Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping overwhelmed Black Wind Old Demon, who summoned eighteen Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans to turn the fight around. Xia Ping fed the talismans Dragon Blood, awakening their resentment and driving Black Wind Old Demon's demon power out.

• Xia Ping injured Black Wind Old Demon with a blazing punch and pressed the attack.
• Black Wind Old Demon summoned its eighteen Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans and drew on their power.
• Xia Ping recognized the talismans' resentment and struck them with Dragon Blood from the Mountain River Bead.
• Black Wind Old Demon mistook the Dragon Blood for a gift and began trying to use the talismans to reach the Lightning Tribulation Realm.
• The Ancient Heavenly Dragons regained clarity and began expelling Black Wind Old Demon's demon power.

Xia Ping freed the eighteen Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans from Black Wind Old Demon's control, and they devoured the demon before recognizing Xia Ping as their master. Their power merged with the twenty-eight talismans already inside him, greatly strengthening his mana and Primordial Spirits; Xia Ping kept Black Wind Old Demon's head to display at his residence.

• Black Wind Old Demon tried to activate the blood-contract seeds in the eighteen Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans, but they remained unmoved.
• Black Wind Old Demon accused Xia Ping of interfering, and Xia Ping ordered the Ancient Heavenly Dragons to attack.
• The eighteen Ancient Heavenly Dragons tore apart Black Wind Old Demon's body and devoured its Primordial Spirit.
• The Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans entered Xia Ping's body and voluntarily recognized him as their master.
• All forty-six Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans formed a new formation, pouring power into Xia Ping and strengthening his mana and Primordial Spirits.
• Xia Ping destroyed Black Wind Old Demon's scattered remains but kept its head to display at his residence.

After Wu Taidou killed Black Wind Old Monster and displayed his head, Emerald City erupted with rumors and reactions. Fox Sanniang sought to strengthen her partnership with Wu Taidou, while the Myriad Demon Pavilion vowed revenge and awaited reinforcements from headquarters.

• Demons across Emerald City discovered Black Wind Old Monster's head at Wu Taidou's residence and spread news of his death.
• The city's demons discussed Wu Taidou's killing of Black Wind Old Monster, with many welcoming the Myriad Demon Pavilion's misfortune.
• Fox Sanniang learned of Black Wind Old Monster's death, reconsidered Wu Taidou's strength, and ordered a generous congratulatory gift sent to him.
• The Myriad Demon Pavilion's demons demanded vengeance against Wu Taidou, and its deputy pavilion master said headquarters would send senior officers to deal with him.

Emerald Lord decided to recruit Xia Ping into Emerald City’s search party for the Black Hole Worm, while Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan confronted Xia Ping over his killing of Black Wind Old Demon. The chapter ended as Xia Ping sensed a guest arriving.

• Emerald City’s demons celebrated Black Wind Old Demon’s death, then speculated that Wu Taidou had come to seek the Black Hole Worm.
• Emerald Lord argued that Emerald City needed powerful allies and decided to personally invite Wu Taidou to join its search party.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan learned that Xia Ping had killed Black Wind Old Demon and worried that the Myriad Demon Pavilion would hunt them down.
• Xia Ping dismissed Rabbit Linglong’s fears and claimed that killing Black Wind Old Demon would help them obtain the Black Hole Worm.
• Xia Ping announced that a guest had arrived.

The Emerald Lord visited Xia Ping and invited him to join Emerald City’s effort to seize the Black Hole Worms. Xia Ping agreed to attend a gathering with the other contenders, leaving Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan amazed at how quickly he became an honored guest.

• The Emerald Lord arrived at Xia Ping’s residence and presented him with a Space Ring containing treasures worth at least one hundred million demon coins.
• The Emerald Lord invited Xia Ping to join Emerald City in pursuing the Black Hole Worm and explained that its nest was expected to emerge near the city.
• Xia Ping asked what Emerald City could offer him, and the Emerald Lord admitted his city had little advantage but promised not to pry into Xia Ping’s secrets.
• Xia Ping accepted the invitation, and the Emerald Lord asked him to meet at the City Lord’s Mansion that night to meet other powerful demons.
• Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan were left speechless at Xia Ping’s sudden rise from undocumented resident to honored guest.

