Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fu exposed why he had targeted Lingyue Pavilion and fought Xin Linlin with Shi Jiu. Shi Jiu’s empowered hammer sent Xin Linlin’s head flying into the Fog Zone, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Xin Linlin accused Jiang Fu of targeting Lingyue Pavilion, and Jiang Fu showed the crowd a recording of Mo Ran Qiuhua trying to conscript him and Shi Jiu as cannon fodder.
• Jiang Fu declared that he would auction off Xin Linlin, and his Blunt Strike struck the old man several times, making his head swell.
• Xin Linlin located Shi Jiu and attacked, but she evaded his palm with her Evasion Ring.
• Shi Jiu asked Jiang Fu to multiply her True Qi by ten, then swung her hammer into Xin Linlin’s head.
• Jiang Fu multiplied Xin Linlin’s head speed, flight distance, and distance from his body by ten, sending it into the Fog Zone.

Jiang Fu fought Xin Linlin, a Lingyue Pavilion martial artist whose Forgemaster Sequence had turned his body into a weapon, and defeated him with Shi Jiu’s hammer and abilities. He then confronted Ling Chengxin, the Ling Family’s representative, and showed him a video, asking whether it was worth ten Twelfth-Order Fire Flame Crystals.

• Xin Linlin’s head was knocked off, but Yun Yi explained that his Forgemaster Sequence had made his body as sturdy as a Low-grade Heavenly Rank weapon.
• Yellowbeard and Redbeard rushed to capture Xin Linlin, and Lingyue Pavilion martial artists tried to recover him, but Invisible Blunt Strikes knocked them out.
• Xin Linlin revealed that he had lured Yellowbeard in, grew into a towering Weapon Body, and attacked Jiang Fu while Shi Jiu went to find the other Lingyue Pavilion martial artists.
• Jiang Fu fought Xin Linlin with his Great Hammer and Starfall, multiplying the strain on Xin Linlin until he collapsed and could no longer move.
• Jiang Fu asked whether anyone from the Ling Family of the Imperial Capital was present, and Ling Chengxin identified himself and said he would buy their people back at the Auction.
• Jiang Fu showed Ling Chengxin a video and asked whether it was worth ten Twelfth-Order Fire Flame Crystals.

After the defense sector’s losses, Yellowbeard forced Ling Chengxin to pay for a video exposing Ling Chu’s scheme. Xin Linlin’s body then began producing Gray Mist, creating a new Fog Zone.

• Yun Yi learned that 382 martial artists’ bodies had been found and the rest were missing, then considered whether anyone beyond the Defense Wall might still be alive.
• Ling Chengxin saw a video showing Ling Chu and two Ling Family retainers capturing talented martial artists and framing the Bearded Pirates.
• Yellowbeard and Jiang Fu demanded fourteen twelfth-order fire flame crystals for the video, and Ling Chengxin paid two as a deposit while asking them to protect the Ling Family martial artists.
• Gray mist rose from Xin Linlin’s body and rapidly formed a Fog Zone, which Jiang Fu identified as a new source of Gray Mist.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entered the Misty Zone with Xin Linlin, and Yun Yi followed after learning they had gone inside. Yun Yi recognized Shi Jiu as his grandniece and gave the pair powerful items to help them face the danger within the mist.

• Jiang Fu battered Xin Linlin until he stopped moving, then bound him with the Soul-Binding Lock and carried him into the Misty Zone with Redbeard.
• Ling Chengxin questioned why the pirates had entered the dangerous zone, while Yun Yi ordered Adjutant Ying to contact the Sword God and followed them inside.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu tested the mist and found that it stripped away Transcendent cultivation unless someone used the Dodger Sequence or an Evasion Ring.
• Shi Jiu used her Space Controller Divine Sequence to help Yun Yi reach them through the distorted mist, and Yun Yi recognized her as his grandniece.
• Yun Yi warned that the Tier 5 Spirit Fruit Tree might be bait and gave Jiang Fu a True Water Realm and a Twelfth-Order Waterwave Crystal to help them.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu upgraded Yun Yi’s True Water Realm and Waterwave Crystals before following Xin Linlin’s Soul-Binding Lock deeper into the Fog Zone. They arrived at a human-head fruit tree, where a woman’s head lunged at Jiang Fu and missed.

