Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping exposed the Treant Race patriarch Fred as a Zerg Puppet Bug that had infiltrated the race and leaked its intelligence. Great Elder Cecil killed the bug, and the Treant Race thanked Xia Ping, though the Zerg army was still expected to arrive.

• Cecil trapped the black bug in a spatial cage, and the Treant Race elders recognized it as a Puppet Bug hiding inside Fred's corpse.
• Elder Rich explained that Fred had likely been killed during his earlier journey and replaced by the bug, which had betrayed the Treant Race to the Zerg.
• The Puppet Bug confirmed that it had infiltrated the Treant Race and warned that the Zerg army would soon arrive to destroy them.
• The Puppet Bug demanded to know how Xia Ping had discovered its identity, but Xia Ping refused to explain.
• Cecil killed the Puppet Bug, and the Treant Race elders thanked Xia Ping for exposing the traitor.

Xia Ping revealed that he carried the World Tree, whom the Treant elders worshipped as their Lord, and learned that the Void Banyan Tree was dying from a Wood-Eating Worm. The elders brought Xia Ping to the weakened Sacred Tree, hoping he could save it.

• Elder Rich told Grand Elder Cecil and the other elders that Xia Ping had contracted with The Lord, and Xia summoned a branch of the World Tree to prove it.
• Grand Elder Cecil and the elders recognized the World Tree's power and knelt before Xia Ping.
• Grand Elder Cecil explained that the Zerg had infected the Void Banyan Tree with a Wood-Eating Worm, which had been draining its soul and wood essence for billions of years.
• The elders said removing the worm would require destroying the Sacred Tree's soul, but believed the World Tree could overcome the worm and revive the tree if necessary.
• Grand Elder Cecil led Xia Ping to the heart of Tree World, where he saw the enormous, withered Void Banyan Tree.

A vast insect army led by three Early Ancient Saints advanced toward the Tree World to exterminate the Treant Race and avenge the slain Puppet Bug. Xia Ping discovered Wood-Eating Bugs consuming the Void Banyan Tree’s soul, and the system revealed that his Hell Golden Crow Fire could defeat them.

• Mosquito Daoist ordered the insect army to hurry toward the Tree World after learning that the Treant Race had killed the Puppet Bug.
• The insect army accelerated through space, consuming planets along its route.
• Xia Ping used the World Tree’s roots to enter the Void Banyan Tree’s soul space and found hundreds of Wood-Eating Bugs devouring its soul.
• The system told Xia Ping that his Hell Golden Crow Fire could kill the Wood-Eating Bugs without destroying the Void Banyan Tree.

Xia Ping used Hell Golden Crow Flame to kill the Wood-Eating Worms and restore the Void Banyan Tree. The Treant Race saw their Sacred Tree recover, while Xia Ping gained five million years of mana and awakened more Hell Golden Crow Cells.

• Xia Ping sent Hell Golden Crow Flame into the Void Banyan Tree, reviving its strength and terrifying the Wood-Eating Worms.
• The Hell Golden Crows burned the Wood-Eating Worms to ash while nourishing the Void Banyan Tree and repairing its soul.
• Xia Ping absorbed the Wood-Eating Worms' origin energy, gaining five million years of mana and awakening 8.5 billion Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• The Treant Race elders saw the Sacred Tree's flames restore its vitality and sensed that every Wood-Eating Worm had vanished.
• Elder Cecil realized Xia Ping had saved the Sacred Tree and concluded that his bond with the Lord could benefit the Treant Race.

Xia Ping formed a life contract with the recovering Void Banyan Tree, and the Treant Race swore allegiance to him. Before they could celebrate, an enormous insect race army surrounded the Tree World and sealed off every escape route.

• The Void Banyan Tree recovered some vitality, formed a life contract with Xia Ping, and strengthened the World Tree with its origin power.
• The Treant Race elders, led by Cecil, swore an oath of allegiance to Xia Ping.
• A Treant Race guard warned that the insect race army had arrived outside the Tree World.
• The elders discovered hundreds of millions of insect soldiers had surrounded the Tree World, sealed its escape routes, and brought at least three Early Ancient Saints.

