Chapter Summaries

After Xia Ping gained control of his Hell Golden Crow Bloodline, he set out with Luna for Scorched Earth Hell to hunt Early Ancient demons and advance his cultivation. Their Star Ship withstood hell monsoons and a Soul-Devouring Storm, leaving them able to continue their journey.

• Xia Ping's bloodline transformed the demons of Burning Hell into his retainers, and nine peak Lightning Tribulation Realm demons advanced to the early Immortal Realm.
• Xia Ping asked Luna about a new hell plane, and she reported that Scorched Earth Hell was nearby, much larger than Burning Hell, and home to Early Ancient demons.
• Xia Ping and Luna departed Burning Hell aboard the Star Ship and entered the dangerous void between hell planes.
• Hell monsoons battered the Star Ship, but its defenses and the Thousand-Star Vine protected and repaired it.
• A Soul-Devouring Storm engulfed the Star Ship, but its Earth Soul Mithril surface blocked the attack.

Xia Ping and Luna encountered a swarm of Void Monsters pursuing a damaged spacecraft in Hell’s void. The fleeing demons steered their ship toward Xia Ping’s Star Ship, hoping to use it as a scapegoat, while Xia Ping prepared to face them.

• Xia Ping sensed killing intent in the void as a damaged black spacecraft raced toward his Star Ship, pursued by thousands of Void Monsters.
• Luna identified the creatures as nearly indestructible monsters driven by instincts to slaughter and devour, and described their threat to travelers in Hell’s void.
• Xia Ping suspected Luna’s creation might be connected to the Void Monsters and chose not to avoid the approaching spacecraft or its pursuers.
• The demons aboard the black spacecraft panicked as the Void Monsters closed in and spotted Xia Ping’s unfamiliar Star Ship ahead.
• An Ancient demon urged the others to steer toward Xia Ping’s ship and use it to distract the monsters so they could escape.

Ancient Demon Presco tried to force Xia Ping to shield its ship from pursuing Void Monsters, but Xia Ping refused and revealed the Star Ship’s true form as the enormous Thousand-Star Vine. Presco and the demons were trapped alongside the Void Monsters, leaving them terrified of their new enemy.

• Ancient Demon Presco called Xia Ping and offered treasure in exchange for rescue from the pursuing Void Monsters.
• Xia Ping refused and warned Presco not to bring the monsters near his ship.
• Presco threatened Xia Ping and ordered him to block the Void Monsters while the demons escaped.
• Xia Ping activated the Star Ship, transforming it into the gigantic Thousand-Star Vine that engulfed the demons and Void Monsters.
• Presco and the Immortal Demons panicked after realizing they had provoked a foe more terrifying than the monsters chasing them.

Xia Ping used the Thousand-Star Vine to crush Presco and the other demons, then tore apart a swarm of Void Monsters. The Void Monsters began regenerating, and Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to examine what they really were.

• Xia Ping ordered the Thousand-Star Vine to ensnare and crush the immortal demons and ancient demons, including Presco, killing their bodies and souls.
• Xia Ping collected the demons' remains and gave them to the World Tree to devour.
• Xia Ping ordered the Thousand-Star Vine to attack the approaching Void Monsters, shredding more than a thousand of them into pieces.
• Xia Ping saw the Void Monsters' scattered remains wriggling and beginning to regenerate.
• Xia Ping activated the Hell Golden Crow Eye and peered into the Void Monsters' bodies and souls.

Xia Ping discovered that Void Monsters could regenerate their bodies and souls unless they were completely destroyed by Hell Golden Crow Flame. After he burned them away, the World Tree consumed the dark matter they left behind and began to grow rapidly.

• Xia Ping realized that Void Monsters were chaotic soul-aggregates that could regenerate unless their souls were completely annihilated.
• The surviving Void Monsters fused into a smaller, stronger group, and Xia Ping concluded that only Hell Golden Crow Flame could kill them.
• Xia Ping attacked the Void Monsters with a Hell Golden Crow Claw, and its flames consumed them and their souls.
• The burned Void Monsters left behind dark matter that the World Tree identified as exceptionally potent fertilizer.
• Xia Ping let the World Tree absorb the dark matter, and it grew as deeper world runes appeared in its leaves.