• Yun Yi left the Fog Zone with Shi Jiu’s help after giving Jiang Fu the True Water Realm and a Waterwave Crystal.
• Jiang Fu multiplied the treasures, upgrading two True Water Realms into Extreme Dao True Water Worlds and two Waterwave Crystals into 120th-Order crystals.
• The Soul-Binding Lock began shaking as Xin Linlin tried to break free, so Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu followed its direction toward the Tier 5 Spirit Fruit Tree.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu arrived among dried corpses, where a woman’s head emerged from the mist and lunged at Jiang Fu but missed.
• Jiang Fu spotted a towering black tree about twenty kilometers away, with human heads hanging from its branches like fruit.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discovered that they perceived two different trees in the Misty Zone, then escaped as a severed head pursued them. Shi Jiu returned by following the Soul-Binding Lock and identified the black tree as the Life-and-Death Asura Tree.

• Jiang Fu saw a black tree covered in human heads attacking Xin Linlin’s headless body, while Shi Jiu saw a white Spirit Fruit Tree.
• Shi Jiu used the Soul-Binding Lock to see the ghost tree, and Jiang Fu multiplied the hardness of Xin Linlin’s body to protect it.
• Shi Jiu teleported with Jiang Fu out of the Misty Zone, where Adjutant Ying asked what was happening inside.
• A severed head chased Jiang Fu out of the mist, and Shi Jiu destroyed it with her Pink-Bow Sledgehammer.
• A Martial Artist identified the head as Nan Zhiyi’s, revealing that the Nan Family heiress had died.
• Shi Jiu followed the Soul-Binding Lock back to the tree and recognized it as the Life-and-Death Asura Tree.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discovered that the supposed Tier 5 Spirit Fruit Tree was actually the mythological Life-and-Death Asura Tree, whose heartwood they needed for the Fishing Fanatic Sequence Item. They multiplied their cultivation realms and strength by ten and attacked the tree, which regenerated and recognized them as God Kings.

• Shi Jiu identified the tree as the Life-and-Death Asura Tree and explained that its heartwood was one of the three materials still missing for Jiang Fu's Sequence Item.
• Jiang Fu multiplied his and Shi Jiu's cultivation realms, strength control, and adaptability by ten before they prepared to fight the tree.
• Jiang Fu multiplied Flying Sword Qie Man into ten Tier 30 swords and gave five to Shi Jiu.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu attacked the Life-and-Death Asura Tree, destroyed it, and watched its fragments gather as it regenerated.
• A vast consciousness called out in shock that a God King existed in the ruined world.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discovered that the Life-and-Death Asura Tree could only be harmed by attacks from both the Life Realm and the Death Realm, then returned to seize its Tree Heart. The tree was destroyed, but a God King's corpse attacked Shi Jiu from across the void.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu realized they had to strike the Life-and-Death Asura Tree from both realms and bound it with the Soul-Binding Lock before leaving to reach the Life Realm and Death Realm.
• A Tentacled Cube Monster concealed the tree inside layers of space, but Shi Jiu used her Space Controller Divine Sequence to shatter the space and expose it.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu attacked the exposed tree, and Shi Jiu struck the Tentacled Cube Monster as a black hand descended from the void.
• Shi Jiu's ring made the God King's attack miss, and the Life-and-Death Asura Tree exploded, leaving its Tree Heart in her hand.
• Shi Jiu told Jiang Fu that the attacker had been a God King's corpse and that she had sensed no life in him.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu encountered an undead God King attacking a black-energy cage in the Misty Zone and used Multiply by Ten to survive its assaults. They studied the corpse and concluded that the smoke affecting it and other monsters was connected to the cage, while the God King eventually lost sight of them and disappeared into space.

