Chapter Summaries

The Transcendents fought off a massive assault on Ink Abyss Island while Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu identified the Realm Beasts’ crowns as a possible key to their power. As the World Beast Tribulation charged the island, Jiang Fu multiplied the island’s defenses and recoil.

• Jiang Wuzhou, aided by Shi Qingluan’s Deceiver Sequence and Jian Nanqiu’s Peerless Sword, attacked Realm Beast Calamity while the Transcendents fought the Mutated Beasts coming ashore.
• Shi Jiu used the Eye of Insight to spot twenty-four Realm Beasts and warned that their crowns might let them combine their power.
• Jiang Fu covered the unguarded parts of Ink Abyss Island in Poison Mist, which killed or weakened the invading beasts.
• The Realm Beasts’ rain and waves weakened the Poison Mist as the World Beast Tribulation struck Ink Abyss Island from below.
• Jiang Fu multiplied the island’s defense, hardness, toughness, reef sharpness, and recoil before the World Beast Tribulation charged again.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu captured the Realm Beast Tribulation and watched the exhausted defenders of Ink Abyss Island face three enormous Realm Beasts. They arrived just as the defenders prepared to die, and Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu turned their attention to capturing the beasts.

• Jiang Fu used his Lonely Moon swords to sever the Realm Beast Tribulation’s crown, but another crown immediately grew in its place.
• Jiang Fu dragged the unconscious Realm Beast Tribulation into the World Beast Cage while Shi Jiu fought off Mutated Beasts trying to seize her.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu delayed rescuing the defenders until they were at the brink of death, and Shi Jiu found no Blue Ringed Octopus near Ink Abyss Island.
• Shi Qingluan and the exhausted Transcendent Martial Artists prepared to face three enormous Realm Beasts after their abilities and strength ran out.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu appeared in the sky amid a chase involving the Bearded Pirates, then decided to capture the Realm Beasts first.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu confronted three Realm Beast Kings on Ink Abyss Island while the exhausted Transcendents watched. Azure Feather shattered the Realm Beast Tribulation’s shell, while Black Bone and Larval Soul headed toward the Space Mirror and became trapped in a maze of Space Storms.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu appeared above the beach, relieving the exhausted Tianhuang Martial Arts University Transcendents.
• Xia Whitebeard and the other three beards threatened Tianhuang Martial Arts University before vanishing, and Shi Qingluan vowed to return with reinforcements.
• Jiang Fu warned the Transcendents back as the Realm Beast Tribulation appeared, while he and Shi Jiu watched from behind a reef and identified Azure Feather, Black Bone, and Larval Soul as Realm Beast Kings.
• Jiang Fu swung the Realm Beast Tribulation at Azure Feather, which shattered its tortoiseshell with a headbutt and awakened it with pain.
• Black Bone and Larval Soul headed toward the Space Mirror, but Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu watched them enter a maze filled with violent Space Storms.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu used their island defenses and Old Deng's Spatial Maze to trap Realm Beast Kings Azure Feather, Black Bone, and Larval Soul after realizing they could not defeat Azure Feather directly. The three kings remained alive but were sealed inside the maze, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu worried that stronger enemies could come later.

• Black Bone and Larval Soul realized the human Transcendents were bait, while their combined defenses barely held against the Space Storm inside the shattered World Beast Tribulation.
• Jiang Fu used Multiply Quantity by Ten on the Star Shuttle to turn ten Realm Beasts into a propeller and launch it at Azure Feather, but Azure Feather destroyed it with wind blades.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu concluded that their attacks could not defeat Azure Feather and decided to rely on Old Deng's Spatial Maze instead.
• Azure Feather raced underground toward the battle between Black Bone and Larval Soul, while Shi Jiu tracked him through the Eternal Eye of Insight.
• Shi Jiu sensed that all three Realm Beast Kings were still alive but trapped inside the Spatial Maze, unable to break its seal.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu trapped three Realm Beast Kings in an enhanced Spatial Maze, then discovered and captured a strange female being they called a ghost. Meanwhile, the beasts surrounding Ink Abyss Island suddenly fled, leaving the recovering Transcendents on guard.