Xia Ping collected the black spaceship left behind by the slain Void Monsters and sent it to the Golden Slime to devour. He and Luna then reached Scorched Earth Hell and entered aboard the concealed Star Ship to scout the plane without alerting its demons.

• Xia Ping sensed the World Tree growing rapidly after absorbing the Void Monsters’ dark matter.
• Xia Ping placed the damaged black spaceship in the Mountain River Bead and told the Golden Slime to eat it.
• Xia Ping and Luna arrived at Scorched Earth Hell, where Luna’s Corpse Insect Clones were hiding.
• Xia Ping told Luna to gather intelligence before they made plans to hunt demons.
• Xia Ping ordered Cat Immortal to keep the Star Ship hidden as it slipped through Scorched Earth Hell’s planar barrier unnoticed.

Xia Ping and Luna arrived in Scorched Earth Hell and found Ice Demons and Magma Demons battling over the Blood-Colored Plain. Xia Ping called himself Fengdu, a peace envoy, and proposed a truce, but after a Magma Demon attacked him, he effortlessly absorbed its blow.

• Ice Demons and Magma Demons clashed over control of the Blood-Colored Plain, with both sides claiming to be the masters of Scorched Earth Hell.
• Xia Ping and Luna appeared above the battlefield, interrupting the fighting as they sought information about Scorched Earth Hell.
• Xia Ping introduced himself as Fengdu, a Burning Demon and peace envoy, and urged the factions to stop fighting and negotiate over tea.
• An immortal Magma Demon rejected Xia Ping's proposal and attacked him with a powerful magma punch.
• Xia Ping met the Magma Demon's fist with one hand and absorbed its power without being moved, leaving the attacker stunned.

Xia Ping easily killed the immortal magma demon Cole, then faced an attack from the remaining immortal demons. His overwhelming strike devastated the Blood-Colored Plain, but Luna told him one immortal magma demon had survived and could be questioned.

• Xia Ping caught Cole's full-force punch, restrained him, and burned him to ashes after Cole admitted he was wrong.
• The remaining immortal magma demon threatened Xia Ping, while the two immortal frozen demons joined its attack.
• The frozen demons unleashed their strongest ice abilities, and Xia Ping answered with a Hell Golden Crow claw that smashed all three demons into the ground and destroyed the surrounding area.
• Xia Ping realized he had used too much force and might have killed everyone he wanted to question.
• Luna told Xia Ping that one immortal magma demon had survived, leaving the demon trembling at the prospect of being tortured for information.

After learning that thirteen ancient demons ruled Scorched Earth Hell, Xia Ping decided to challenge its rulers and waited for Lord Magma and Lord Ice to arrive. While the two immortal demons feared the coming confrontation, Xia Ping and Luna prepared a meal, and a distress talisman reached Magma City.

• Xia Ping tortured the immortal Magma Demon and learned that Scorched Earth Hell had thirteen ancient demon lords and hundreds of immortal demons.
• The immortal Magma Demon and Ice Demon revealed that they had sent distress signals to Lord Magma and Lord Ice, while Xia Ping resolved to wait for the two lords rather than flee.
• Xia Ping asked Luna if she was hungry, and the two began cooking with ingredients from the Mountain River Bead's space as their captives watched in disbelief.
• A black distress talisman crossed billions of miles and arrived at Magma City.

After learning that Fengdu had killed Immortal demons from Magma City and the Ice Demons, Ancient Demon Vede and Ancient Demon Osborne mobilized their forces and headed for the Blood-Colored Plain. Both lords set out to confront Fengdu, though Osborne suspected a conspiracy.

• Vede received a distress talisman reporting that Fengdu had killed one Magma Immortal general and left another near death, and he flew into a rage.
• Vede summoned twenty Immortal Magma Demons and ordered them to march with him to kill Fengdu.
• Osborne received a distress signal about Fengdu killing an Ice Demon Immortal and wondered where the mysterious demon came from.
• Osborne decided that Vede was likely already heading to the Blood-Colored Plain, gathered his Immortal demons, and set out to investigate Fengdu.