Xia Ping attended the Emerald Lord’s banquet to build ties with the factions pursuing the Black Hole Worm, but his strength was challenged by the assembled demons. After he battered the Thunder Hound, a Golden Light Leopard stepped forward to demand a fair fight.

• Xia Ping explained to Rabbit Linglong and Qingluan that joining the Emerald Lord’s group would help them gather intelligence and exploit the other factions.
• Xia Ping attended the City Lord’s Mansion banquet alone, where the Emerald Lord introduced him to the powerful demons gathered there.
• A Thunder Hound objected that Xia Ping was too weak to join the Black Hole Worm expedition and suggested his victory over the Black Wind Old Monster depended on a secret treasure.
• Xia Ping struck the Thunder Hound with a blazing punch, sending it crashing into the City Lord’s Mansion wall and leaving it injured.
• Xia Ping challenged the assembled demons to test his strength, and a Golden Light Leopard stepped forward, accusing him of taking the Thunder Hound by surprise and demanding a fair fight.

Xia Ping crushed the Golden Light Leopard with one palm and intimidated the demons gathered at the City Lord's Mansion. After the Rock Tiger Demon challenged him, the Emerald Lord intervened, leaving the gathering focused on the Black Hole Worm rather than an internal fight.

• Xia Ping struck the Golden Light Leopard down with one palm, gravely wounding it despite its Golden Light divine ability.
• The demons in the hall reassessed Xia Ping's strength, while the Emerald Lord realized its attempt to test him had failed.
• The Rock Tiger Demon challenged Xia Ping, but Xia Ping released his Hell Golden Crow aura and suppressed it with fear.
• The Emerald Lord mediated, and Xia Ping agreed to stand down while warning the demons not to offend him again.
• The Rock Tiger Demon accepted the way out, and the Lightning Tribulation Realm demons began treating Xia Ping as their equal.

Xia Ping traded ten thousand tons of Crystal Fragrant Rice to Emerald Lord and the other demons for large quantities of resources. Several days later, the Black Hole Worm emerged, shaking Emerald City and the surrounding region.

• Emerald Lord asked Xia Ping why he had spent his demon coins, and Xia Ping said he enjoyed the thrill of lavish spending.
• Emerald Lord and the other demons asked to trade for Xia Ping’s Crystal Fragrant Rice, and Xia Ping agreed.
• Xia Ping offered ten thousand tons of rice in exchange for ore, spirit medicine, pills, and other resources.
• Several days later, Xia Ping, Cat Immortal, and Green Ox admired the resources gathered inside the Mountain River Bead.
• The Black Hole Worm emerged, causing Emerald City and tens of thousands of kilometers around it to shake.

Xia Ping and the demon kings of Emerald City raced to the Black Hole Worm’s enormous insect nest, only to find its Spatial Barriers impervious to attack. The Emerald Lord explained that they needed hidden spatial coordinates to enter, and Xia Ping immediately found one, astonishing the gathered demon kings.

• The Emerald Lord led several hundred demon kings, including Xia Ping, Rabbit Linglong, and Qingluan, from Emerald City toward the Black Hole Worm’s insect nest.
• The demon kings saw that the vast nest was protected by Spatial Barriers, and a Bull Demon King injured itself when its attack rebounded.
• The Emerald Lord explained that the nest could be entered through hidden spatial coordinates and asked the demon kings to search for them.
• Xia Ping used the Hell Golden Crow Eye to locate and pull a spatial coordinate from the void, then credited his unmatched fortune for finding it.
• The Emerald Lord and the other demon kings stared at Xia Ping in disbelief and grew jealous of his apparent luck.

Xia Ping found the worm nest's spatial coordinate, then faced a surprise attack from Feng Ganglie, the son of Storm City's lord. After Xia Ping defied him, the Emerald Lord tried to calm Feng Ganglie and apologize on Xia Ping's behalf.

• The Emerald Lord congratulated Xia Ping for finding the spatial coordinate, while Xia Ping claimed leadership over the Demon Kings.
• Feng Ganglie appeared behind Xia Ping and attacked him with Storm City's Wind Emperor Palm.
• Xia Ping countered with the Yang God Fist, shattered Feng Ganglie's attack, and demanded that he kneel and apologize.
• Feng Ganglie revealed his identity as Storm City's lord's son and threatened Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord.
• The Emerald Lord, alarmed by Storm City's power, offered to apologize for Xia Ping's words.