• Shi Jiu observed that Mystic Bone and Larval Soul had fused their powers, while Azure Feather struggled inside the Spatial Maze, and she and Jiang Fu decided to keep all three Kings imprisoned until they grew strong enough to capture them alive.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu sensed attacks from an unseen presence in Larval Soul's underground tunnel, and Jiang Fu's Yellow-Haired Sequence revealed that it was neither a Realm Beast nor a mutated beast.
• Shi Jiu created a Spatial Maze around the unseen attacker, and Jiang Fu repeatedly enhanced it with Multiply by Ten until a cracked, porcelain-like female figure appeared.
• Jiang Fu pulled Shi Jiu behind him and called the figure a ghost, while Shi Jiu realized her First Sequence, Hell, might be relevant.
• On Ink Abyss Island, the remaining beasts suddenly fled from the coast as the eighty-six recovering Transcendents watched the sea warily.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu trapped the Red-Clothed Female Ghost in a Spatial Maze while their Evasion Ring repeatedly dodged her attacks. After the battle on Ink Abyss Island ended, Xia Fan arrived to pick up the survivors and demanded an exorbitant fare.

• Jiang Fu replenished Shi Jiu's Evasion Ring with enlarged 120th-Order Fire Flame Crystals, and the two joked about buying more with their newfound money and Points.
• The Female Ghost disguised herself as a little girl to beg for mercy, but Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu saw through the trick and enraged her with insults.
• The Female Ghost transformed into a huge Ghost Shadow and attacked with claws and Ghostly Wails, but the Evasion Ring dodged every attack while the Spatial Maze kept her trapped.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu concluded that the Female Ghost was the enemy's trump card and left her sealed in the maze after their island-wide warnings detected no other threats.
• The dark clouds and waves subsided, and Ji Mingchang told the battered survivors that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had defeated the Realm Beasts.
• Shi Qingluan spotted Xia Fan's cruise liner approaching, and Xia announced that he would charge the eighty-seven survivors thirty billion for the ride.

Xia Fan evacuated the battered Transcendents from Ink Abyss Island while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu revealed that they had arranged to be captured by the Bearded Pirates and demand ransom. As the cruise ship departed, Jiang Fu made the island vanish, and the two plotted to pressure Tianhuang Martial Arts University's principal into paying.

• Dong Lin Chuxue challenged Xia Fan about his absence during the battle, and he displayed a level six mutated beast's head before urging everyone to board the cruise ship.
• Blackbeard, Whitebeard, Redbeard, and Yellowbeard announced that they had taken Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu and demanded four high-grade Heavenly Rank weapons as ransom.
• Xia Fan convinced the eighty-six Transcendents and Dong Lin Chuxue to leave the island, and he collected thirty billion in fares.
• After the cruise ship departed, Jiang Fu multiplied the distance between Ink Abyss Island and a level six fire flame crystal by ten, causing the island to disappear.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu celebrated their self-kidnapping and discussed asking Uncle Lin to pressure the principal into paying their ransom.

Shi Yuehan faced pressure from Shi Wu to choose his family over Tianhuang Martial Arts University, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu returned to Ruihang Center after staging their own capture. Lin Que warned Jiang Fu that Lingyue Pavilion had used him as a test subject, giving him another reason to seek them out.

• Shi Yuehan realized Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had staged their capture and complained about having to pay their ransom, while Shi Wu urged him to support the family’s revenge instead of clinging to his position as principal.
• Shi Wu told Shi Yuehan that his sons and Shi Jiu were giving him a choice between the university and his family, and warned him not to control or protect Shi Jiu.
• Shi Yuehan sat alone and wondered whether he had been wrong to keep sacrificing his family for the university.
• Lin Que welcomed Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu back unharmed and learned from Jiang Fu that they had staged their capture to evade people with bad intentions and fleece Old Deng.
• Lin Que told Jiang Fu that Lingyue Pavilion had used him as a test subject for a Forbidden Drug, and Jiang Fu silently resolved that he wanted to find them too.

Lin Que gave Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu intelligence on Lingyue Pavilion and a rare fire flame crystal before they left to pursue a tier 5 spirit fruit tree in Jiang City. They stopped at Shi Yuehan’s villa to tease him, where Jiang Fu asked whether his Ghostfire was safe parked there.