Xia Ping assured Elder Cecil that he could defeat the approaching insect army, and the insects arrived to attack the Tree World. Mosquito Daoist’s Bloodsucking Sting battered the Tree World Barrier, but Cecil’s defenses held.

• Xia Ping told Cecil to distract the three Early Ancient Saints while he dealt with the insect army, and Cecil agreed to fight alongside him.
• Mosquito Daoist, Black Ant Daoist, and Locust True Lord discovered that the Wood-Eating Worms were gone and vowed to destroy the Treant Race.
• Mosquito Daoist attacked the Tree World with its Bloodsucking Sting, a mid-grade Saint Artifact.
• Cecil activated the Tree World’s formations, raising layers of barriers that withstood the Bloodsucking Sting despite severe damage to the world.

Cecil used the Tree World’s formations and the Void Banyan Tree’s roots to hold off the insect army, but Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord’s forces began tearing through the defenses. As the Tree World cracked and its barriers failed, Cecil pleaded with Lord Xia for help.

• Cecil’s sound attack killed swathes of insect soldiers, while Black Ant Daoist summoned immortal Heavenly Demon Ants to devour the Tree World’s barrier.
• Cecil activated the Treant Race’s formations and the Void Banyan Tree’s roots, holding Black Ant Daoist’s ants at bay.
• Mosquito Daoist urged Locust True Lord to join the assault, and Locust True Lord unleashed Disaster Locusts against the Tree World.
• The Disaster Locusts battered the barrier and shattered the Tree World’s formations, roots, and ground as treants panicked.
• Cecil told Lord Xia that he could no longer hold back the three Early Ancient Saints.

Xia Ping used the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art, strengthened with curse power from the Curse Black Coffin, to ambush Locust True Lord and Black Ant Daoist. Both Early Ancient Saints were struck and began suffering from the curse as the insect army and Mosquito Daoist realized they had been attacked.

• Xia Ping waited until the three insect Saints lowered their guard, then condensed two Curse Daggers with the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art.
• Xia Ping infused the daggers with curse power from the Curse Black Coffin, making them powerful enough to threaten Early Ancient Saints.
• Xia Ping launched the daggers at Locust True Lord and Black Ant Daoist, piercing their bodies and souls without warning.
• Locust True Lord screamed in pain and demanded to know who had ambushed it, while the insect soldiers and Mosquito Daoist were stunned.
• Cecil realized Xia Ping was responsible, as Black Ant Daoist struggled against the curse power consuming its soul.

Xia Ping used the Curse Black Coffin’s curse to kill Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord, two Insect Race Early Ancient Saints. Cecil watched their deaths in shock and grew fearful of Xia Ping’s power.

• Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord realized that a powerful curse was corroding their souls and could not be driven out.
• Xia Ping explained that only the Hell Golden Crow’s flames could remove the Curse Black Coffin’s power.
• Black Ant Daoist and Locust True Lord pleaded, threatened, and struggled, but the curse consumed them and destroyed all their clones.
• Insect Race soldiers recoiled from the two Saints’ remains, fearing the curse would infect them as well.
• Cecil watched from the Tree World, stunned by Xia Ping’s victory and afraid that Xia Ping could kill him just as easily.

Xia Ping and Great Elder Cecil trapped Mosquito Daoist as it tried to flee, and Xia Ping’s Samsara Pen shattered its blood-sea domain and gravely wounded it. Mosquito Daoist surrendered, and Xia Ping stood before it with the Samsara Pen.

• Mosquito Daoist panicked after Locust True Lord and Black Ant Daoist were killed, abandoned the insect army, and tried to escape through space.
• Xia Ping used the Mystic Moon Demon-Sealing Stele and Crimson Sun Demon-Sealing Stele with eight other steles to seal the surrounding space and trap Mosquito Daoist.
• Great Elder Cecil attacked the trapped Mosquito Daoist, which unleashed Boundless Blood Sea and engulfed him in a corrosive Spatial Domain.
• Xia Ping struck Mosquito Daoist from behind with the Samsara Pen, breaking its blood-sea world and tearing through its body.
• Mosquito Daoist surrendered, and Xia Ping stepped before it holding the Samsara Pen.

Xia Ping defeated the Mosquito Daoist, bound it with a Soul Seal, and gained a powerful servant. He then summoned the World Tree to destroy and devour the vast insect army.

