Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping killed He Shisan and Wu Han, then confronted Gu Nan as the surviving geniuses watched. After Gu Nan’s supreme blade art failed, Xia Ping killed him too, leaving the other races stunned by his strength.

• He Shisan begged Xia Ping for his life and threatened war, but Xia Ping crushed him with the Hell Golden Crow Claw.
• The gathered geniuses watched in shock as Xia Ping’s power proved overwhelming, and Gu Nan fled.
• Xia Ping caught up with Gu Nan, sealed his escape, and challenged him over his threats against the Universe Sect.
• Gu Nan used the Asura Bloodthirsty Blade, but Xia Ping caught and crushed its blade radiance, severely wounding him.
• Gu Nan proposed a rematch in three years, but Xia Ping ignored the offer and killed him with a punch.

Xia Ping killed Gu Nan, He Shisan, and Wu Han, then faced a crowd of wary racial prodigies. When over a hundred million abyss demons arrived, he claimed he would seek reinforcements and fled, leaving the others to face the horde.

• Xia Ping killed Gu Nan, He Shisan, and Wu Han and collected their Space Rings, shocking the witnesses with his strength.
• Xia Ping challenged the remaining prodigies to fight him one-on-one, but they refused and began preparing to attack him together.
• Over a hundred million abyss demons appeared, forcing the racial prodigies to abandon their plans to fight Xia Ping and seek a way to survive.
• Yin Shixing and the others asked Xia Ping for a solution, and he promised to find reinforcements before fleeing into the void.
• Yin Shixing realized Xia Ping had abandoned them and cursed him as the abyss demons closed in.

After Xia Ping and the others fled the abyss demons, the demons hunted them for three days, killing most of their forces. Xia Ping decided to set a trap against his relentless pursuers, while the demons later spotted him injured in a valley and moved to surround him.

• Ye Mengyao ordered the survivors to flee toward Five-Finger Mountain, where a Buddhist seal would keep the abyss demons away.
• The abyss demons chased the fleeing groups for three days and nights, killing most of them along the way.
• Xia Ping found the demons relentlessly tracking him and decided to set a trap to wipe them out.
• Yin Shixing and his companions blamed Xia Ping for their losses, while Yin Shixing warned them not to pursue whatever treasure the demons sought.
• A demon scout reported Xia Ping injured in a valley, and the demon chief ordered the horde to surround him.

Xia Ping drew three hundred million Abyss Demons into a valley and awakened his ten-millionth Hell Golden Crow Cell, triggering a transformation and a lightning tribulation. His left eye became the Underworld God's Eye, allowing him to see the demons’ lines of death, as he prepared to destroy them.

• Xia Ping waited in the valley as three hundred million Abyss Demons surrounded him and dismissed their suspicions about his plan.
• Xia Ping swallowed ten-thousand-year spiritual medicines and used the Sun Furnace to awaken his ten-millionth Hell Golden Crow Cell.
• Xia Ping’s bloodline transformed, strengthening his body and filling his blood with dark golden runes.
• Xia Ping’s left eye changed into the Underworld God's Eye, revealing the Abyss Demons’ lines of death.

Xia Ping discovered the full power of his Underworld God's Eye just as a heavenly tribulation descended, stronger than expected because the universe sensed his growing threat. He drew the tribulation toward three hundred million abyssal demons, leaving hundreds of thousands dead as the lightning struck.

• Xia Ping realized that opening his Underworld God's Eye could greatly increase his combat power but would quickly drain his soul energy and stamina.
• Xia Ping saw that his heavenly tribulation had risen to sixty-four layers, and the system warned that future tribulations could be even stronger.
• The abyssal demons recognized the danger of the tribulation clouds and feared that Xia Ping had deliberately brought them into the disaster.
• Xia Ping charged into the demon horde and urged the demons to help him, while they cursed him for using them as shields.
• The lightning struck Xia Ping and the surrounding demons, killing hundreds of thousands of abyssal demons and reducing them to ashes.

Xia Ping used his lightning tribulation and the Samsara Pen with the Underworld God's Eye to slaughter the Abyss Demons attacking him. After surviving the eight-hour tribulation, he left three hundred million Abyss Demons dead and the survivors fleeing.

