Chapter Summaries

Xia Chuanliu used his authority as Federation President to issue harsh orders on railway construction, resistance forces, and resource extraction while complaining about his workload. After officials left, Xia Ping suddenly appeared at the presidential residence, surprising his father.

• A bald official reported that the Fire Crow Clan and Water Bear Clan were blocking the planned high-speed railway, and Xia Chuanliu ordered forced relocation and suppression of critical media.
• A general described attacks by monster resistance forces, and Xia Chuanliu ordered Invincible Kings and troops to capture the rebels and force them into labor.
• Officials reported discoveries of resource planets and other government business, and Xia Chuanliu ordered the planets plundered while canceling several engagements.
• After dismissing the officials, Xia Chuanliu celebrated his power until Xia Ping appeared before him.

Xia Ping reunited with Xia Chuanliu and Huang Lanxin, explained that he wanted to move the Cloud Sky Realm to protect humanity from his enemies, and gave his parents Ten Thousand Longevity Pills. After swallowing the pills, Xia Chuanliu and Huang Lanxin felt their life levels rise dramatically.

• Xia Chuanliu told Xia Ping how he had become Federation president, and Xia Ping questioned whether his father could handle the role.
• Xia Ping told Xia Chuanliu and Huang Lanxin that he wanted to relocate the Cloud Sky Realm to protect its people from powerful enemies in the universe.
• Huang Lanxin urged Xia Ping to marry and have children, while Xia Chuanliu said the Xia Family needed heirs for its imperial throne.
• Xia Ping gave Xia Chuanliu and Huang Lanxin three Ten Thousand Longevity Pills each, and they swallowed them.
• Xia Chuanliu and Huang Lanxin felt their life levels rise and their perception of the world sharpen after taking the pills.

Xia Ping explained the Ten Thousand Longevity Pills to his parents and warned them to keep their existence secret. He then helped Xiao Dai begin absorbing Cloud Sky Realm, but the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord interrupted from its prison beneath the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.

• Xia Ping told Xia Chuanliu and Huang Lanxin that the three Ten Thousand Longevity Pills had given them one hundred thousand years of life and warned them that revealing the pills could bring danger.
• Xia Chuanliu agreed to keep the pills secret and helped calm the people of Cloud Sky Realm.
• Xia Ping asked Xiao Dai whether she could fuse Cloud Sky Realm, and Xiao Dai explained that it was a Saint-created spatial treasure whose passage to Yanhuang Planet would remain intact inside her.
• Xiao Dai formed a colossal black hole and began devouring Cloud Sky Realm while its inhabitants remained calm after Xia Chuanliu notified them.
• A force erupted from beneath Cloud Sky Realm, slowed Xiao Dai's devouring, and made her tremble as the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord called for them to stop.

The Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord tried to stop Xia Ping from letting Xiao Dai devour the Cloud Sky Realm by offering him a way to reach the Map of Heavens' Creation. Xia Ping ignored the offer and ordered Xiao Dai to devour the Demon Lord.

• The Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord appeared above the Cloud Sky Realm and was shocked to see how much Xia Ping had grown.
• The Demon Lord panicked when it realized that Xiao Dai was a Gaia capable of devouring the realm and everything within it.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord offered Xia Ping information about the Map of Heavens' Creation, hoping to distract him and buy time to escape.
• Xia Ping dismissed the offer and told Xiao Dai to devour the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord.

Xia Ping and Xiao Dai captured the Cloud Sky Realm and subdued the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord, whose essence and laws began transforming Gaia Space. Xiao Dai neared the Saint Realm, while the energy she shared with Xia Ping pushed him close to the late Return to Truth Realm.

• Xiao Dai used Gaia’s devouring power to swallow the Cloud Sky Realm despite the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord’s threats.
• Xia Ping poured his mana into Xiao Dai, strengthening her as the Demon Lord’s attack struck her internal space without breaking through.
• Xiao Dai bound the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord with chains of order and began extracting its mana, Primordial Spirit, laws, and life energy.
• Gaia Space expanded into a vast cosmic void with the Cloud Sky Realm as a second continent, and Xiao Dai told Xia Ping she would reach the Saint Realm after refining the realm and Demon Lord.
• Xiao Dai shared some of the Demon Lord’s refined energy with Xia Ping, raising his Primordial Spirits and mana until he stood one step from the late Return to Truth Realm.