• Lin Que gave Shi Jiu information on Lingyue Pavilion and its members, then lent her a twelfth-order fire flame crystal while promising to seek more.
• Lin Que warned Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu that Realm Beasts might infiltrate Bin City and urged them to be cautious of Lingyue Pavilion.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu read that the tier 5 spirit fruit tree was in Jiang City and decided to visit Shi Yuehan before leaving.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu disguised themselves with wigs and rode a silver Ghostfire Motorcycle into Blue Shore Manor, slipping past security with Sequence Dodger.
• Shi Yuehan found Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu sharing food with Shi Wu, and Jiang Fu asked whether his Ghostfire was safe parked at Shi Yuehan’s villa.

Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu left Shi Yuehan’s villa and went to District Nine Martial Artist Hospital to confront Lu Zhengxiong, the supplier of forbidden drugs. They abducted him after discovering that Guo Fangdong, Ge Yanxia, and Guo Xiaofeng had died, while Ji Lin witnessed the disappearance on surveillance.

• Shi Jiu pretended she had blocked Shi Yuehan, and Jiang Fu left with her after joking that the Bearded Pirates would ransom them for six high-grade Heavenly Rank weapons or six twelfth-order fire flame crystals.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu set out for District Nine Martial Artist Hospital after Lin Que’s information identified Lu Zhengxiong as the forbidden-drug supplier.
• Jiang Fu discovered that Guo Fangdong, Ge Yanxia, and Guo Xiaofeng were dead in the hospital morgue and suspected Lu Zhengxiong had killed them to silence them.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu used an Invisibility Talisman and a Blunt Strike to capture Lu Zhengxiong and carry him away in a black sack.
• Ji Lin watched Lu Zhengxiong vanish on his surveillance feed, then heard Xia Fan say he was taking Lu Zhengxiong and told Ji Lin to keep quiet.

Xia Fan learned that the two Little Ancestors had blamed him for abducting Lu Zhengxiong and, through Ji Lin, covered up the incident. He stayed at sea as leader of the Kill Hu Alliance to help rescue Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, while other members divided over whether to remain or return to Jiang City.

• Ji Lin told Xia Fan that someone claiming to be him had knocked out Lu Zhengxiong and carried him away in a black sack, and Xia Fan accepted the blame after realizing the two Little Ancestors were responsible.
• Ji Lin erased the surveillance footage from Lu Zhengxiong's office and destroyed the camera's memory card, then asked whether Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had really been captured by the Bearded Pirates.
• Xia Fan confirmed the capture story and announced that he would remain at sea to fight the Bearded Pirates until Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu returned safely.
• Dong Lin Chuxue, Dong Lin Wu, and Jiang Wuzhou agreed to stay, while Shi Qingluan and Jian Nanqiu said they had to return to address the Tier 5 Spirit Fruit Tree in Jiang City.
• Fang Yizhong insisted that Tianhuang Martial Arts University would keep fighting, and Jiang Wuzhou declared that the Kill Hu Alliance would not disband and that its ransom demand had changed to six Twelfth-Order Fire Flame Crystals.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu interrogated Lu Zhengxiong about Lingyue Pavilion’s Forbidden Drug experiments, but a mind seal killed him before he could reveal what he knew about Shi Jiu’s grandparents. They headed for the District Nine Martial Artist Guild prison to question another member, while Jiang Fu admitted he had avoided extending his Evasion ability because he wanted to hold Shi Jiu.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu captured Lu Zhengxiong and questioned him about Lingyue Pavilion and the Forbidden Drug.
• Lu Zhengxiong revealed that Jiang Fu was Experimental Subject Number Sixteen, that Wang Funian had supplied the drug, and that Jiang Fu was selected because he belonged to the Imperial Capital Jiang Family.
• When Shi Jiu’s Lie Detector caught Lu Zhengxiong lying, Jiang Fu threatened to put him in a jar, and Lu Zhengxiong named Liu Jingchuan as another Lingyue Pavilion member.
• Lu Zhengxiong denied knowing about the Crowned Realm Beasts, but his head exploded when he was about to answer Shi Jiu’s questions about Ning Chengfeng and Yun Luoyu.
• Jiang Fu told Shi Jiu they would question another Lingyue Pavilion member in the District Nine Martial Artist Guild prison, then confessed he had not extended his Evasion ability because he wanted to hold her.

