Recaps

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu launched the National Pirate Plan, using cheap Qi-Blood Pills and Old Silver Coin’s written order to draw people toward the Bearded Pirate Group. Jiang Fu then set out with Shi Jiu to the Ling Family to demand that the Spirit Domain Laboratory’s seven researchers have their Sequences unlocked.

• Old Silver Coin gave Jiang Fu a written order bearing his Sequence mark after accepting the Bearded Pirate Group’s proposal and its pills.
• Su Yu warned that the order could tie Jiang Fu and his group to the Authorities, and she offered to manage the pill business.
• Jiang Fu revealed that the Bearded Pirate Group had a working pill factory on Moyuan Island, while Shi Yi explained that Old Six, Old Seven, and Old Eight were stealing from the Sikong Clan under Ling Chu’s identity.
• Jiang Fu declared the National Pirate Plan officially launched, and Shi Jiu suggested that the cheap Qi-Blood Pills could attract people to become pirates.
• Jiang Fu took Shi Jiu to the Ling Family with Old Silver Coin’s order to demand the unlocking of the seven Spirit Domain Laboratory researchers’ Sequences.

Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, Su Yu, and Shi Yi planned to use the Ling Family’s resources to unlock Sequences for Wei Junjie and six others while disguising their moves as the Ling Family’s business. They also plotted to expose Lingyue Pavilion and use the chaos to confront Sequence:001, leaving Shi Yi baffled by their schemes.

• Jiang Fu gave Su Yu Old Silver Coin’s order and told her to make the Ling Family provide resources and Sequence Martial Artists for the Sequence rituals.
• Su Yu overcame her fear of the Ling Family, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu said the weakened family would agree and benefit from the rituals.
• Jiang Fu confirmed the claims about Sequence and described a plan to attack Lingyue Pavilion, gather evidence, and turn Sequence Martial Artists against it.
• Shi Jiu said the Authorities could be dragged into the plan using Old Silver Coin’s order, and the group finalized their scheme to approach Sequence:001 in disguise.
• Jiang Fu called Shi Yi his brother-in-law and announced they would see what Sequence:001 was; Shi Jiu said the Ling Family would take the blame.

After the Ling Family’s estate was looted and District Sixty-Two fell under the Authorities’ control, the family tried to regroup. A disguised group claiming to represent the Authorities arrived with a task and promised the Ling Family seven bottles of a mysterious thing from the Abyss as compensation.

• Ling Feng rallied the Ling Family Martial Artists to rebuild after their estate was ransacked, while Ling Chengyue accepted that they had lost control of District Sixty-Two.
• Eleven black-robed figures entered the estate and mocked the Ling Family for being looted repeatedly.
• Fu claimed the group came from the Authorities to offer condolences, and Yu showed a written order bearing the Old Silver Coin Sequence mark.
• Yu announced that the Authorities had assigned the Ling Family to help seven prodigies unlock their Sequences, promising the family seven bottles of the thing that would descend from the Abyss.

Su Yu and the Authorities pressured the Ling Family into providing the resources and Sequence Martial Artists for a ceremony to open Sequences for seven supposed peerless geniuses. Only Wei Junjie succeeded, and Sequence:001 began to issue a Confidentiality Agreement before reacting with alarm.

• Su Yu told the Ling Family to supply the Abyss Fruits, Abyss Potion, venue, and Sequence Martial Artists, while Yi Youyou promised the Authorities would support the family's reconstruction.
• Ling Chengyue agreed to the arrangement, and Ling Feng gathered twenty-two Ling Family Sequence Martial Artists to conduct the ceremony for Wei Junjie and the other six.
• The ceremony opened a Sequence for Wei Junjie, but the other six showed no change.
• Jiang Fu wondered why his tenfold multiplication had not helped more of the group, while Shi Jiu said they would profit either way.
• Sequence:001 began forming the Abyss Potion Confidentiality Agreement, then abruptly changed its tone in alarm.

Wen Shuhe celebrated her successful hunt of a Boundary Beast King and learned that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had turned her plan against the Ling Family into a trap of their own. At the Ling Family’s Sequence Opening Ceremony, Sequence:001 attacked Ling Chengyue, and Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu realized the entity in the sky might not be a Sequence Martial Artist.