Xia Ping and Gaia Xiao Dai relocated the Cloud Sky Realm into Gaia Space, where Xiao Dai expanded it with hundreds of thousands of planets. The Federal Government announced the change as the start of a golden age, while the Sea Clan and Demon Race accepted that they could no longer challenge humanity.

• Xia Ping suppressed his breakthrough to the late Return to Truth Realm and stored the surplus energy from Xiao Dai’s transformation in his dantian.
• Xia Ping and Xiao Dai spent a month devouring planets, building nine vast continents in Gaia Space, and installing the Sky Net System there.
• The people of the Cloud Sky Realm noticed that their world had expanded dramatically and that spiritual energy and cultivation had improved.
• The Federal Government announced that Xia Ping had moved the Cloud Sky Realm into a dimensional space and promised humanity a golden age of cultivation.
• The Sea Clan and Demon Race Kings abandoned their schemes and resolved to integrate into human society after learning of Xia Ping’s power.

After improving through Gaia Space’s transformation, Xia Ping learned that an alien battleship was approaching Yanhuang Planet and went to investigate. The Yuanming Sect crew, led by Ma Gubo, decided to attack the planet and enslave its inhabitants.

• Xia Ping sensed that devouring the Cloud Sky Realm and the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Lord had greatly strengthened Xiao Dai and Gaia Space.
• Xia Chuanliu warned Xia Ping that an alien battleship was approaching Yanhuang Planet after destroying its observation probes.
• Xia Ping set off for Yanhuang Planet to inspect the incoming aliens.
• Ma Gubo and his Yuanming Sect crew discovered signs of natives and judged them weak enough to plunder.
• Ma Gubo ordered the battleship to attack Yanhuang Planet and enslave its inhabitants.

Ma Gubo and the Yuanming Sect invaded Yanhuang Planet, dismissing its people as powerless natives and demanding their submission. Xia Ping confronted them and mocked Ma Gubo’s strength, prompting the Dharma Image Realm elder to attack him.

• Ma Gubo surveyed Yanhuang Planet and decided its inhabitants were too weak to resist the Yuanming Sect.
• The Yuanming Sect’s warship entered Yanhuang Planet, and Ma Gubo sent several hundred cultivators out to face the planet’s defending spacecraft and martial artists.
• A Yuanming Sect disciple declared that the invaders had claimed the planet and threatened to enslave its people and slaughter anyone who resisted.
• Xia Ping stepped forward and warned the invaders that they would die if they attacked Yanhuang Planet.
• Ma Gubo discovered Xia Ping was a middle-stage Return to Truth Realm cultivator, then unleashed a mountain-shaped Dharma Image to force him to kneel.

Xia Ping defeated Ma Gubo and the Yuanming Sect disciples who attacked him, then destroyed their warship as they tried to flee. He ordered the surviving aliens captured and interrogated.

• Xia Ping shattered Ma Gubo’s Heaven-and-Earth Dharma Image with Lightning Fist and knocked him into a crater.
• Xia Ping pinned Ma Gubo underfoot, but Ma Gubo threatened him with the Yuanming Sect’s retaliation.
• Hundreds of Yuanming Sect disciples attacked Xia Ping, and he froze them with the Nine Heavens Mysterious Nether Force.
• The disciples aboard the black warship fled, so Xia Ping seized and crushed the ship with a Hell Golden Crow claw.
• Xia Ping ordered the surviving aliens captured alive and interrogated.

Xia Ping interrogated the captured Yuanming Sect disciples on Yanhuang Planet and discovered that the planet was in the Northern Universe. When Ma Gubo resisted, Xia Ping used the Conversion Scripture and a World Tree branch to break through his defenses, leaving him terrified and ready to reveal everything.

• Xia Ping learned that the prisoners belonged to the Yuanming Sect, a saint-level sect in the Northern Universe, and located Yanhuang Planet there.
• Ma Gubo refused to answer the Yanhuang Planet martial artists’ questions and declared that he would never betray his sect.
• Xia Ping revealed the Buddhist Conversion Scripture, frightening Ma Gubo, who recognized it as a forbidden cosmic technique.
• Xia Ping sent a branch of the World Tree into Ma Gubo’s soul, and Ma Gubo surrendered and promised to tell him everything.

Xia Ping used the Conversion Scripture to convert Ma Gubo and learned that Yuanming Sect disciples had reached Yanhuang Planet through a Storm Forbidden Region after being chased from a secret realm rich in space stones. He sent the converted disciples to protect humanity and his parents, while keeping Ma Gubo nearby to help find the secret realm.