Lu Jianguo asked Shen Yan for help with his son Lu Pin, whose Lie Detector Sequence exposed others’ secrets and caused chaos in the Lu Family. Shen Yan promised to bring Lu Pin into the Martial Artist Guild and secure him a place at Tianhuang Martial Arts University, then went downstairs to meet Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu.

• Li Yue returned to managing the District Nine Acquisition Center after Shen Yan emerged from seclusion as a Transcendent.
• Lu Jianguo told Shen Yan that Lu Pin’s Lie Detector Sequence had exposed his younger brother’s affairs and the twins’ parentage, wrecking the family and landing Elder Lu in the hospital.
• Shen Yan offered to recruit Lu Pin into the Martial Artist Guild and get him into Tianhuang Martial Arts University, promising to find a way to keep him from revealing secrets.
• Lu Jianguo agreed to have his team tailor Shen Yan a suit, and Shen Yan hoped it would stop people from mistaking him for an insurance salesman.
• Shen Yan went to the Guild basement and found Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu sporting bright blond and red hair, blaming Xia Fan for their appearance.

Lu Pin arrived at the District Nine Martial Artist Guild with his Lie Detector Sequence, which exposed the hidden thoughts of Shen Yan, Jiang Fu, and Shi Jiu. Shen Yan fled after the Sequence revealed his fear of Shi Jiu, while Shi Jiu’s own violent plans were exposed.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu waited underground while Shen Yan arranged for Lu Jianguo’s team to measure him for custom suits.
• Lu Jianguo brought Lu Pin to the guild blindfolded and gagged to keep his Lie Detector Sequence from exposing his thoughts.
• After Jiang Fu removed Lu Pin’s restraints, Lu Pin exposed Shen Yan’s excitement about getting suits and proving he did not look like an insurance salesman.
• Lu Pin exposed Jiang Fu’s private insults about Shen Yan’s appearance and Shen Yan’s resentment toward Xia Fan.
• Lu Pin revealed Shen Yan’s fear of Shi Jiu and Shi Jiu’s plan to ambush Shen Yan, prompting Shen Yan to fall over.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu used a Blocking Pendant and Sequence Dodger to fool Shen Yan and Lu Pin’s Lie Detector Sequence. They brought Lu Pin to interrogate Wang Funian, leaving Shen Yan to check on his suit.

• Lu Pin’s Lie Detector Sequence forced him to confess that it made him blurt out his real thoughts and could not be avoided by staying silent.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu pretended to be Shen Yan’s parents, confusing Shen Yan until he realized they had found ways around Lu Pin’s Sequence.
• Jiang Fu promised Lu Pin a place at Tianhuang Martial Arts University, using Sequence Dodger to conceal that the promise was a lie.
• Jiang Fu explained that he and Shi Jiu had brought Lu Pin to interrogate Wang Funian, who was imprisoned standing upside down with his hands and feet attached to the wrong limbs.
• Shen Yan shocked and restrained Wang Funian, then left to check on his suit while Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, and Lu Pin stayed behind.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu interrogated Wang Funian, whose lies Lu Pin exposed with his Lie Detector sequence. Wang Funian revealed that Xing Jun had sought Ning Chengfeng and Yun Luoyu’s research findings, leaving Shi Jiu with the name of the enemy who killed her grandparents.

• Jiang Fu entered the White Prison Cell, and Wang Funian panicked at the sight of him while Lu Pin exposed Wang Funian’s attempt to conceal poison in his stomach.
• Jiang Fu threatened to attach Wang Funian’s head to his ass if his poison failed to kill him, then summoned the flying sword Qie Man.
• Wang Funian offered to answer questions, and Lu Pin exposed that he had gone to Blue Shore Manor Residential Area to take Jiang Fu as an experimental subject, using Wu Deming’s orders as cover.
• Jiang Fu asked whether Wang Funian knew Professors Ning Chengfeng and Yun Luoyu, and Lu Pin revealed that Xing Jun had orchestrated their expulsion and deaths to obtain their research findings.
• Jiang Fu told Shi Jiu that Xing Jun and Lingyue Pavilion were their enemies, and Shi Jiu silently absorbed the name of the person responsible for her grandparents’ deaths.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu questioned Wang Funian about Lingyue Pavilion’s forbidden experiments and its role in attacks on Bin City. The interrogation revealed that Lingyue Pavilion had caused the Realm Beast assault twelve years earlier and had also plotted to replace the city’s leaders, while the cause of the coming attack remained unknown.