• Jiang Fu used Multiply by Ten to raise his and Shi Jiu's cultivation realms and used Divine Sequence: Taunt to draw the God King's corpse's attacks.
• Shi Jiu used the Eye of Insight to reveal the four-headed, eight-armed corpse attacking a black-energy cage across the void.
• Jiang Fu replenished their protective items and multiplied their learning ability and comprehension so they could study the God King's movements.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu sat together, watched the corpse attack the cage, and speculated that the smoke and the corpse's undead state were connected to it.
• After Jiang Fu's Yellow-Haired Sequence wore off, the God King's corpse searched for them but failed to detect them and vanished into space.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discovered that the mist stripped away cultivation and believed the Fog Zone was a buffer between worlds, but they could not find its source. After returning with the Life-and-Death Asura Tree's heart, they learned that the Authorities had faced otherworldly invasions before, then headed off to stock up for the auction.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu searched the Fog Zone, found that its mist suppressed even World King and God King cultivation, and failed to locate its source or a spatial rift.
• Shi Jiu gave Jiang Fu the Life-and-Death Asura Tree's heart, and Jiang Fu multiplied it tenfold before they left the Fog Zone.
• Jiang Fu handed Yun Yi the tree heart and explained that the tree had not caused the mist to persist; Yun Yi said the Authorities would investigate and arrange their remaining reward.
• Jiang Fu told Yun Yi that the Fog Zone was likely a junction between worlds where new creatures could emerge, and Yun Yi revealed that otherworldly invasions had happened before.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu left to stock up for the auction, joking about knocking out Ling Chu and using a Blunt Strike.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discovered that an Order Divine Artifact guarded the broken world and used threats to make it reveal useful locations. As they prepared to stock up, Ling Chuchu recognized them as the Bearded Pirates and readied herself to attack.

• The Order Divine Artifact warned Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu that powers above High God could damage the world’s origin, then explained that it guarded the realm and would not permit God Kings or World Kings.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu threatened the artifact until it revealed the locations of moonheart bamboo and a Great Wild Heaven-Devouring Python.
• Shi Jiu asked for Shi Cangming’s treasury, and the Order Divine Artifact sent its spatial coordinates into their consciousness seas.
• Ling Chuchu identified Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu as the Bearded Pirates, planned to use them against Shi Yuehan, and activated Sequence: Thunder as she prepared to fight.
• Shi Jiu finished saving the locations on her phone, looked up, and noticed that the bulky merchandise was still there.

Jiang Fu drew Ling Chuchu into battle while Shi Jiu watched from hiding, hoping to learn more about the Thunder Sequence. Ling Chuchu evaded their attacks by turning into lightning, leaving Jiang Fu unable to land a hit.

• Ling Chuchu used the Thunder Sequence to surround herself with lightning, then repeatedly transformed into lightning to escape Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu's attacks.
• Jiang Fu revealed himself and told Shi Jiu to watch Ling Chuchu's abilities while he acted as bait.
• Jiang Fu charged Ling Chuchu with Starfall and a sledgehammer, then used his Evasion Ring to pass through her lightning wave unharmed.
• Ling Chuchu vanished into lightning and sent a massive lightning Hand Seal at Jiang Fu, but he dodged it and struck the ground beside Shi Jiu.
• Jiang Fu admitted that even multiplying his hit rate by ten had not helped him hit Ling Chuchu, while the watching Martial Artists marveled at his apparent movement technique.

Jiang Fu fought Ling Chuchu while Shi Jiu recorded her Thunder Sequence and the surrounding martial artists studied his evasive footwork. As Ling Chuchu unleashed her doubles and lightning flood dragons, Jiang Fu glimpsed a movement from the God King Corpse and struck with a newly clarified hammer trajectory.