Xia Ping provoked Feng Ganglie until the young lord of Storm City ordered his forces to attack Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord’s group. Feng Ganglie’s Corrosive Storm killed several Demon Kings, and the Emerald Lord’s allies began fighting back.

• Xia Ping declared the Emerald Lord his friend and threatened to destroy Storm City if it harmed Emerald City.
• Feng Ganglie became enraged, vowed to hunt down Xia Ping’s associates and relatives, and summoned several hundred Demon Kings.
• Xia Ping taunted Feng Ganglie’s forces, prompting Feng Ganglie to attack and demand the spatial coordinates of the insect nest.
• Feng Ganglie unleashed his Corrosive Storm, melting several Demon Kings caught at the front of the attack.
• The Black Bone Clan’s Great Elder trapped Feng Ganglie with Black Bone Forest, while the Demon Butterfly Clan’s Great Elder and the Wind Mosquito Clan’s Great Elder attacked the opposing Demon Kings.

Feng Ganglie used the Wind Demon Body and a formation of Demon Kings to withstand the Emerald Lord and the others, then unleashed devastating winds against them. Xia Ping intervened with the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman, and its forty-six dragons shattered Feng Ganglie’s storms.

• Feng Ganglie used his Wind Demon Body to recover from the Demon Kings’ attacks, and the Emerald Lord explained that only soul attacks could harm him.
• Feng Ganglie unleashed several types of destructive wind against the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings, leaving them fearing defeat.
• Xia Ping summoned forty-six Ancient Heavenly Dragons with the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman to protect his friends.
• The Ancient Heavenly Dragons struck together and dispersed Feng Ganglie’s storms.

Xia Ping used the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans to defeat Feng Ganglie, who burned his bloodline and lifespan to escape with the Hidden Wind technique. Xia Ping let him go so the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings would remain dependent on him.

• Feng Ganglie recognized Xia Ping's Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans, while the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings realized they had helped kill Black Wind Old Demon.
• Xia Ping attacked Feng Ganglie with the talismans, whose power had grown after merging with Black Wind Old Demon's eighteen talismans.
• Feng Ganglie and several hundred Demon Kings formed an array, but the Ancient Heavenly Dragons shattered the Wind God Barrier and broke the array, killing several Demon Kings in the backlash.
• Feng Ganglie burned his bloodline and lifespan to activate Hidden Wind and flee into the void.
• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings tried to pursue Feng Ganglie, but Xia Ping let him escape and Feng Ganglie threatened him as he vanished.

Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord’s group defeated the Storm City Demon Kings, collected the spoils, and entered the worm nest using temporary spatial coordinates. They left other Demon Kings behind to seek their own way in, while Feng Ganglie escaped and the threat from Storm City remained.

• Xia Ping and the Emerald Lord’s group slaughtered most of the Storm City Demon Kings, though Feng Ganglie escaped.
• Xia Ping collected nearly all the treasures, while the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings pretended to refuse their share.
• Xia Ping refined the spatial coordinates and opened a temporary passage into the worm nest.
• Xia Ping and the other Demon Kings entered the passage, which vanished after them.
• Nearby Demon Kings discussed Xia Ping’s power and hurried off to search for other spatial coordinates.

Xia Ping entered the Worm Nest and learned that Black Hole Worms hid in dangerous dimensional nests scattered across it. After several Demon Kings died in a flame-filled decoy nest, Qingluan sensed a possible opportunity northwest, and Xia Ping prepared to follow her lead.

• Xia Ping entered the Worm Nest and found barren planets, while the Emerald Lord explained that Black Hole Worms lived in dimensional nests.
• The Emerald Lord pointed out a black hole passage, and several Demon Kings rushed inside to seize a Black Hole Worm.
• The Demon Kings were trapped in a world of exotic flames and burned to ashes before Xia Ping and the others could or would save them.
• The Emerald Lord explained that Black Hole Worms made multiple hazardous nests as traps, and Xia Ping resolved to find a worm quickly and leave the Demon World.
• Qingluan told Xia Ping that she sensed a great opportunity, possibly a Black Hole Worm, to the northwest.

As Xia Ping led the Demon Kings northwest through the enormous worm nest, their frustration grew over his refusal to change course and his earlier conflict with Storm City. The Emerald Lord persuaded them to keep using Xia Ping’s strength for now, then proposed ambushing him when he was weakened to take his Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talismans.