• Ma Gubo surrendered, but Xia Ping refused to release him and used the Conversion Scripture to convert him into a loyal follower.
• Xia Ping questioned Ma Gubo and learned that the Yuanming Sect disciples had escaped a secret realm full of Void Beasts through a cosmic storm into the Storm Forbidden Region surrounding Yanhuang Planet.
• Green Ox urged Xia Ping to locate the secret realm because its space stones could restore the Mountain River Bead, and Ma Gubo said it lay not far outside the forbidden region.
• A day later, Xia Ping sent the converted Yuanming Sect disciples into Gaia Space to protect Federal Government officials and his parents.
• Xia Ping kept Ma Gubo by his side to help him find the space stones.

Xia Ping used the Wish Compass to guide his Star Ship through a safe passage in the spatial storms surrounding the Milky Way, then entered the secret realm where spatial stones were found. He discovered over a hundred warships fighting a horde of Voidbringer Beasts.

• Xia Ping reached the Milky Way’s spatial storms and learned from Ma Gubo that he could not explain how to cross them again.
• Xia Ping followed the Wish Compass through a hidden safe passage and considered concealing it with a formation.
• Ma Gubo pointed Xia Ping toward a moving secret realm, and Xia Ping flew through its azure gate.
• Ma Gubo explained that Voidbringer Beasts guarded the secret realm’s spatial stone veins and that his group had been defeated by them.
• Xia Ping sensed a battle ahead and discovered over a hundred warships fighting a large number of Voidbringer Beasts.

Xia Ping saw the Yuanming Sect and several other Northern Universe sects arrive in the secret realm and slaughter the Voidbringer Beasts. He infiltrated the factions to gather information while the Yuanming Sect elders began searching for spatial stone veins.

• Xia Ping and Ma Gubo watched warships from several sects kill tens of thousands of Voidbringer Beasts.
• Xia Ping recognized the sect insignias and chose to infiltrate the factions using the Formless Mask.
• Yuanming Sect Supreme Elder Liu Wen praised Ma Gubo's information and ordered the elders to strip the beasts' corpses for materials.
• Liu Wen blamed a spy for leaking news of the secret realm to rival sects, while another elder urged them to search for spatial stone veins before the passage collapsed.
• Liu Wen ordered the Yuanming Sect elders to search the secret realm for spatial stone veins.

As the sect elders fought the Voidbringer Beasts over a space stone vein, Xia Ping used the distraction to have the Golden Slime secretly strip the entire vein. He left with every space stone stored away while the others continued fighting.

• The elders from several sects schemed about taking the Yuanming Sect’s share of the space stones, but charged to battle when they learned the Yuanming Sect had found a vein.
• Xia Ping followed the forces unseen with the Formless Mask and spotted them fighting a hundred thousand Voidbringer Beasts.
• Xia Ping summoned the Golden Slime and ordered it to excavate the vein without digesting the space stones.
• The Golden Slime swallowed the entire remaining vein within minutes, leaving a vast underground cavity.
• Xia Ping watched the fighting forces, pleased that he had taken the treasure while they battled.

After defeating the Voidbringer Beasts, the Yuanming Sect and the other factions discovered that Wu Wudi had stripped the spatial stone vein bare while they fought. They found his taunting note but could not track him, and most decided to move on to another mine vein.

• The Yuanming Sect and the other factions defeated the Voidbringer Beasts, suffering heavy damage and casualties.
• The elders rushed to mine the spatial stones but found the vein completely empty.
• An elder of the Heavenly Mirror Sect concluded that someone had deliberately excavated the vein before them.
• The factions found Wu Wudi's note thanking them for holding off the beasts and offering to treat them to a meal.
• The Mysterious Heaven Sect elders recognized Wu Wudi and vowed to hunt him, but no one could find his trail.
• Most elders abandoned the search and set out to find another mine vein before the spatial passage vanished.

Yuanming Sect and the other sects planned to trap Wu Wudi after he repeatedly stole the spatial stones they uncovered. Meanwhile, Xia Ping followed the Golden Slime to a vast vein and discovered a Seven-Colored Divine Stone guarded by Voidbringer Beast Kings.

