Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping used the Book of Karma to cripple the demons attacking him, then killed three ancient demons with his attacks. The remaining demons watched in terror as he continued his assault.

• Xia Ping tested the Book of Karma’s Karma Barrier, which severely wounded the demons around him.
• Xia Ping killed Power Bull Demon Rist with a single Yin-Yang Tombstone Throwing Hand strike, destroying his body and soul.
• Xia Ping used Lightning Fist to pierce two more ancient demons with tribulation lightning and obliterate their souls.
• The surviving demons panicked as they realized three of Scorched Earth Hell’s eleven ancient demons had been killed in moments.

Xia Ping killed two more Early Ancient demons, leaving the remaining demons terrified and ready to flee. Fred revealed the Thunder-Devouring Demon Staff and unleashed a vast lightning domain, making the demons look to him to stop Fengdu.

• Xia Ping used the Kunpeng Step to reach two Early Ancient demons and killed them with lightning spears, then collected their corpses.
• Ram-Horn Demon Odys and the surviving demons panicked after five Early Ancient demons had died and began considering retreat.
• Fred, the Lion-Thunder Demon, brought out the Thunder-Devouring Demon Staff and raised his power with its lightning laws.
• The demons realized Fred had concealed a hell magic treasure and suspected he intended to eliminate them after dealing with Fengdu.
• The demons set aside their anger at Fred's deception and hoped he could hold off Fengdu, whom they feared as their greatest threat.

Fred unleashed the Thunder-Devouring Demon Staff against Xia Ping, but Xia Ping used the Chaos Lightning Method to swallow its lightning and nullify the blow. Three ancient demons then seized what they believed was an opening and launched a surprise attack on him.

• Fred swung the Thunder-Devouring Demon Staff at Xia Ping with overwhelming force, and nearby demons retreated from the attack.
• Xia Ping circulated the Chaos Lightning Method and absorbed Fred’s Thunder-Devouring Power, leaving the staff strike unable to harm him.
• Xia Ping refined the absorbed lightning, strengthening the power of the Chaos Lightning Method within his body.
• Fred broke down when he realized his attack had failed to hurt Xia Ping.
• Odys and two other ancient demons attacked Xia Ping from three directions, hoping to kill him while he was weakened.

Xia Ping killed three ancient demons with a lightning technique, leaving Fred and two others among the attackers alive. As Xia Ping moved to kill Fred, a shadow demon named Ansel intervened, revealing a rare and powerful presence in Scorched Earth Hell.

• Xia Ping used Chaos Infinite Thunder Cut to kill Odys and two other ancient demons, bringing the total number of dead ancient demons to eight.
• The surviving demons realized their expedition had become a disastrous defeat, while Fred marveled at Xia Ping’s lightning and began to comprehend its laws.
• Xia Ping attacked the exhausted Fred with a lightning spear, but a vast shadow domain blocked the strike.
• A formless shadow revealed itself as Ansel, a shadow demon, and introduced itself to Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping recognized that shadow demons were rare, stealthy, and powerful creatures not expected in Scorched Earth Hell.

Xia Ping refused Shadow Demon Ansel’s demand to spare Fred and challenged Ansel to fight. Ansel ambushed Xia Ping with the Shadow Dagger, but Xia Ping caught it effortlessly, leaving Ansel stunned.

• Shadow Demon Ansel revealed that Fred had become a loyal general to its master and asked Xia Ping to spare him.
• Xia Ping rejected Ansel’s appeal and threatened to kill it if it stood in Fengdu’s way.
• Ansel warned Xia Ping about the power of demons from higher hell planes and promised to take Fred away if Xia Ping let them leave.
• Enraged by Xia Ping’s refusal, Ansel vanished into the shadows and attacked him from behind with the Shadow Dagger.
• Xia Ping turned and caught the dagger between two fingers, shocking Ansel by detecting its ambush.

Xia Ping exposed Shadow Demon Ansel’s stealth and forced it to flee using its Shadow Clone ability. He destroyed the clones with the Samsara Pen, killing Ansel and the ancient demons it carried.

• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to track Ansel through its shadow power and struck it with a palm.
• Ansel survived Xia Ping’s attack with its shadow body and threatened to kill him with its Shadow Dagger.
• Xia Ping summoned the Samsara Pen, terrifying Ansel into splitting into thousands of Shadow Clones and fleeing with Fred and the other ancient demons.
• Fred and the other ancient demons celebrated their escape, believing Ansel could help them evade Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping attacked with the Samsara Pen, destroying Ansel’s Shadow Clones and piercing Fred and the other three ancient demons.
• The ancient demons’ bodies and souls shattered, and Ansel’s Shadow Clones were reduced to atoms.

Xia Ping survived Shadow Demon Ansel’s desperate summoning of a mighty figure, whose Time Stasis and Heaven-Supporting Finger nearly destroyed Scorched Earth Hell. The finger missed Xia Ping, but its shockwave heavily injured him, while Ansel was left stunned that he had survived.

• Xia Ping’s strike killed three Early Ancient demons, but Shadow Demon Ansel survived by fusing its remaining Shadow Clones.
• Shadow Demon Ansel summoned its master through a black talisman, and the gigantic phantom attacked Xia Ping with Time Stasis.
• The Samsara Pen broke the temporal domain’s hold on Xia Ping, allowing him to dodge the Heaven-Supporting Finger.
• The finger devastated Scorched Earth Hell, and its shockwave heavily injured Xia Ping.
• Shadow Demon Ansel was shocked that Xia Ping survived the attack.

Xia Ping killed Shadow Demon Ansel despite Ancient Demon Aldrich's warning, then sent a curse dagger through the vanishing gate to strike Aldrich. The curse entered Aldrich, while Aldrich still vowed to hunt Xia Ping down.

• Xia Ping survived Ansel's time-stopping attack and prepared to kill the exhausted Shadow Demon.
• Aldrich spoke through the dark gate and warned Xia Ping not to kill Ansel, but Xia Ping struck Ansel with the Samsara Pen and shattered its soul.
• Aldrich threatened to hunt Xia Ping down for killing his servant, while Xia Ping vowed to retaliate.
• Xia Ping formed a curse dagger from the Curse Black Coffin's aura and hurled it through the dark gate.
• The curse dagger pursued Aldrich beyond the gate, pierced its defenses, and entered its body.

Xia Ping defeated the forces of Scorched Earth Hell, cursed ancient demon Aldrich, and gained the submission of the surviving demons. He left Fengdu City in control of Scorched Earth Hell, with the new subjects bound by the Underworld God Demon Curse.

• The Curse Black Coffin’s power ravaged Aldrich’s body and soul, and he vowed revenge on Fengdu.
• Xia Ping learned that the attack had earned him 150 Hate Crystals, bringing his total to 1,230, while only 150 immortal demons remained in Scorched Earth Hell.
• The demons of Fengdu City celebrated Xia Ping’s victory over the ancient-era demons and hailed him as the strongest ruler in Scorched Earth Hell.
• Xia Ping demanded that the surviving immortal demons submit or be destroyed, and they agreed to serve him.
• Xia Ping placed the Underworld God Demon Curse on the immortal demons, binding them against betrayal.

Xia Ping used sixteen Spatial Fruits to complete his body's spatialization and advance to the Early Ancient Saint realm. He emerged with a Spatial Body, a clear understanding of spatial laws, and vastly increased power and mana.

• Xia Ping gave the World Tree fourteen Early Ancient demon corpses, which it turned into Spatial Fruits.
• Xia Ping swallowed the sixteen Spatial Fruits and absorbed their energy and the demons' insights into spatial laws.
• Over seven days, spatial energy transformed Xia Ping's body until every cell reached one hundred percent spatialization.
• Xia Ping broke through the Immortal Realm bottleneck and became an Early Ancient Saint.
• Xia Ping recognized that his Spatial Body could hold immense mana and wield overwhelming physical strength.

After comprehending the laws of space, Xia Ping developed a vast Spatial Domain and merged the World Tree into it. The domain gained the rudimentary form of a world, leaving Xia Ping confident it could withstand even a Middle Ancient Saint’s Time Domain to some extent.