Xia Ping and Luna waited calmly on the Blood-Colored Plain as ancient demons Vede and Osborne arrived with their forces. Vede attacked Xia Ping with a devastating torrent of magma, while Osborne watched to gauge Xia Ping’s strength.

• The captured Immortal demons sensed Vede and Osborne approaching and expected them to punish Xia Ping, who calmly finished dinner with Luna.
• Vede and Osborne arrived above the Blood-Colored Plain with Immortal demons from the Magma and Ice Demon Races.
• Vede accused Xia Ping of killing Magma Demon Race soldiers, and Xia Ping declared that he intended to subdue both ancient demons.
• Osborne agreed that Xia Ping should be killed but chose to observe Vede’s attack before acting himself.
• Vede tore open the void and sent a massive river of molten magma crashing toward Xia Ping.

Xia Ping used the Chaos Bell to block ancient demon Vede’s attack, then unleashed Soul-Scattering Light and killed Vede with a single punch. Ancient demon Osborne recovered from the soul attack and was left terrified by what he had witnessed.

• Xia Ping summoned the Chaos Bell, which shielded him from Vede’s devastating attack and astonished the demons watching.
• Vede, Osborne, and the other demons coveted the Chaos Bell, believing it was the source of Xia Ping’s strength.
• Xia Ping activated the Chaos Bell’s Soul-Scattering Light, killing more than a dozen immortal demons and briefly stunning Vede and Osborne.
• Xia Ping punched Vede while he was dazed, destroying his body and soul.
• Xia Ping collected Vede’s remains for the World Tree, and Osborne regained his senses, horrified by Vede’s death.

Xia Ping killed the ancient demons Vede and Osborne, then forced the surviving immortal demons to submit and bound them with the Underworld God Demon Curse. He left the defeated demons under his control, intending to use them to expand Burning Hell’s power.

• Osborne tried to flee after seeing Vede die, but Xia Ping’s bell shattered his soul and killed him.
• The remaining immortal demons surrendered when Xia Ping demanded to know whether they wanted to live or die.
• Xia Ping ordered the immortal demons to open their soul defenses and accepted their submission by placing Underworld God Demon Curses in their souls.
• The immortal demons realized the curses gave Xia Ping control over their lives and deaths, but they could no longer refuse.

The Ice Demon Race and Magma Demon Race accepted Fengdu’s rule and moved to Fengdu City, where Xia Ping’s curse strengthened the immortal demons’ bloodlines and powers. Xia Ping then ordered them to carry his declaration of war to every lord in Scorched Earth Hell, aiming to draw the remaining ancient demons into one confrontation.

• The Ice Demon Race and Magma Demon Race learned their lords had died and accepted Fengdu’s rule, relocating to Fengdu City.
• The immortal demons gathered in Fengdu City’s City Lord’s Mansion and admired Xia Ping for building the city in one day with engineering robots.
• The immortal demons became more loyal to Xia Ping after the Underworld God Demon Curse gave them Hell Golden Crow Bloodline and improved their cultivation.
• Xia Ping ordered the immortal demons to demand every hell lord surrender and declared that he would be the only lord in Scorched Earth Hell.
• The immortal demons were shocked by Xia Ping’s plan to challenge the remaining lords, while Xia Ping intended to draw the ancient demons into a single battle.

Xia Ping sent immortal demons from Fengdu City across the Scorched Earth Hell to demand that its powers surrender or face war. The ancient demon lords rejected his ultimatum, and their reactions set the stage for a major conflict.

• Xia Ping ordered Fengdu City’s immortal demons to spread his declaration of war because news traveled slowly through the Scorched Earth Hell.
• The messengers told the ancient demons that Xia Ping had killed Osborne and Vede and taken control of their races.
• One ancient demon raged at Xia Ping’s ultimatum and threatened to destroy Fengdu City, while the messenger hurried away.
• Other ancient demons mocked Xia Ping, considered joining forces against him, or planned to investigate his strength.
• The Scorched Earth Hell’s factions began reconsidering their plans as tensions rose toward war.

