient Little Gold took human form, and Xia Ping discovered the powerful abilities she had gained.

• Xia Ping stabilized his cultivation after reaching the mid-stage Immortal Realm, awakening a total of eight billion Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Little Gold finished digesting the six cosmic gems and began evolving beyond the peak of the middle-grade sacred artifact level.
• Xia Ping saw the cosmic laws within Little Gold merge as she broke through to become a high-grade sacred artifact.
• Little Gold transformed from a bracelet into a jeweled little girl and called Xia Ping her master.
• Xia Ping received information about Little Gold's new abilities, including soul devouring, lightning attacks, absolute space, and authority over the sea.

Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu complained about Xia Ping’s rules and their lack of money at school. After Chong Xiaoqian collided with the newly arrived Little Gold, Little Gold offered her an emerald, then produced a huge pile of gemstones when Chong Xiaoqian angrily refused it.

• Tan Menglu and Chong Xiaoqian discussed how they might resist Xia Ping’s control, complaining about school, homework, and their meager pocket money.
• Chong Xiaoqian walked into the classroom doorway and collided with someone, then looked up to find Little Gold standing there.
• Little Gold apologized and offered Chong Xiaoqian a valuable emerald as compensation.
• Chong Xiaoqian rejected the emerald and snapped at Little Gold for flaunting her wealth.
• Little Gold misunderstood and summoned a mountain of gemstones, leaving Chong Xiaoqian, Tan Menglu, and the class stunned.

After Little Gold gave Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu a pile of gemstones, the two befriended her and recruited her to play King's Supremacy. The chapter ended with Little Gold discovering an Explosion Scroll shop item while Chong Xiaoqian lectured her about the game's difficulty.

• Tan Menglu eagerly threw herself onto Little Gold's gemstones, and Chong Xiaoqian accepted them as tribute and forgave her.
• Tan Menglu promised to protect Little Gold at school, while Chong Xiaoqian offered to make her Minister of Finance in her kingdom.
• Tan Menglu invited Little Gold to play King's Supremacy, and Chong Xiaoqian warned her that mastering the game required talent and practice.
• Tan Menglu took Little Gold and Chong Xiaoqian to the teaching building rooftop to skip class and helped Little Gold enter the Virtual World.
• Little Gold struggled to fight monsters, and Chong Xiaoqian explained the game's combat techniques and claimed she had needed two weeks to leave Novice Village.
• Little Gold found a shop selling an Explosion Scroll that could wipe out a group of monsters and help her level up quickly.

Little Gold used a Universal Bank Black Card to buy powerful game items, rapidly clearing the Novice Village and leveling beyond it while Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu watched in disbelief. After warning that the game would become more dangerous outside the village, Chong Xiaoqian saw Little Gold continue spending to overpower monsters and reach level twenty.

• Chong Xiaoqian warned Little Gold that the shop was a costly trap, but Little Gold used Explosion Scrolls to destroy the Novice Village valley's monsters and reach its level cap.
• Little Gold revealed that she had bought a thousand Explosion Scrolls with the Universal Bank Black Card the Lord had given her.
• Tan Menglu explained that the Black Card could draw up to one hundred billion Universal Coins, while Chong Xiaoqian warned that the game became harder and players could attack each other after leaving the Novice Village.
• Little Gold bought powerful equipment from the shop and killed monsters with ease, quickly reaching level twenty.
• Little Gold used Tenfold Experience and Tenfold Money Cards to accelerate her gains, leaving Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu speechless.

After Little Gold effortlessly surpassed Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu in a game by spending heavily on experience boosts, equipment, and mercenaries, the two girls lost their enthusiasm for playing. They vowed to avoid gaming with her again.

• Little Gold left school satisfied after enjoying the game and said she would return the next day.
• Chong Xiaoqian lamented that Little Gold had caught up to their levels in one day despite their months of effort, while Tan Menglu explained that paid boosts and equipment made it possible.
• Chong Xiaoqian described how Little Gold killed Shadow Wolf’s leader and guild members with a few slashes, causing their hard-earned equipment to drop.
• Chong Xiaoqian lost interest in the game, and Tan Menglu blamed Xia Ping for sending Little Gold to cure their gaming addiction.
• Chong Xiaoqian and Tan Menglu decided they would never play games with Little Gold again.

Xia Ping traveled with Treant Race Elder Rich to Tree World after Rich finally located it. There, Xia Ping discovered that the ancient living world had been badly damaged and was being drained by a sinister force.

• Ruth told Xia Ping that Treant Race Elder Rich had found Tree World's location after months of searching.
• Treant Race Elder Rich explained that Tree World had been wandering, possibly to escape enemies, and Xia Ping agreed to take him there aboard the Star Ship.
• After a day of travel, the Star Ship reached Tree World's location three hundred million light-years away.
• Xia Ping saw Tree World’s immense tree-like form and sensed that the World Tree in his sea of consciousness wanted to devour it.
• Xia Ping detected severe damage and a deathly force draining Tree World, and Rich used its power to carry them inside.

Rich returned to Tree World with Xia Ping and told the Treant Race elders that the human could heal the Sacred Tree’s injuries. Great Elder Cecil felt an unusual threat from Xia Ping, while Chief Fred openly doubted Rich’s claim.

• Xia Ping and Rich arrived in Tree World, where Treant Race soldiers surrounded them until Rich revealed his identity.
• Rich summoned an elder-level meeting, and a Treant captain sent word to the clan chief and elders.
• Great Elder Cecil arrived and sensed that the Immortal Realm Xia Ping might pose a threat to him.
• Rich introduced Xia Ping as an honored guest who could heal the Sacred Tree, prompting excitement and skepticism among the Treants.
• Chief Fred challenged Rich’s claim and questioned whether Xia Ping could heal the Sacred Tree.

Xia Ping exposed Chief Fred as a monster disguised as a treant after Fred tried to stop him from approaching the sacred tree. Fred attacked with his Blood-Devouring Jungle, but Xia Ping destroyed it with one punch and blasted Fred apart, leaving a black insect emerging from his head to escape.

• Elder Rich defended Xia Ping’s chance to cure the sacred tree, while Chief Fred accused him of being a deceitful human and threatened him.
• Xia Ping questioned whether Fred was truly a treant and said he could see a monster hidden beneath Fred’s disguise.
• Fred cut Xia Ping off and attacked with his Blood-Devouring Jungle, unleashing branches that could devour flesh and souls.
• Xia Ping struck Fred with the Yang God Fist, incinerating the jungle and blasting Fred’s body apart.
• A black insect emerged from Fred’s head and tried to flee into the void.