• Wen Shuhe returned from the Chaos Zone with a Boundary Beast King’s Crystal Core and enjoyed the strawberry-flavored Abyss Potion she had received from Tianhuang Martial Arts University.
• Wen Shuhe confirmed she had authorized the Ling Family to receive seven bottles of Abyss Potion for activating the Sequences of seven Martial Artists, then decided to visit the family in disguise.
• Sequence:001 attacked Ling Chengyue with a giant hand of black flames, and Ling Feng intervened, shattering the attack but suffering injuries.
• Jiang Fu used the Eye of Fraud to make Sequence:001 mistake Ling Chengyue for a target and attack her again, forcing Ling Feng to defend her.
• Shi Jiu pointed out that Sequence:001 had fled from Qing Ling on Moyuan Island, and Jiang Fu concluded that the entity in the sky was not a Sequence Martial Artist.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu tested Sequence:001 with a powerful spear strike and space control, but it left him unharmed. As Sequence:001 attacked Ling Chengyue again, Wen Shuhe appeared and revealed that she had sent the written order, then asked Jiang Fu whether she was beautiful.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu combined his multiplied spear strike with her space control to destroy Sequence:001’s flaming hand, but the enemy remained unharmed.
• Sequence:001 threatened the Ling Family and then charged at Ling Chengyue again, prompting Ling Feng and the Ling Family Martial Artists to protect him.
• Wen Shuhe appeared beside Jiang Fu’s group and explained that using a Sequence against Sequence:001, the source of Sequences, was futile.
• Wen Shuhe revealed that she had been the masked figure who gave them the written order, and Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu recognized her as the older person they had met earlier.
• Wen Shuhe asked if she was beautiful, and Jiang Fu praised her before insisting that Shi Jiu was heaven.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu watched Wei Junjie use his newly awakened Flame Mover Sequence against Sequence:001, discovering that the black flames could be weakened by Sequences. Ling Chengyue seized the opening to form a blade from darkness and strike Sequence:001.

• Jiang Fu suggested the Ling Family had provoked Sequence:001, while Shi Jiu recalled Sequence · Pianist fighting Ling Chengshuang with a piano.
• Jiang Fu asked Wei Junjie what Sequence he had awakened, and Wei Junjie explained that Flame Mover could strengthen or extinguish flames for a limited time.
• Shi Jiu urged Wei Junjie to use Flame Mover on Sequence:001, and Jiang Fu encouraged him to act.
• Wei Junjie strengthened Sequence:001's black flames, causing an explosion that blasted away the surrounding Ling Family Martial Artists.
• Wei Junjie extinguished ten percent of the flames, and Ling Chengyue unleashed his Sequence Power and formed a black blade from darkness.
• Ling Chengyue slashed at the stunned Sequence:001.

After Ling Chengyue defeated Sequence:001’s clone, Wei Junjie provoked the Ling Family by offering back an Abyss Potion they had expected him to keep. Su Yu and her companions denied working for the Authorities, and Su Yu revealed her newly refined Blood Moon Red Cloud Spear before naming herself and Wen Shuhe as pirates.

• Ling Chengyue used Black Annihilation to destroy Sequence:001’s clone, but Wen Shuhe explained that his original body had learned what happened.
• Wei Junjie returned an Abyss Potion to the Ling Family, then retrieved it when they did not answer, angering Ling Chengyue and Ling Feng.
• Su Yu denied that the group had come under an Authorities order, and Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, and Shi Yi backed her denial.
• Su Yu summoned the Blood Moon Red Cloud Spear and challenged the Ling Family, prompting Ling Feng to question her identity.
• Su Yu declared herself Pirate Xia Fei Redbeard of the Bearded Pirate Group and introduced Wen Shuhe as Pirate Xia Tao Redbeard.

Su Yu recruited Wen Shuhe into the Bearded Pirate Group by promising her vast supplies, and Wen Shuhe chose to join the robbery at the Ling Family’s expense. As the Pirates attacked, the fleeing Ling Family Sequence Martial Artists mysteriously turned on Ling Chengyue, leaving him surrounded by his own people.

• Su Yu urged Wen Shuhe to join the Bearded Pirate Group by promising her unlimited Invisibility Talismans, Abyss Potion, and other rewards.
• Shi Yi revealed that he was the Pirate Summer Blood-Redbeard and had previously robbed the Ling Family, exposing the group’s pirate identities to the family.
• Wen Shuhe agreed to rob the Ling Family and unleashed her aura, easily suppressing Ling Chengyue’s Sequence Power.
• Ling Feng and Ling Chengyue tried to resist while the Ling Family Sequence Martial Artists fled, and Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu prepared to pursue them.
• Ling Ye abruptly attacked Ling Chengyue, and other fleeing Sequence Martial Artists also turned back to attack the family head.
• Ling Feng knocked the attackers away, while Ling Chengyue was left bewildered as more of his own people charged at him.

Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, and Su Yu captured the Ling Family’s remaining Sequence Martial Artists while Wen Shuhe suppressed Ling Feng. When Ling Feng collapsed the sealed space and fled with Ling Chengyue, Shi Jiu restored the space, leaving the stranded Ling Family fighters for Su Yu to collect.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu knocked out Ling Feng’s scattered martial artists, and Su Yu stuffed them into a sack.
• Wei Junjie explained to Shi Yi and Wen Shuhe that the Bearded Pirate Group was robbing the Ling Family’s people as well as its property.
• Ling Feng seized Ling Chengyue, overpowered by Wen Shuhe, and collapsed the sealed space before fleeing into its depths.
• Shi Jiu halted the spatial collapse and restored the space, while Wen Shuhe accepted her place among the pirates as Lord Peach Redbeard.
• Shi Jiu reminded the stranded Ling Family fighters that Ling Feng had abandoned them, and Su Yu offered them the choice of entering the sack or being knocked out.

Su Yu used her upgraded Crimson King ability to erase the Ling Family’s memories of the black-clad visitors, leaving Ling Feng and Ling Chengyue terrified and confused. She then reached Moyuan Island and was stunned by its vast lake of Abyss Potion, while Wen Shuhe discovered that Xia Yuncang no longer recognized her.

• Wen Shuhe knocked out the remaining Ling Family Sequence Martial Artists and kicked them into Su Yu’s sack before Su Yu used her new Targeted Forgetting ability to erase the estate’s memories of the black-clad visitors.
• Ling Feng and Ling Chengyue returned to the estate and learned that no one remembered the visitors, prompting them to suspect the Bearded Pirates, the Authorities, or Sequence:001.
• Su Yu and Wen Shuhe arrived at Moyuan Island and stared in shock at the lake filled with Abyss Potion.
• Wen Shuhe spoke to Xia Yuncang, who did not recognize her in her younger appearance.

Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, and their allies discussed how to draw Lingyue Pavilion into a decisive fight at Zhenlong Island, where Goldbeard and Silverbeard were due to break through. After Shen Yan advised giving Lingyue Pavilion outside allies and the illusion of numerical superiority, the group considered how the Pavilion already suspected the Bearded Pirate Group and Xia Country the Authorities.

• Lü Pin and Qing Ling joked about Xia Yuncang and Wen Shuhe recognizing each other while pretending not to.
• The group reviewed Xia Fan’s campaign against the Bearded Pirate Group and his discovery of Zhenlong Island as the likely location of Goldbeard and Silverbeard’s breakthrough.
• Ouyang Zheng warned that Lingyue Pavilion did not fully trust Xia Fan and might not be lured into a trap by the current deployment.
• Shi Yi suggested contacting Shen Yan for advice, and Shi Jiu sent him a message.
• Shen Yan advised finding outside allies for Lingyue Pavilion so it would believe it had the advantage, and Shi Jiu relayed his plan.
• Qing Ling, Lü Pin, and Han Sichen explained that Lingyue Pavilion had always planned to oppose Xia Country and was wary of Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, leaving Shi Yi privately insisting he had only been testing them.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu learned that the older experts’ Sequences made it difficult for them to maintain secret identities, but Xia Yuncang and Wen Shuhe offered to handle Purplebeard’s plan using their aliases. After Xia Yuncang was surrounded by Xue Qianlan, Wen Shuhe, and Su Yu for insulting them, he surrendered, and Wen Shuhe began explaining her identity in Li Country and her role in bringing the Blazing Sun King into Xia Country.

• Lin Que explained that his and the other experts’ Sequences were too recognizable to conceal behind secret identities.
• Ouyang Zheng and Xue Qianlan argued over which university should take in Purplebeard, while Shi Yi insisted he belonged to Heavenly Desolation.
• Xia Yuncang appeared in a younger form, revealed that Xia Fan was his grandnephew, and credited Jiang Fu with helping Xia Fan break through to Transcendent.
• Xia Yuncang and Wen Shuhe agreed to handle Purplebeard’s plan, but Xia Yuncang provoked Xue Qianlan, Su Yu, and Wen Shuhe and surrendered when they prepared to attack.
• Wen Shuhe said she had taken the identity of a Sequence: Contract Creator in Li Country and used it to enter the country’s upper ranks, enabling the Blazing Sun King to reach Xia Country.