Xia Ping welcomed the hatred of Scorched Earth Hell’s demons as he waited for them to unite, while Fred gathered the other lords to discuss how to deal with Fengdu. The demons learned that Fengdu was only at the peak of the Immortal Realm and had killed two Early Ancient demons using a powerful hell artifact.

• The system awarded Xia Ping thirty Hate Crystals for enraging the demons of Scorched Earth Hell.
• Green Ox warned Xia Ping that eleven Early Ancient demons might join forces, but Xia Ping said that was what he wanted and entered seclusion to wait for them.
• Fred gathered the eleven Early Ancient demons and more than two hundred Immortal demons in a mountain valley to plan how to deal with Fengdu.
• Rist and Odys dismissed the need for all the lords to unite against Fengdu, but Fred argued that killing Early Ancient demons proved Fengdu was a serious threat.
• Fred revealed that Fengdu had not reached the Early Ancient Realm and had used a powerful hell artifact to kill Vede and Osborne, shocking the gathered demons.

Fred persuaded ten other ancient demons to sign a hell contract and form an alliance to attack Fengdu and seize his hell treasure. The eleven ancient demons and over two hundred immortal demons reached Fengdu City, where they found its powerful formations resisting their combined pressure.

• Odys questioned Fred's motives for revealing Fengdu's hell treasure, and Fred said he needed the other demons to block Fengdu's escape routes.
• Fred proposed sharing the treasure and taking turns studying its laws, and the ancient demons agreed to sign a hell contract.
• Fred presented a contract forbidding the demons from harming one another, and eleven ancient demons signed it to form an Offensive-Defensive Alliance.
• Fred led the demons toward Fengdu City, and eleven ancient demons and over two hundred immortal demons arrived half an hour later.
• Rist examined Fengdu City and noticed that its vast formations drew on hell's origin power and resisted the demons' pressure.

Eleven ancient demons and over two hundred immortal demons arrived to destroy Fengdu City and draw out Xia Ping. When Fred attacked the city with a massive lightning strike, Xia Ping countered with his Chaos Bell.

• Fengdu City's demons feared the invading force but resolved to fight because they were bound to Xia Ping by the Underworld God Demon Curse.
• Odys and Rist examined Fengdu City and questioned why its demons dared to resist them.
• Fred struck Fengdu City with a golden lion claw, unleashing rivers of black lightning.
• Xia Ping responded by summoning his life-bound magical treasure, the Chaos Bell, to intercept the lightning.

Xia Ping used the Chaos Bell to repel the ancient demons who had gathered at Fengdu City, leaving three near-ancient demons gravely wounded. The demons survived the blow but were stunned by the artifact’s power.

• The Chaos Bell blocked Fred’s lightning attack, and the watching demons grew greedy for the artifact.
• Xia Ping mistook the demons’ arrival for surrender and told them they would have to earn merits to rise in Fengdu City.
• Three near-ancient demons attacked Xia Ping with their strongest abilities from different directions.
• Xia Ping rang the Chaos Bell and shattered their attacks, injuring their bodies and souls and sending them crashing across the ground.
• The wounded Power Bull Demon and the other two demons struggled out of a pit, shocked that they had failed to withstand one strike.

Xia Ping faced the ancient demons and their allies as they launched a combined assault on Fengdu City. He used the Book of Karma to shield the city and rebound their attacks, leaving the demons’ own overwhelming power racing back toward them.

• Power Bull Demon and the other ancient demons grew furious when Xia Ping questioned whether they were genuine ancient demons.
• The ancient demons and more than two hundred immortal demons joined forces and unleashed their Spatial Domains against Xia Ping and Fengdu City.
• Xia Ping summoned the Book of Karma and formed the Karmic Barrier around Fengdu City, absorbing the assault without letting its power through.
• Xia Ping activated the barrier’s karmic rebounding power, sending the demons’ attacks back along their original paths.
• The demons realized their returned attacks could kill them and tried to dodge, but the rebounding power was already upon them.