• Lu Pin revealed that Lingyue Pavilion’s forbidden experiment used young people to rapidly create Martial Artists, with death as its greatest side effect, and that Jiang Fu was the only known survivor.
• Jiang Fu questioned Wang Funian about Xing Jun, and Wang Funian admitted that Xing Jun was an important figure but gave no further details.
• Lu Pin’s Lie Detector forced him to expose Lingyue Pavilion’s responsibility for the Realm Beast attack on Bin City twelve years earlier, which had devastated the Lu Family.
• Jiang Fu realized that Mind Seals activated to suppress secrets exposed by Lu Pin’s Sequence, but his Sequence Dodger protected Wang Funian from their harm.
• Wang Funian said he knew nothing about the coming Realm Beast attack but revealed that Liu Jingchuan had arranged an ambush a year earlier to replace Bin City’s leaders, and that Shi Jiu had killed the attackers.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu learned that Liu Jingchuan had no Mind Seal and decided to use Wang Funian to lure him out. They planned to travel with Lu Pin to Jiang City, where they would target three Lingyue Pavilion sequence martial artists and investigate a Tier 5 Spirit Fruit Tree.

• Lu Pin revealed that Liu Jingchuan reported directly to Xing Jun and had no Mind Seal, so Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu kept Wang Funian alive as bait for him.
• Jiang Fu trapped Wang Funian inside a poisonous-mist barrier and warned him to cooperate when Liu Jingchuan arrived.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu read Lin Que's information about Lingyue Pavilion and agreed to fight the organization, while Lu Pin joined them on their trip to Jiang City.
• Jiang Fu learned that three Lingyue Pavilion sequence martial artists were heading to Jiang City and declared them his targets.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discussed how Lingyue Pavilion had helped drive Shi Jiu's maternal family from Tianhuang Martial Arts University, and Lu Pin recognized Old Deng's role in the conflict.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu recruited Shen Yan and Lu Pin to join them on their trip to Jiang City, while Lu Pin’s lie-detecting ability exposed their motives and secrets. The group formed a disguised pirate crew and prepared to leave, with Shen Yan silencing Lu Pin before he could reveal more.

• Lu Pin learned that Jiang Fu planned to confront Old Deng, the Principal of Tianhuang Martial Arts University, and discovered that he could not refuse to join them.
• Shen Yan appointed Li Yue Acting Supervisor of the District Nine Martial Artist Guild and admitted that he was leaving to escape the Principal’s anger.
• Shi Jiu invited Shen Yan to come along, and Lu Pin’s ability exposed that Shen Yan feared staying behind more than facing the dangers in Jiang City.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu assigned pirate disguises to the group, and Lu Pin chose to be Xia Purplebeard as they founded the Colorful Beard Crew.
• Shen Yan carried Lu Pin toward the First Floor Lobby, and Lu Pin called Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu partners in crime before Shen Yan muffled him.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu disguised themselves as Bearded Pirates and headed for Jiang City, planning to provoke their enemies and profit from them. They decided to put themselves up for auction to draw out anyone plotting against them.

• Shen Yan returned with Lu Pin, and Jiang Fu forced Lu Pin to wear a green wig and beard after claiming the purple disguise for himself.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discussed taking Lu Pin to see the Female Ghost, frightening him and Shen Yan.
• Shen Yan drove Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, and Lu Pin through the Safety Passage in a large RV, with Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu using their items to evade surveillance.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu planned to pose as the Bearded Pirate Crew in Jiang City, antagonize Old Deng, and fleece Lingyue Pavilion for a Twelfth-Order Fire Flame Crystal.
• Jiang Fu proposed putting himself and Shi Jiu up for auction to lure out their enemies, and Shi Jiu agreed before kissing him inside the Safety Passage.