• Xia Ping discovered that his divine sense had expanded to four hundred light-years and become more concealed through the power of the void.
• Xia Ping transformed his Spiritual Domain into a Spatial Domain that spanned four hundred light-years and blocked the calamities of Scorched Earth Hell.
• Xia Ping realized his Spatial Domain could let him teleport across its range and suppress enemies, with his immense mana making repeated teleportation practical.
• Xia Ping sent the World Tree’s roots through his Spatial Domain, giving it a visible, reinforced barrier nourished by energy from dimensional spaces.
• Xia Ping sensed that the World Tree had given his Spatial Domain the rudimentary form of a world and believed it could resist a Middle Ancient Saint’s Time Domain to some extent.

Xia Ping stabilized his Spatial Domain after advancing to Early Ancient Saint, and Green Ox brought him Scorched Earth Hell’s Origin Pearls. Xia Ping fused the pearls and imprinted himself on the hell’s source, beginning to make it his own.

• Xia Ping integrated his divine abilities into his Spatial Domain and mastered it, expanding it to four hundred light-years across Scorched Earth Hell.
• Xia Ping used the World Tree’s roots to absorb energy from countless dimensions and greatly accelerate his cultivation.
• Cat Immortal and Green Ox marveled at Xia Ping’s strength and the resilience of his Spatial Domain.
• Green Ox told Xia Ping that it had gathered Scorched Earth Hell’s thirteen Origin Pearls from the treasure vaults of the thirteen Early Ancient demons.
• Xia Ping refined and fused all thirteen Origin Pearls, engraving his spiritual imprint into Scorched Earth Hell’s source.

Xia Ping used his authority to summon Burning Hell and merge it with Scorched Earth Hell, creating a larger, more powerful plane. The advancement awakened thirty-six billion Hell Golden Crow Cells in Xia Ping, whose bloodline radiance spread throughout the fused hell.

• Xia Ping sensed his complete authority over Scorched Earth Hell and drew upon its origin energy, awakening Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Xia Ping summoned Burning Hell across the void, alarming the demons who feared the incoming plane would collide with theirs.
• Xia Ping fused Burning Hell and Scorched Earth Hell, expanding the land and increasing the plane's hell-origin energy.
• The demons absorbed the new energy and benefited from the plane's advancement, while Xia Ping awakened thirty-six billion Hell Golden Crow Cells.
• Xia Ping's Hell Golden Crow bloodline power spread throughout Burning Hell, and most of its demons sensed its overwhelming influence.

Xia Ping’s Hell Golden Crow bloodline spread through Burning Hell, transforming its demons and drawing them toward Fengdu City. Meanwhile, Captain Elvis and the crew of the Crimson Demon discovered the newly advanced Hell and prepared to attack it for its resources.

• Xia Ping’s bloodline transformed demons throughout Burning Hell, with stronger changes among those closer to him and those with higher bloodlines.
• Demons from Burning Hell and Scorched Earth Hell rushed toward Fengdu City, drawn by Xia Ping’s power.
• An observer aboard the Crimson Demon discovered a new low-level Hell plane after the ship had searched the void for decades.
• Captain Elvis examined the Hell plane and judged that its rich origin made it valuable prey.
• The Crimson Demon’s crew planned to kill the Hell Lord, seize the plane’s origin, and capture its demons.

Elvis led a powerful force toward Burning Hell to seize it, but Xia Ping detected the invasion after absorbing the hell’s origin energy and awakening thirty-six billion Hell Golden Crow Cells. Xia Ping attacked the Crimson Demon to test his new strength, and Elvis stopped and destroyed the strike with his time domain.

• Elvis ordered his demons to steer the Crimson Demon toward Burning Hell and kill anyone who resisted.
• Xia Ping finished absorbing Burning Hell’s origin energy, awakening thirty-six billion Hell Golden Crow Cells and strengthening his power.
• Xia Ping sensed Elvis, more than twenty ancient demons, and over three hundred immortal demons approaching Burning Hell.
• Xia Ping attacked the Crimson Demon with his Hell Golden Crow Claw, intending to draw the fight into the hell void.
• Elvis used Time Stasis to halt Xia Ping’s claw, then blasted it apart with a punch.
• Xia Ping recognized the vast power of Elvis’s time domain and marveled at the strength of a medieval demon.