• Xia Ping chased the Abyss Demons through the lightning tribulation as bolts killed most of them and he absorbed their souls.
• The Abyss Demons joined forces to attack Xia Ping, but he used the Underworld God's Eye and Samsara Pen to sever their life lines and kill them.
• Xia Ping used the Samsara Pen to slaughter more Abyss Demons, forcing the rest to flee, though the techniques rapidly drained his mana.
• Xia Ping endured the sixty-fourfold lightning tribulation for eight hours, killing three hundred million Abyss Demons before the tribulation clouds dispersed.

After surviving the heavenly tribulation, Xia Ping absorbed the souls of three hundred million Abyss Demons and discovered that his Underworld God's Eye contained a hellish space that could store and refine soul energy. He left for Five-Finger Mountain before the arriving cultivators could find him, while Yin Shixing and the others found the aftermath and angrily speculated about what had happened.

• Xia Ping used the tribulation lightning and the Abyss Demons' soul energy to strengthen his Primordial Spirits, expand his nine purple mansion spaces, and reach the peak of the early Return to Truth Realm.
• When Xia Ping could not absorb all the soul energy, his Underworld God's Eye drew it into the Underworld God Space, where the souls took the forms of Abyss Demons in a hellish landscape.
• Xia Ping learned that the Underworld God's Eye could capture souls and slowly refine the stored energy, then decided to seek treasures at Five-Finger Mountain.
• Sensing cultivators approaching, Xia Ping vanished into the void and headed toward Five-Finger Mountain without meeting them.
• Yin Shixing and hundreds of thousands of cultivators arrived to find the Abyss Demons dead and the area scarred by lightning, and they speculated that the mystic realm itself had destroyed the demons.
• Yin Shixing and the others fumed that the dead Abyss Demons could no longer hunt Xia Ping.

Xia Ping reached Five-Finger Mountain and rescued Ye Mengyao from a pursuing horde of Abyss Demons. The two reunited at the mountain, where Ye Mengyao healed herself with a treasured pill and dismissed Xia Ping’s requests for a reward and more medicine.

• Xia Ping arrived at Five-Finger Mountain, where its Buddhist barrier purified the Abyssal aura and healed his wounds.
• Ye Mengyao reached the mountain pursued by over a hundred Abyss Demons and killed them with the Ye Family’s God-Slaying Arrows.
• A concealed Abyss Demon ambushed Ye Mengyao, but Xia Ping killed it with a punch and appeared before her.
• Xia Ping teased Ye Mengyao about repaying him and proposed dual cultivation to heal her injuries, but she rejected him.
• Ye Mengyao swallowed a Withered Leaf Renewal Pill and recovered quickly, then refused Xia Ping’s request for several pills to study.

Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao reached Five-Finger Mountain, where Venerable Subhaddra revealed that the weakened seal imprisoning Heart Demon Venerable needed their help. As Subhaddra offered to empower them with Buddhist abilities, Xia Ping suddenly punched and shattered his head.

• Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao entered Five-Finger Mountain and were transported into a cavern before Venerable Subhaddra.
• Subhaddra told them he was a remnant of spiritual light and had been watching their journey.
• Subhaddra explained that the damaged seal imprisoned Heart Demon Venerable and asked them to help repair it.
• Subhaddra offered to instill Buddhist divine abilities into their minds so they could empower the seal.
• Xia Ping struck Subhaddra with a punch, shattering his head and blasting a hole through the distant cave.

Xia Ping exposed the supposed Venerable Subhaddra as Heart Demon Venerable, a demon overlord sealed beneath Five-Finger Mountain. After Xia Ping rejected its offer and mocked its weakened state, Heart Demon Venerable erupted in rage and covered the cave in darkness.

• Xia Ping attacked the supposed Venerable Subhaddra and accused it of being a demon in disguise.
• Xia Ping struck with Yang God Fist, and the disguised demon countered with a dark demonic palm.
• Ye Mengyao moved away from the demon as it revealed itself as an old man in a yellow robe.
• Xia Ping identified the old man as Heart Demon Venerable, who admitted he was an ancient Abyss Demon overlord sealed by Venerable Subhaddra.
• Heart Demon Venerable offered Xia Ping rewards for helping break the seal, but Xia Ping refused and mocked its weakened state.
• Heart Demon Venerable roared in anger and filled the cave with demonic qi, creating a dark domain.

The Heart Demon Venerable trapped Ye Mengyao and Xia Ping in its Darkness Space and Heart Demon World while trying to seize Xia Ping’s body. Xia Ping shattered the first domain and burned the Venerable with Golden Crow flames, but was then pulled into a realm where the demon’s powers could attack his Primordial Spirit.