• The Mosquito Daoist was shocked to learn that Xia Ping was only an Immortal Saint, then surrendered when Xia Ping threatened to kill it.
• Xia Ping merged a Soul Seal with the Mosquito Daoist’s soul, making the Mosquito Daoist his servant.
• Cecil watched in disbelief as the Mosquito Daoist addressed Xia Ping as its master.
• Xia Ping summoned the World Tree and ordered it to wipe out the insect army.
• The World Tree crushed and devoured the insect army, growing larger and more powerful.

After the World Tree devoured the Zerg army, Xia Ping sensed its vast growth and gained insight into the mysteries of space, while absorbing the dead soldiers’ soul energy to strengthen himself. The Treants celebrated their god’s power, and Great Elder Cecil watched Mosquito Daoist’s complete loyalty with wary amazement.

• Xia Ping sensed that devouring the Zerg army had more than doubled the World Tree’s power, and its leaves and roots had become connected to dimensional worlds and the universe’s origin.
• Xia Ping received information about spatial laws from the World Tree and realized that devouring Early Ancient Saints could help it grow further.
• Xia Ping absorbed the Zerg soldiers’ remaining soul energy, increasing his soul power, divine-consciousness range, and mana.
• The Treants praised Xia Ping after witnessing him destroy the Zerg army, and Mosquito Daoist declared its reverence for its master.
• Great Elder Cecil observed Mosquito Daoist’s obedience and wondered how Xia Ping had subdued the fearsome Zerg Saint.

After reaching the peak of the mid-stage Immortal Realm, Xia Ping merged Tree World and the Void Banyan Tree into the Mountain River Bead. The artifact advanced to a high-grade Saint Artifact, and the Treant Race joined Xia Ping within it.

• Xia Ping finished assimilating the insectoid army’s gains, improving his mana, divine consciousness, and understanding of spatial laws.
• Grand Elder Cecil pledged the Treant Race to Xia Ping, and Green Ox proposed merging Tree World into the Mountain River Bead.
• Cecil agreed to the merger, seeking both greater strength for Tree World and protection for the Treant Race.
• Xia Ping used the Mountain River Bead to envelop Tree World and merge the Void Banyan Tree into its space.
• The Mountain River Bead broke through its limits and advanced into a high-grade Saint Artifact, while Green Ox became nearly corporeal.

After merging with the Tree World, the Mountain River Bead grew into a peak high-grade saint artifact, gained control over time within a limited area, and showed potential to advance further. With the Treant Race settled and the Zerg threat gone, Xia Ping decided to return to the Primordial Sacred Land.

• Xia Ping discovered that the Mountain River Bead's space had expanded to one hundred thousand light-years across and its spiritual energy had increased more than a thousandfold.
• Xia Ping found that the Mountain River Bead had reached the peak of high-grade saint artifacts and could restrain even Ancient Saints with its strengthened spatial laws.
• Xia Ping discovered that the Mountain River Bead could alter time within a limited area, though doing so consumed enormous universal origin energy.
• Green Ox told Xia Ping that the Mountain River Bead's power surpassed what it had reached under its former master and that it might someday become a supreme-grade saint artifact.
• Great Elder Cecil told Xia Ping that the Treant Race had settled around the Void Banyan Tree, then returned to the sacred tree to heal his injuries.
• Xia Ping told Green Ox they would return to the Primordial Sacred Land.

Xia Ping returned to Green Jade City and learned that the Sacred Land Grand Competition would begin the next day, with disciples competing inside the Demon Suppression Tower. As he considered sitting out the contest, the inner sect disciples he had previously extorted confronted him, eager for revenge.

• Xia Ping returned to Green Jade City and reunited with Wei Liangsheng, Yin Xiheng, Kong Cheng, and the other disciples.
• Wei Liangsheng explained that the competition ranked participants by their progress and kills inside the Demon Suppression Tower, with prizes and recognition for high performers.
• Yin Xiheng, Kong Cheng, and the others vowed to make a name for themselves in the competition, while Xia Ping decided he had little reason to compete as an Immortal Saint.
• A group of inner sect disciples who resented Xia Ping for extorting them approached and accused him of hiding from the competition.