Xia Ping confronted Elvis and the demons who had come to seize Burning Hell, then crushed the attacking Early Ancient demons with his Spatial Domain. The remaining threat from Elvis, a Middle Ancient demon who had mastered the laws of time, was unresolved.

• Xia Ping left Burning Hell and faced the Crimson Demon and its crew outside the hell plane.
• Elvis questioned Xia Ping, and Xia Ping identified himself as Fengdu, Lord of Burning Hell, and demanded to know why the demons had come.
• The demons announced their plan to rob Xia Ping and take his territory, while Elvis threatened to kill him.
• More than twenty Early Ancient demons attacked Xia Ping with their Spatial Domains.
• Xia Ping unleashed his Spatial Domain across four hundred light-years, shattered the demons' domains, and badly injured them.

Xia Ping faced the medieval demon Elvis, whose Time Domain failed to overcome Xia Ping’s enormous, World Tree-reinforced Spatial Domain. Xia Ping realized his domain could withstand a medieval demon’s power, while Elvis withdrew and watched him warily.

• More than twenty ancient demons reeled from Xia Ping’s Spatial Domain, and Elvis angrily rebuked them for failing to defeat him.
• Elvis spread his Time Domain across dozens of light-years and used Time Stasis to halt movement throughout the area.
• Xia Ping reinforced his four-hundred-light-year Spatial Domain with the World Tree, preventing Elvis’s Time Domain from imprisoning it.
• Elvis felt his magical power and life force rapidly drain, so he stopped using Time Stasis and eyed Xia Ping with caution.
• Xia Ping realized his Spatial Domain could withstand a medieval demon’s Time Domain and felt reassured.

Fengdu, also known as Xia Ping, fought the medieval demon Elvis, who used Time Acceleration to attack him at tremendous speed. Xia Ping evaded Elvis's punch and summoned the World Tree, but Elvis slowed its roots with Time Deceleration, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Elvis questioned Fengdu's identity and challenged him after Fengdu mocked his strength.
• Elvis used Time Acceleration to rush at Fengdu, who tracked him with the Hell Golden Crow Eye and teleported away from his punch.
• Xia Ping activated the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique and summoned a World Tree that spread across his Spatial Domain.
• The World Tree sent countless roots toward Elvis, who used Time Deceleration to slow them within a ten-light-year radius.

Xia Ping used his vast spatial domain to withstand Middle Ancient demon Elvis’s time powers until Elvis’s mana drained away. After Elvis withdrew his domain, the World Tree’s roots severely wounded him, leaving Xia Ping unharmed and the watching demons stunned.

• Elvis used Time Deceleration to slow the World Tree’s roots, but maintaining the time domain rapidly consumed his mana and hell origin power.
• Elvis withdrew his time domain when he realized it would drain him to death.
• The World Tree’s roots struck Elvis from every direction, piercing him and inflicting grievous wounds with chaotic law power.
• The demons watching were astonished that Xia Ping had defeated a Middle Ancient demon while remaining uninjured.
• Xia Ping realized that Elvis’s time powers consumed enormous energy when used against his unusually vast spatial domain.

Fengdu forced Elvis and the other demons to retreat, but Xia Ping sensed one hundred thousand Void Monsters approaching Burning Hell. Trapped between the monsters ahead and Fengdu behind, Elvis ordered his group to turn back toward Fengdu.

• Elvis ordered the demons to retreat after realizing he could not defeat Fengdu.
• Xia Ping stopped pursuing the fleeing demons when he sensed one hundred thousand Void Monsters approaching Burning Hell.
• Elvis and his demons initially assumed Fengdu had given up chasing them, but Elvis soon detected the Void Monsters ahead.
• The demons panicked at the approaching horde, and Elvis ordered them to return and face Fengdu rather than fight the Void Monsters.