• Jiang Fu dodged Ling Chuchu's lightning attacks and charged her with his hammer while Shi Jiu secretly recorded the fight and took notes.
• Ling Chuchu summoned eighteen lightning serpents, and Jiang Fu asked Shi Jiu not to interfere so he could continue fighting her himself.
• Jiang Fu multiplied the number of himself Ling Chuchu could see, while she expanded her lightning field and created eighteen doubles and lightning flood dragons.
• Jiang Fu used the Eye of Insight to track Ling Chuchu's true self and recalled a hazy movement of the God King Corpse.
• Jiang Fu multiplied the clarity of that remembered trajectory and swung his hammer along it, leaving only the hammer in the moment of impact.

Jiang Fu knocked Ling Chuchu unconscious with an accidental imitation of the God King's attack, and he and Shi Jiu captured her before disappearing. Back at the Dunxi Hotel, they found Qing Ling and Lu Pin interrogating a group of captives.

• Jiang Fu struck Ling Chuchu with a hammer, and Shi Jiu recognized the blow as a crude God King Strike and recorded it for practice.
• Shi Jiu put the unconscious Ling Chuchu in a World Beast Cage, while Jiang Fu signaled to Yun Yi before the pair vanished.
• Shi Qinglong decided to leave the Bearded Pirates alone as Yun Yi and seven other peak Sky-Riding Realm Transcendents entered the Misty Zone to investigate.
• Ling Chu secretly approached Ling Chengxin and told him he was still in Jiang City, and Ling Chengxin urged him to wait until they were alone.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu returned to the Dunxi Hotel and found Qing Ling and Lu Pin whipping more than a dozen bound Martial Artists during an interrogation.

Qing Ling and Lu Pin interrogated dozens of captured Ling Family martial artists, while Lu Pin’s Lie Detector exposed Qing Ling’s improvised punishments and provoked a quarrel between them. When Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu arrived, Qing Ling asked Jiang Fu to demonstrate the bizarre punishment of attaching someone’s head to their backside.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discovered that Qing Ling and Lu Pin had captured forty-three Ling Family martial artists, despite their promise to Ling Chengxin not to capture more.
• Qing Ling threatened a silent captive with needles, while Lu Pin exposed that the Crime of Silence was made up and revealed Qing Ling was controlling the needles with Psychokinesis.
• Lu Pin’s Sequence exposed his own lies, and Qing Ling punished him with a slap before the two argued over whether Yellowbeard could attach a person’s head to their backside.
• Lu Pin said Yellowbeard had claimed he could perform the bizarre punishment, leaving the captured martial artists terrified and uncertain whether it was real.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entered the room, and Qing Ling asked Jiang Fu to demonstrate the punishment on a captive while claiming his Sequence could learn new punishments by watching.

Jiang Fu and his crew discovered that Ling Chuchu was a female personality created when Multiply by Ten split Ling Chu’s mind into ten personalities. Ling Chuchu recognized the Bearded Pirates’ secret and proposed teaming up with them to eliminate Ling Chu and the other personalities.

• Shi Jiu removed Ling Chuchu from the World Beast Cage and restrained her with a Soul-Binding Lock, which suppressed her Thunder Sequence.
• Jiang Fu questioned Ling Chuchu, who introduced herself as a woman named Ling Chuchu, while Lu Pin’s Lie Detector Sequence exposed her thoughts about eating Qing Ling and stealing his abilities.
• Jiang Fu concluded that Multiply by Ten had created ten separate minds in Ling Chu’s first Puppet Body, including Ling Chuchu’s female personality.
• Ling Chuchu admitted that she was Ling Chu and revealed that she knew the Bearded Pirates’ secret, then offered to help them eliminate her original self and the other eight personalities.

Ling Chuchu exposed her plan to betray Jiang Fu and the Bearded Pirates, but Qing Ling’s Sequence Judge punished her and Jiang Fu threatened to torture her for information. Ling Chuchu agreed to talk, though Qing Ling and Lu Pin insisted she did not want to.