Wen Shuhe revealed that she had impersonated Li Country’s famed Sequence Contract Creator, while Xia Yuncang realized the Bearded Pirate Group was already tied to Xia Country. Xia Yuncang then claimed he could take over the Nether Phoenix Token, only for Shi Jiu to reveal that she was its current leader.

• Wen Shuhe explained that she had used a Heaven-Tier Upper Grade Sequence: Impostor mask to take the place of Li Country’s second-ranked Sequence Contract Creator.
• Xia Yuncang concluded that the Bearded Pirate Group’s central figures and forces already belonged to Xia Country, so he no longer needed to seize power.
• Xia Yuncang claimed he was a core member of the Nether Phoenix Token and planned to take control of it by killing its leader.
• Shi Jiu revealed that she was the current Nether Phoenix, having taken over after the previous leader died while she investigated her maternal grandparents’ deaths.
• Shi Jiu said the Nether Phoenix Token would not obey her successor and asked Jiang Fu to look for her identity token.

Shi Jiu’s allies learned that she was the new Nether Phoenix and uncovered evidence that the previous Nether Phoenix was still alive and plotting against her. Wen Shuhe proposed using Shi Jiu’s public appearance to draw the previous Nether Phoenix into a trap.

• Xia Yuncang revealed that he had been seeking to kill the new Nether Phoenix and seize her token, then realized Shi Jiu was the target he had been hunting.
• Shi Jiu explained that the Nether Phoenix Token had not supported her, so she had severed ties with the organization and abandoned the identity.
• Jiang Fu tested a pebble with his Potion and concluded that the previous Nether Phoenix was alive and plotting against Shi Jiu.
• Lin Que found a Saint Entry expert’s spiritual imprint on the Nether Phoenix token, which could track its location.
• Xia Yuncang accepted the token and suggested that the Bearded Pirate Group could take over the Nether Phoenix Token.
• Wen Shuhe proposed inviting the Nether Phoenix and her organization to help surround the Evil Ghost Team and Seventh Team, expecting Shi Jiu’s public appearance to draw out the previous Nether Phoenix.

Wen Shuhe and Xia Yuncang devised a plan to use the Nether Phoenix Token to hire an attack on Li Country, while Jiang Fu questioned the token’s origins and shifted the group’s attention to Lingyue Pavilion. The group prepared for a counterattack, suspecting Lingyue Pavilion had finished developing its Gu Master Insect Pills.

• Wen Shuhe and Xia Yuncang discussed Li Country’s conflict with Xia Country and considered hiring the Nether Phoenix Token to target Li Country during the war against the Bearded Pirate Group.
• Xia Yuncang warned Shi Jiu that the Previous Nether Phoenix might have chosen him as heir to obtain the opportunity Ning Chengfeng and Yun Luoyu had left behind.
• Jiang Fu questioned whether the Nether Phoenix Token referred to the organization or the token itself, and concluded the token might not be from their world.
• Wen Shuhe urged the group to focus on Lingyue Pavilion, and Jiang Fu agreed while warning them to prepare for a sneak attack.
• Su Yu warned that the Sikong Clan Laboratory had helped Lingyue Pavilion develop Gu Master Insect Pills and might already have completed them.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu assumed Lingyue Pavilion might suspect their alliance with Xia Country and called for backup plans as Han Sichen took notes on their strategies.

Lingyue Pavilion prepared to seize its Jiangcheng Research Institute on Zhenlong Island while learning that Li Country and six other countries had summoned the Nether Phoenix Token to join the assault. The Slaughter Lord revealed he served the Nether Phoenix as one of the Seven Great Envoys, just as the Token summoned him.

• Xing Bin told the Prison Lord and Slaughter Lord that Lingyue Pavilion had located its research institute on Zhenlong Island and warned that Xia Country might be luring them into a trap.
• Xing Bin proposed waiting until Pirate Goldbeard and Pirate Silverbeard had stabilized after their breakthroughs before attacking, while the Sequence Contract prevented Lingyue Pavilion from striking Xia Country's forces.
• You Xianfeng reported that a Parasite-controlled member of Li Country's upper ranks had revealed that Li Country and seven other countries planned to recruit the Nether Phoenix to attack Xia Country.
• You Xianfeng said Xia Fan had publicized the research institute's location, prompting the countries to summon the Nether Phoenix's forces to Zhenlong Island.
• The Slaughter Lord told the Prison Lord to keep Li Country in check and vowed to kill the Nether Phoenix and take the token.
• The Slaughter Lord revealed he was one of the Seven Great Envoys serving under Nether Phoenix, and an encrypted summons from the Nether Phoenix Token appeared on his phone.