Xia Ping faced the Primordial Sacred Land inner disciples who had returned to challenge him, but his attempts to apologize and avoid the contest only angered them further. The disciples insisted on comparing their Demon Suppression Tower scores, and Xia Ping claimed competing with him would be bullying them.

• The inner disciples confronted Xia Ping, saying they had trained against his illusions and would defeat him in the Sacred Land Grand Competition.
• Xia Ping calmly apologized for his past behavior and offered to withdraw from the competition, surprising Wei Liangsheng and the others.
• The disciples assumed Xia Ping was afraid of their preparations and provoked him into accepting a contest.
• Xia Ping questioned how they could determine who was stronger without fighting, and the disciples proposed comparing their Demon Suppression Tower point rankings.
• Xia Ping said his strength had grown so much that competing would be bullying them, enraging the inner disciples.

Xia Ping agreed to compete against the Primordial Sacred Land’s inner disciples at the Sacred Land Grand Competition and accepted their large wagers. Their confrontation drew powerful prodigies from the Dark Hall and the Primordial Sacred Land, leaving the gathering on the brink of a clash.

• Xia Ping proposed that the inner disciples win if any of them scored higher than him in the competition.
• The inner disciples challenged Xia Ping to wager points, and twenty or thirty of them bet at least five hundred thousand points in total.
• Xia Ping accepted all the bets and mocked the disciples for delivering points to him.
• Che Guangliang and other Dark Hall disciples arrived, including the renowned Sun Jiexing.
• Zhang Ruixuan appeared to defend the Primordial Sacred Land’s disciples, and Huang Yong joined the gathering.

Che Guangliang and other peerless prodigies arrived to see Xia Ping, whose reputation for powerful illusion arts had drawn their interest. After Xia Ping boasted that he had no equal in the Primordial Sacred Land or Dark Hall, Che Guangliang challenged him to compete in the Sacred Land Grand Competition and wagered one million points.

• Wei Liangsheng described the extraordinary abilities of Che Guangliang, Sun Jiexing, Zhang Ruixuan, and Huang Yong to the gathered disciples.
• Che Guangliang insulted the Primordial Sacred Land's inner sect disciples and said he had come to judge Xia Ping's reputation for himself.
• Huang Yong offered to fight Che Guangliang, but Che Guangliang refused and explained that he wanted to see Xia Ping's illusion arts.
• Xia Ping mocked Che Guangliang's interest in him and claimed he could not find an opponent in the Primordial Sacred Land or Dark Hall.
• Che Guangliang proposed joining the Sacred Land Grand Competition and wagered one million points that he would rank above Xia Ping.

Xia Ping accepted a wager with Zhang Ruixuan, Huang Yong, Sun Jiexing, and other disciples, totaling six and a half million points, on the Sacred Land Grand Competition. The news spread throughout the Primordial Sacred Land, where most disciples expected him to lose tomorrow.

• Sun Jiexing, Zhang Ruixuan, Huang Yong, and other disciples challenged Xia Ping to wager points against him.
• Xia Ping agreed to the wagers and signed Sacred Land contracts with the challengers, bringing the total to six and a half million points.
• The challengers left, while Xia Ping anticipated winning points and gaining enough Hate Crystals for a System Gift Pack.
• News of the wager spread across the Primordial Sacred Land and drew attention from disciples and saints.
• The disciples discussed Xia Ping's chances and mostly predicted that Huang Yong and the other veteran competitors would defeat him.

The Sacred Land Grand Competition began with disciples gathering to challenge the Demon Suppression Tower, a divine artifact. Xia Ping entered the tower with the others as the Saints debated the leading contenders and the North Nether Saint predicted his young disciple might reach the eighth level.

• The Primordial Sacred Land and Dark Hall disciples gathered before the Demon Suppression Tower, and Xia Ping sensed its immense power and complete cosmic laws.
• More than a thousand human Saints arrived, including the North Nether Saint, and a Saint elder explained the tower challenge’s rules and scoring.
• The Saint elder teleported Xia Ping and the other disciples into the Demon Suppression Tower’s first level.
• The Saints discussed Zhang Ruixuan, Che Guangliang, and Huang Yong as contenders before another elder named Xia Ping as a possible winner.
• The North Nether Saint said Xia Ping was still young and would do well if he reached the eighth level.