• Xia Ping kept flying northwest for three days on Qingluan’s directions, despite finding only desolate planets and dangerous trap nests.
• Several Demon Kings secretly complained that Xia Ping ignored their advice and had endangered their standing with Storm City.
• The Emerald Lord urged the Demon Kings to tolerate Xia Ping until they found the Black Hole Worms, since his talismans could help them overcome threats.
• A Demon King warned that Xia Ping might claim all the Black Hole Worms and turn against them.
• The Emerald Lord proposed waiting until Xia Ping was badly wounded in a fight, then ambushing him and taking his talismans.

Xia Ping and the Demon Kings found a vast Black Hole Worm nest surrounded by a battle between thousands of powerful demons. The Emerald Lord saw more than a thousand worm eggs inside and secretly planned to seize them and the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman.

• The Emerald Lord united the Demon Kings against Wu Taidou while secretly intending to kill his allies and claim the Ancient Heavenly Dragon Talisman for himself.
• Xia Ping and the Demon Kings sensed a fierce battle nearby and hurried toward it, hoping to find treasure.
• Xia Ping and the others arrived at a huge nest guarded by Black Hole Worms that attacked enemies with energy drawn from other dimensions.
• Xia Ping discovered that more than two hundred thousand Demon Kings, including over ten thousand Lightning Tribulation Realm experts, were besieging the nest alongside many famous titled Demon Kings.
• The Emerald Lord spotted over a hundred mature Black Hole Worms and more than a thousand eggs inside the nest, prompting the Demon Kings to covet the potential treasure.

Xia Ping discovered a King Worm egg among the Black Hole Worm nest, drawing the attention of the Demon Kings gathered nearby. While the Emerald Lord urged his group to wait for stronger rivals to weaken one another, Xia Ping declared that he would charge in and seize the worms.

• Xia Ping used his Hell Golden Crow Eye to spot a powerful black egg above the other worm eggs.
• The Emerald Lord identified it as a King Worm egg and explained its rarity, command over Black Hole Worms, and ability to boost their reproduction.
• A greedy Demon King urged the group to seize the egg, but the Emerald Lord warned that the battlefield was crowded with powerful Demon Kings and proposed waiting for an opening.
• Xia Ping decided he wanted the King Worm, the mature worms, and the eggs for himself.
• Xia Ping called on the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings to join him in taking the nest, then boasted that he would lead the charge while they stayed behind.
• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings stared in disbelief, convinced that Xia Ping was rushing toward certain death.

Xia Ping ignored warnings from the Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings and entered the battle over the Black Hole Worms, demanding that everyone hand the worms and King Worm over to him. The Demon Kings mocked and threatened him, while Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong wondered what he was planning, and Xia Ping prepared to make the Demon World remember Wu Taidou.

• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings tried to stop Xia Ping from entering the battle, but he declared that he would use the Demon Kings as stepping stones to become a Demon Saint.
• Xia Ping flashed into the battlefield, causing the fighting Demon Kings and Black Hole Worms to stop and look at him.
• Xia Ping demanded that the Demon Kings give him face and let him take the worm eggs and King Worm.
• The Mighty Whale King mocked Xia Ping, and the Flood Dragon King cursed and ordered him to leave.
• The Emerald Lord and the other Demon Kings were stunned by Xia Ping's audacity, while Qingluan and Rabbit Linglong watched from inside the Mountain River Bead.
• Xia Ping remained calm, confident in his strength and secret treasures, and resolved to leave the Demon Kings with an unforgettable impression of Wu Taidou.

Xia Ping used the Formless Mask to pass through the Black Hole Worm nest’s defenses and seize every worm egg. He then began refining the nest’s spatial formation, leaving the Demon Kings and Black Hole Worms attacking him.

• Xia Ping changed his aura to resemble a Black Hole Worm, bypassed the nest’s restrictions, and reached its deepest region.
• Xia Ping collected all the Black Hole Worm eggs while the Demon Kings and Black Hole Worms shouted threats at him.
• The Black Hole Worms attacked Xia Ping with a torrent of energy, but he remained inside the nest and examined its spatial formation.
• Xia Ping found the nest’s formation core and instructed the system to refine the Small Insect Nest for fifty Hate Crystals.