Slaughter Lord and the Nether Phoenix Token’s defectors prepared to kill Little Nether Phoenix and seize the Token, while Xia Fan was removed as leader of the Anti-White-Beard Alliance. The conspirators gathered at sea, unaware that one of them had recognized Little Nether Phoenix as her disciple.

• Slaughter Lord recognized the Dark Phoenix Summons as Little Nether Phoenix’s call and warned Prison Lord that it could be a trap.
• Shi Si dismissed Xia Fan from his Alliance Leader post, and Xia Fan pretended to protest before leaving in barely contained delight.
• Shi Si ordered the alliance to kill Goldbeard and Silver Comb if they attempted to break through on Zhenlong Island, while a bald man demanded Pinkbeard for himself.
• Four Order Envoys and nine Core Members of the Nether Phoenix Token assembled at sea to kill Little Nether Phoenix and seize the Token.
• A woman among the Core Members anticipated finding her dear disciple, revealing that she knew Little Nether Phoenix’s identity.

Slaughter Lord and the other Nether Phoenix Token members headed for Zhenlong Island, suspecting that Shi Jiu was the missing Nether Phoenix. On the island, Jiang Fu explained to Shi Yi that Lingyue Pavilion had exposed the Insect Pills to sow distrust, before two Spirit Qi vortices appeared at dawn.

• Slaughter Lord saw that Nether Phoenix's coordinates pointed to Zhenlong Island and considered whether Shi Jiu was Pirate Redbeard and the current Nether Phoenix.
• Four envoys and nine Core Members set out across the sea to find Nether Phoenix, intending to claim the Underworld Phoenix Order Token while staying alert to the Bearded Pirates' techniques.
• Shi Yi asked Jiang Fu why Lingyue Pavilion had exposed the Insect Pills, and Jiang Fu explained that their purpose was to provoke suspicion and division in Xia Country.
• Jiang Fu said the Authorities' Silver Mask Saints had no Parasites and that killing the Sequence · Insect Master would kill his gu insects as well.
• Shi Yi began reading The Brain-Training Book for Smart People while Shi Jiu slept in Jiang Fu's arms.
• At dawn, two Spirit Qi vortices rose over Zhenlong Island, and the martial artists hiding nearby celebrated that their prediction had been right.

As Goldbeard and Silverbeard completed their breakthroughs on Zhenlong Island, a massive alliance sealed the surrounding sea and launched an assault to wipe out the Bearded Pirate Group. Yun Yi discovered the group included professors, officials, and a Saint Entry Silver Mask in disguise, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu equipped their allies as battle began.

• The assembled forces waited for Goldbeard and Silverbeard to finish breaking through while Lingyue Pavilion deployed space-sealing Sequence Items to block escape.
• After three hours, Goldbeard and Silverbeard completed their breakthroughs, and the alliance ordered its forces to attack Zhenlong Island.
• Lingyue Pavilion raised a vast barrier with eight Eyes of Insight and used more than twenty Heaven-Tier Upper Grade Sequence Items to seal and survey the area.
• Yun Yi found that the Bearded Pirate Group included professors and Transcendent Teachers from two martial arts universities, along with the Authorities' Commander and a Saint Entry Silver Mask disguised as Cherry Redbeard.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu distributed Invisibility Talismans, Defensive Artifacts, and Abyss Potions to the Bluebeard and Pinkbeard groups as the island filled with laughter before the battle.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu equipped the Bearded Pirate Group’s elite fighters with powerful treasures, while Wen Shuhe urged Yun Yi to reach Saint Entry and join Xia Country’s Silver Masks. At Zhenlong Island, Slaughter Lord tried to recruit Goldbeard, who challenged him to move him with a single blow, and his golden defense shattered the attack.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu handed out Invisibility Talismans, Abyss Potions, and Defensive Artifacts to the 506 elite members of the Bearded Pirate Group.
• Wen Shuhe gave Yun Yi his set of treasures and told him to cultivate toward Saint Entry so he could become Xia Country’s eighteenth Silver Mask.
• Slaughter Lord confronted Goldbeard at Zhenlong Island, identified him as a Sequence Slayer, and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Goldbeard agreed to the offer on the condition that Slaughter Lord could move him with a blow, and promised that otherwise Slaughter Lord would become his disciple.
• Slaughter Lord struck Goldbeard with a blade formed from the Slaughter Sequence, but Goldbeard’s golden radiance shattered the attack.