• Ling Chuchu proposed joining forces with Jiang Fu, but Lu Pin’s Sequence Lie Detector revealed she planned to devour him and the Bearded Pirates afterward.
• The Ling Family Transcendents realized Yellowbeard was Jiang Fu and feared they would be killed for learning the secret.
• Shi Jiu and Qing Ling called for Ling Chuchu to be punished, and Qing Ling’s Sequence Judge slapped her hard enough to knock out her teeth.
• Ling Chuchu focused her greed on Qing Ling’s Judge Sequence, while Jiang Fu questioned how she could steal it.
• Jiang Fu summoned Qie Man and threatened to attach Ling Chuchu’s head to her backside; she offered to tell him everything, but Qing Ling and Lu Pin said she did not want to talk.

Ling Chuchu triggered an assault on the Dunxi Hotel, where Sikong Lang arrived as a towering Water Element Giant with Sikong Clan and Ling Family martial artists. Shen Yan sent the newly freed Goldbeard and Silverbeard to fight, while Shi Jiu saw the attackers as goods for the next day's auction and ordered them to pay for any hotel damage.

• Ling Chuchu stopped herself from revealing anything and unleashed a Sequence that shook the Dunxi Hotel and the ground around it.
• Shen Yan, Golden Wing, and Silver Wing spotted Sikong Lang approaching as a Water Element Giant, followed by Sikong Clan and Ling Family martial artists.
• Golden Wing and Silver Wing regained their power, but Shen Yan reminded them that their Order Contract still bound them to the Colorful Beard Crew.
• Shen Yan gave the two men wigs, fake beards, and Demon Blade Azureflame and Demon Blade Redblood, then sent them to confront the Water Element Giant.
• Qing Ling's Sequence Punishment failed to break through Sikong Lang's Water Element Giant.
• Shi Jiu declared the attackers goods for the auction and ordered them to pay if they damaged the hotel.

At the Dunxi Hotel, Jiang Fu used his power and a Soul-Binding Lock to trap Ling Chuchu’s consciousness in her Puppet Body while the Ling Family and Sikong Clan prepared to attack outside. Ling Chuchu exposed what she believed about Shi Yuehan, then accused him of killing Sikong Zhao before Qie Man struck off her head.

• Sikong Lang summoned a Water Element Giant to draw the Bearded Pirates’ attention while the other Martial Artists surrounded the Dunxi Hotel.
• Jiang Fu told Shi Jiu to leave the attackers to Goldbeard and Silverbeard, then used Multiply by Ten and the Soul-Binding Lock to prevent Ling Chuchu from leaving her Puppet Body.
• Ling Chuchu recognized Shi Yuehan’s role in trapping her consciousness and threatened to expose him as the mastermind behind the Bearded Pirate Crew.
• Shi Jiu denied the accusation, but Jiang Fu’s words and a voice posing as Lu Pin appeared to confirm that Shi Yuehan founded the Colorful Beard Crew and ordered their actions.
• Ling Chuchu demanded to be released and accused Shi Yuehan of killing Sikong Zhao, and Qie Man cut off her head with a flash of purple sword light.

Jiang Fu used his ability to attach Ling Chuchu’s head to her butt, multiplying her vitality and shared sensations so Ling Chu and his other personalities experienced the ordeal too. Qing Ling learned the punishment as Head-First Impalement and rushed outside to test it as Goldbeard and Silverbeard fought a Water Element Giant.

• Shi Yuehan sneezed repeatedly in Bincheng District Nine while worrying about the Realm Beast Kings and the mystery drawing them to Bin City.
• Jiang Fu decapitated Ling Chuchu, multiplied her vitality and healing, and attached her head to her butt while Shi Jiu, Lu Pin, Qing Ling, and the Ling Family martial artists watched.
• Ling Chu and his other personalities felt Ling Chuchu’s multiplied sensations and erupted into pain, confusion, and arguments.
• Qing Ling’s Judge Sequence learned the punishment Head-First Impalement, and the Ling Family martial artists knocked themselves unconscious to avoid becoming its test subjects.
• Goldbeard and Silverbeard fought the Water Element Giant outside the hotel, and Qing Ling hurried out to try his new punishment.