• The Heart Demon Venerable used its Darkness Space to blind Ye Mengyao and attacked Xia Ping, hoping to take over his body.
• Xia Ping found the Heart Demon Venerable despite the darkness and battered it until the Darkness Space shattered.
• Xia Ping struck the Venerable with Golden Crow flames, burning its incorporeal body and causing it severe pain.
• The Heart Demon Venerable cast Heart Demon World and dragged Xia Ping into a timeless void, where it threatened to torture him for ten thousand years for every second outside.
• Green Ox and Cat Immortal warned Xia Ping that the Heart Demon Venerable could stir inner demons as thousands of its phantoms appeared around him.

Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Flame to destroy the Heart Demon World and severely wound the Heart Demon Venerable. As Xia Ping attacked again, the Heart Demon Venerable struck him and Ye Mengyao with the Paired Wings Flying Together Curse, binding their souls and making them love each other.

• The Heart Demon Venerable trapped Xia Ping in the Heart Demon World and taunted him, but Xia Ping summoned the Sun Furnace.
• Xia Ping unleashed the Hell Golden Crow Flame, destroying the Heart Demon World and burning the Heart Demon Venerable until it was gravely wounded.
• The Heart Demon Venerable feared Xia Ping and tried to kill him before he could grow stronger.
• Xia Ping attacked the Heart Demon Venerable with the Yang God Fist, but it retaliated with the Paired Wings Flying Together Curse.
• The curse struck Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao, binding their souls and filling them with an irresistible love for each other.

Heart Demon Venerable tried to invade Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao’s souls, but their strengthened Primordial Spirits and Xia Ping’s Underworld God’s Eye defeated him. Venerable Subhaddra re-sealed Heart Demon Venerable, cleansed the curse from Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao, and left them with strengthened bodies and Buddhist divine power.

• Heart Demon Venerable waited for Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao’s souls to weaken under the Paired Wings Flying Together Curse, then entered Xia Ping’s sea of consciousness.
• Heart Demon Venerable discovered that the Telepathic Resonance Technique had strengthened Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao’s Primordial Spirits instead of weakening them.
• Xia Ping’s Underworld God’s Eye swallowed Heart Demon Venerable’s remnant soul and imprisoned it in the Underworld God Space.
• Venerable Subhaddra appeared and re-sealed Heart Demon Venerable within Five-Finger Mountain.
• Venerable Subhaddra dispelled the curse from Xia Ping and Ye Mengyao, strengthened their physiques, and gave Xia Ping Buddhist divine power.

Three days after awakening from their cultivation, Ye Mengyao discovered that Xia Ping was also Wu Wudi and confronted him about their intimate encounter. She broke through to the Lightning Tribulation Realm, then attacked him over his boasts about taking more wives as he fled into the void.

• Ye Mengyao woke beside Xia Ping and recognized from memories gained through the Telepathic Resonance Technique that he was Wu Wudi.
• Xia Ping admitted Wu Wudi was one of his identities, and Ye Mengyao demanded he answer for their encounter.
• Xia Ping offered to marry Ye Mengyao and boasted about his dream of gathering thousands of divine maidens into a harem.
• Ye Mengyao advanced to the early-stage Lightning Tribulation Realm and threatened to castrate Xia Ping for his shameless boasts.
• Xia Ping dodged Ye Mengyao's attack with the Kunpeng Step and vanished into the void, while she pursued him.

Yin Shixing and his group entered Five-Finger Mountain seeking treasure, but the Heart Demon Venerable deceived them into believing Xia Ping had taken the inheritance and was Ye Mengyao’s Dao companion. After the group was expelled, Yin Shixing’s jealousy turned to hatred, and he planned to spread news that Xia Ping had obtained Saint treasures.

• Yin Shixing led his group into Five-Finger Mountain, where they searched in vain for treasures.
• The Heart Demon Venerable appeared as Subhaddra and told them Xia Ping had taken the treasures and was destined for Buddhism.
• The Heart Demon Venerable claimed Xia Ping had left with Ye Mengyao, his Dao companion, then forcibly teleported the group out of the mountain.
• Yin Shixing grew furious over Xia Ping’s relationship with Ye Mengyao and accused them of stealing his opportunity and his woman.
• Yin Shixing decided to spread word that Xia Ping had obtained Subhaddra’s inheritance and Saint treasures so others would target him.