Lingyue Pavilion and allied forces attacked Zhenlong Island, where Goldbeard used the Emperor-Grade Defensive Sequence Item Golden Mist to withstand Slaughter Lord. As the invaders were overwhelmed by a torrent of Flowery Beards, Jiang Fu spotted eight Twelfth Tier Eyes of Insight and planned to use them to upgrade the True-Seeing Glasses.

• Lingyue Pavilion's forces surrounded Zhenlong Island and launched formations at it, confident their Spatial Lock had shut down the Space Sequence.
• Goldbeard blocked Slaughter Lord's attacks with Golden Mist, then followed Jiang Fu's instruction to fight back and learn from Slaughter Lord's increasingly fierce martial abilities.
• Allied troops charged onto Zhenlong Island, where thousands of Flowery Beards surged out and swallowed up their ranks.
• The allied forces recalled Alliance Leader Xia's warning not to charge recklessly, but continued to believe their regular armies could defeat the Bearded Pirate Group.
• Jiang Fu noticed eight Twelfth Tier Eyes of Insight watching the island and said they could be used to upgrade the True-Seeing Glasses, leaving Yun Yi, Wen Shuhe, and the others dumbfounded.

Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, and the Bearded Pirates turned the attack on Zhenlong Island into a counterstrike, while the attackers were trapped in a Spatial Maze. Shi Si blamed Lingyue Pavilion for conspiring with the Bearded Pirates, and the accusation left Lingyue Pavilion's people delighted.

• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu flew toward the eight Heaven-Tier Upper Grade Eyes of Insight, then urged Wen Shuhe and the others to attack the Martial Artists waiting offshore.
• The Bearded Pirates used their Invisibility Talismans to leave Zhenlong Island and ambush the rear guard, while Yun Yi claimed the cannon that could fire Formations.
• The Ultimate Dao Trickster's Eye and a Spatial Maze sent the Martial Artists who charged onto the island into an unfamiliar space with Boundary Beast Kings and a Domain Demon.
• Xia Yuncang recognized the Reality Sequence and Spatial Maze, but the Prison Lord insisted Lingyue Pavilion's Spatial Seals had already sealed the space.
• Shi Si accused Lingyue Pavilion of working with Shi Yuehan and the Bearded Pirates to lure the factions into a trap, and Lingyue Pavilion's people welcomed the accusation.

Shi Si turned suspicion toward Lingyue Pavilion and used the danger of a hidden Bearded Pirate mole to oppose a united attack on the Spatial Maze. He demanded that everyone sign a Contract not to attack one another, leaving the trapped Martial Artists facing his ultimatum.

• Shi Si accused Lingyue Pavilion of masterminding the Bearded Pirate Group, prompting Xia Country’s Martial Artists and others to distance themselves from Lingyue Pavilion.
• Xin Musen and Lingyue Pavilion’s Heavenly Beings questioned the Prison Lord, who angrily denied any connection to the pirates as the crowd’s suspicion turned against her group.
• Xia Yuncang demanded that the Prison Lord explain the Jiangcheng research institute’s plunder and why Lingyue Pavilion’s Eyes of Insight and Spatial Lockdowns had failed to detect the Spatial Maze.
• A Soulless Order Envoy urged the crowd to work together to break the maze, but Shi Si warned that a hidden mole could attack them during a combined strike.
• Shi Si said Xia Country would rather remain trapped or jump from the maze than risk a sneak attack unless everyone agreed by Contract not to attack one another, then looked toward Martial Artists from Li Country, Aka Country, and six other nations.

Shi Si revealed that he and the Evil Ghost Team were the Bearded Pirate Group’s Death Barbie Pink Team after they had secretly attacked Lingyue Pavilion’s leaders. The gathered forces’ attempt to break the Spatial Maze failed, leaving them facing the pink-haired pirates.

• The factions agreed to sign a Sequence Contract forbidding attacks on one another inside the Spatial Maze, and their representatives created and signed it.
• Wuhun located a spatial node and led the gathered forces in a full-strength attack, but the Spatial Maze remained unharmed.
• Xin Musen accused Shi Si of attacking him and demanded to know why the Sequence Contract had not retaliated.
• Shi Si revealed his bright pink hair and announced himself as Death Barbie Pinkbeard of the Bearded Pirate Group.
• The Evil Ghost Team removed their hats, revealed matching pink hair, and announced themselves as the Death Barbie Pink Team.