• The Yuanming Sect and other sect elders cursed Wu Wudi for following them and taking the spatial stones after they cleared away Voidbringer Beasts.
• An elder of Heavenly Mirror Sect proposed using a Heavenly Mirror Void-Piercing Grand Formation to trap Wu Wudi at a mineral vein, and the elders agreed to prepare the ambush.
• Xia Ping ignored their plans and followed the Golden Slime to a super-sized spatial stone vein beneath a mountain range teeming with Voidbringer Beasts.
• The Golden Slime tunneled silently underground and led Xia Ping toward the heart of the mountain range.
• Xia Ping discovered a seven-colored crystal in a vast underground hollow, where numerous Voidbringer Beast Kings guarded it.
• Green Ox identified the crystal as a Seven-Colored Divine Stone and urged Xia Ping to obtain it.

Xia Ping learned that the Seven-Colored Divine Stone could restore the Mountain River Bead and planned to use the sect forces to distract the Voidbringer Beast Kings so he could take it. Meanwhile, Yuanming Sect Supreme Elder Liu Wen suspected Ma Gubo was alive and hiding a treasure, and set out to track him down.

• Green Ox and Cat Immortal explained that the Seven-Colored Divine Stone was a rare spatial treasure that could help the Mountain River Bead recover much of its power.
• Xia Ping decided to lure the sect forces into drawing away the Voidbringer Beast Kings so he could seize the divine stone.
• The Yuanming Sect, Mysterious Heaven Sect, and Heavenly Sovereign Sect forces waited for Wu Wudi, but he never appeared.
• Yuanming Sect disciples found Ma Gubo's torn clothing, footprints, and traces of his aura, and speculated that he might still be alive.
• Liu Wen became convinced that Ma Gubo had faked his death to hide a secret treasure and said he would use the Heaven-Piercing Earth-Searching Soul-Seeking Divine Ability to locate him.

Liu Wen and the Yuanming Sect elders tracked Ma Gubo to a hidden mountain cave, where they found Xia Ping disguised as him. Pressured to answer for the missing disciples, Xia Ping claimed he had discovered an extraordinary secret, leaving the elders eager to learn what it was.

• Liu Wen led the Yuanming Sect elders to a remote mountain and revealed a concealed restriction formation that he had tracked Ma Gubo to.
• Liu Wen destroyed the formations, exposing Xia Ping disguised as Ma Gubo outside a cave.
• The elders accused Xia Ping of faking his death to hide a secret, while Xia Ping claimed he had only sought seclusion.
• Liu Wen demanded that Xia Ping return to the sect for questioning over the missing disciples who had died in a spatial storm.
• Xia Ping appeared to yield and said he had discovered a world-shaking fortuitous encounter.

Xia Ping claimed to have found a Seven-Colored Divine Stone hidden in a spatial-stone vein guarded by Voidbringer Beast Kings, drawing elders from several major sects into a dispute over the treasure. He led them to an underground tunnel toward the vein, and the elders entered to pursue it.

• Xia Ping told Liu Wen and the Yuanming Sect elders that he had found a Seven-Colored Divine Stone.
• Elders from the Ancient Moon Sect, Heavenly Mirror Sect, Mysterious Heaven Sect, and Heavenly Sovereign Sect appeared and demanded a share of the treasure.
• Liu Wen agreed to let the other sects join the search and asked Xia Ping where the stone was.
• Xia Ping said the Seven-Colored Divine Stone lay in a super vein guarded by Voidbringer Beast Kings and pointed out the tunnel he had dug to reach it.
• The elders inspected the tunnel, accepted Xia Ping's directions, and entered it to reach the vein.

Xia Ping used an illusion to infiltrate the Voidbringer Beasts’ cavern and seize the Seven-Colored Divine Stone. When the illusion broke, he threw the stone to a Mysterious Heaven Sect Supreme Elder and fled, leaving Liu Wen and the others exposed to the enraged Beast Kings.

• Liu Wen urged the elders to plan carefully before approaching the Seven-Colored Divine Stone in the Voidbringer Beasts’ nest.
• Xia Ping cast One Thought, One World, concealed his movements, and entered the cavern unnoticed.
• Xia Ping grabbed the Seven-Colored Divine Stone, whose spatial ripple shattered his illusion and revealed him to the cultivators and Beast Kings.
• The sect elders recognized Xia Ping as Wu Wudi, while the Voidbringer Beast Kings roared at the human intruder.
• Xia Ping hurled the Seven-Colored Divine Stone through the wall into the Mysterious Heaven Sect Supreme Elder’s hands, exposing Liu Wen and the others to the Beast Kings.
• Xia Ping fled while telling Liu Wen and the others to take the stone, and the Supreme Elder realized the surrounding cultivators feared for him.