After news spread that Xia Ping had obtained Venerable Subhaddra’s inheritance and treasures, powerful fiends and Buddhist forces began plotting to seize them. The chapter ends with these figures setting out to find Xia Ping.

• Cultivators and outside forces learned that Xia Ping had obtained Venerable Subhaddra’s inheritance, prompting envy and murderous intentions.
• Evilwood Daoist heard the news and left to teach Xia Ping a lesson and take his treasure.
• The Blood Sea Two Elders decided to kill Xia Ping and seize the inheritance for a chance to become Saints.
• Slayer Monk ordered his monks to reclaim the Buddhist inheritance, first trying to convert Xia Ping and otherwise killing him.
• Old monsters, fiends, and other forces began searching for Xia Ping.

After escaping Ye Mengyao, Xia Ping secluded himself and devoured the Heart Demon Venerable’s trapped Primordial Spirit, gaining its soul energy and memories. His illusion arts advanced, and he discovered he could create an immense, realistic town populated by intelligent illusory people, though sustaining it consumed his divine sense.

• Xia Ping entered seclusion in a mountain cave after evading Ye Mengyao with the Formless Mask.
• Xia Ping entered the Underworld God Space and found the Heart Demon Venerable bound by chains.
• Xia Ping used the Underworld God Space’s power to tear apart and devour the Heart Demon Venerable’s Primordial Spirit.
• Xia Ping absorbed the Heart Demon Venerable’s soul energy and memories, advancing his illusion arts to the advanced stage of the first realm.
• Xia Ping created a realistic town spanning a hundred li, populated by intelligent illusory people, and found he could maintain it for only one and a half shichen.
• Xia Ping discovered he had gained a faint ability to stir the heart demons of others.

Xia Ping discovered that he had inherited Venerable Subhaddra’s Conversion Scripture and fused its Divine Ability with the World Tree. He captured a group of Abyss Demons to test the strengthened power of conversion.

• Xia Ping found a golden Divine Ability seed in his Primordial Spirit and learned that it contained Venerable Subhaddra’s Conversion Scripture.
• Green Ox and Cat Immortal explained the scripture’s power to convert even Abyss Demons and warned Xia Ping to keep his inheritance secret.
• Xia Ping cultivated the scripture and condensed it into a swastika-shaped Divine Ability Talisman, which the World Tree absorbed and strengthened.
• Xia Ping left his cave, captured more than a hundred Abyss Demons, and prepared to test the Conversion Scripture on them.

Xia Ping used the World Tree to pierce the Abyss Demons’ soul barriers and convert them with the Conversion Scripture. After converting the hundred or so demons into loyal followers, he decided to capture more Abyss Demons.

• Xia Ping’s Light of Conversion failed to penetrate the Abyss Demons’ soul barriers, so he summoned the World Tree.
• Xia Ping used the World Tree’s roots to pierce the demons’ souls and flooded them with the Conversion Scripture’s Buddhist light.
• The hundred or so Abyss Demons became peaceful and loyal to Xia Ping, pledging to serve him and atone for their past deeds.
• Green Ox and Cat Immortal were shocked by the conversion, while Cat Immortal grew wary of Buddhist monks.
• Xia Ping accepted the converted demons as followers and set out to capture more Abyss Demons.

Xia Ping converted fifty million Abyss Demons in the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm, then learned that rumors about his obtaining Venerable Subhaddra’s inheritance had spread. He discovered that Yin Shixing was publicizing the rumor by lavishly praising Xia Ping and his supposed treasures, stirring up envy and hostility.

• Xia Ping used the World Tree and the Conversion Scripture to convert fifty million Abyss Demons, including one million at the Dharma Image Realm.
• Xia Ping asked Cat Immortal what had happened in the Heaven-Connecting Secret Realm, and Cat Immortal told him Zhu Xian had left a message warning that people wanted to kill him.
• Cat Immortal revealed that Yin Shixing had first spread the news that Xia Ping obtained Venerable Subhaddra’s inheritance.
• Xia Ping read Yin Shixing’s forum posts, which claimed he possessed numerous Saint artifacts, innate magic treasures, and other riches.
• Yin Shixing continued praising Xia Ping as unmatched among the younger generation, provoking other forum users and intensifying the rumors.