Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu gave Yu Shu and Lu Ming enormous supplies of Abyss Potion, then brought them to inspect Lingyue Pavilion’s research institute. The professors eagerly explored its hidden underground levels, where Lu Ming discovered research on gods.

• Lu Ming recognized the jars as Abyss Potion and suffered a confidentiality-agreement backlash, while Yu Shu and Lu Ming warned Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu about the danger of revealing it.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu gave Yu Shu and Lu Ming four jars of Abyss Potion, including two intended for Pinkbeard and Bluebeard.
• Shi Jiu asked Yu Shu and Lu Ming to help examine Lingyue Pavilion’s research institute, and they eagerly agreed.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu brought the professors to the institute hidden in a building in Jiang City District Seven, where Yu Shu and Lu Ming searched its underground spaces for research materials.
• Lu Ming found experimental data on gods and exclaimed that Lingyue Pavilion was researching them.

Shi Jiu, Jiang Fu, Yu Shu, and Lu Ming discovered that Lingyue Pavilion had secretly brought a god’s arm and its mist-wreathed ring to Jiang City, likely causing the Mist Forbidden Zone to appear. Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu planned to use their Bearded Pirate Crew to help the Authorities target Lingyue Pavilion while Old Deng took the blame publicly.

• Lu Ming showed Yu Shu research notes and a sealed container holding a decomposed woman’s arm with a ring surrounded by mist.
• Yu Shu recognized the smoke as mist from the Mist Forbidden Zone, and Lu Ming connected the arm to Lingyue Pavilion.
• Yu Shu and Lu Ming inferred that Lingyue Pavilion had transferred the arm to Jiang City three months earlier and that the ring had acted as a spatial coordinate drawing the Mist Forbidden Zone there.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu learned of the discovery after Shi Jiu broke through the institute’s spatial defenses.
• Jiang Fu told Shi Jiu that the Authorities needed a legitimate cause to act against Lingyue Pavilion, so the Bearded Pirate Crew would provoke them while Old Deng took the blame.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu offered Lingyue Pavilion's Jiang City Research Institute to the authorities, insisting that Yun Yi and Lin Que decide its fate. Yun Yi left the battle in District Eleven to check on the institute and found the boys safe, just before Lu Ming showed him something important.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu agreed to hand the research institute over to the country under Yun Yi and Lin Que's authority, while Jiang Fu secretly kept nine multiplied copies in his Storage Badge.
• Lu Ming and Yu Shu contacted Yun Yi, who was still watching the fighting in District Eleven, and he told Ying Quan to hold the scene while he returned to Jiang City.
• Yun Yi slipped into District Seven and found the research institute intact, recognizing its immense value.
• Yun Yi reunited with Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, who greeted him as their granduncle, and Lu Ming called him over to inspect something.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu offered Lingyue Pavilion’s Jiang City research institute and its evidence about the god’s arm to the Xia Country Authorities, prompting Yun Yi to arrange a discreet response. He brought in Shi Si, Shi Jiu’s fourth brother and the Authorities’ code-named Evil Ghost, to handle the matter.

• Yu Shu and Lu Ming showed Yun Yi the god’s arm, the ring, and the institute’s research records, and Yun Yi recognized the ring as the spatial coordinates linked to the Otherworld.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu offered the institute’s research, equipment, and resources to the Xia Country Authorities, while Yun Yi noted that Blackbeard’s claim of responsibility complicated the situation.
• Yun Yi decided that he and Lin Que could not lead the response and sent a coded message to summon help.
• Yun Yi introduced Shi Si, code name Evil Ghost, to Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, and Shi Si teased Shi Jiu about putting on weight before meeting Jiang Fu.

Shi Si discovered that the Bearded Pirate Crew had captured a Lingyue Pavilion research facility and agreed to use his covert position to help the Authorities act against it. After learning the crew’s pirate identities, he asked for a color of his own, and Jiang Fu named him Death Barbie Pinkbeard.

• Yun Yi introduced Shi Si as the Authorities’ operative Evil Ghost, while Shi Jiu and the others teased him for being dark, twisted, and filthy.
• Shi Si explored the research facility and realized it belonged to Lingyue Pavilion, which had caused his family great harm.
• After examining the research data, Shi Si deduced that Lingyue Pavilion had brought the Mist Forbidden Zone into Xia Country through research involving God.
• Yun Yi explained that Shi Si could now openly use the Authorities’ power against Lingyue Pavilion and entrust the facility to him because Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s identities had to remain secret.
• Yu Shu and Lu Ming revealed their Bearded Pirate Crew identities as Deep Bluebeard and Light Pinkbeard, with Lu Ming naming Ouyang Zheng as his superior.
• Shi Si asked Shi Jiu for a pirate color, and Jiang Fu gave him the name Death Barbie Pinkbeard.

Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu made Shi Si wear a Death Barbie Pink wig and beard as Pirate Death Barbie Pinkbeard, then devised a scheme with the Authorities to strike Lingyue Pavilion from both sides. The plan left the group preparing to exploit Lingyue Pavilion’s research institute takeover and its coming pursuit of the Bearded Pirate Crew.

• Shi Jiu persuaded Shi Si to wear the pink wig and beard, and he reluctantly accepted while the others laughed.
• Shi Si revealed his secret identity as Evil Ghost, an undercover asset of the Xia Country Authorities, and asked Yun Yi what they should do next.
• Yun Yi said the Authorities would take over Lingyue Pavilion Research Institute in District Seven the next morning and issue a warrant for the Bearded Pirate Crew after a staged robbery.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu planned to have the Authorities hunt the pirates alongside Lingyue Pavilion, then secretly add supposedly fallen Authority fighters to the pirate crew.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu proposed demanding compensation from Lingyue Pavilion and exposing the Authority fighters among the pirates to further damage the sect.

The Xia Country Authorities approved a scheme to use Shi Si as Death Barbie Pinkbeard and the Bearded Pirate Crew to strike back at Lingyue Pavilion after verifying its Spatial Coordinates. As the research facility arrived in District Seven under a Concealment Array, the chapter left Lingyue Pavilion unaware of the extraordinary space-based defenses protecting it.

• The Authorities approved Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu's plan, adding an ambush at an army camp and making its soldiers part of Death Barbie Pinkbeard's pirate squad.
• Yun Yi told Shi Si that the Authorities would verify the Spatial Coordinates before proceeding, and Shi Si realized he would have to rob people in his pink disguise.
• Yu Shu and Lu Ming revealed that they and Yun Yi were senior members of the Bearded Pirate Crew, while Shi Jiu confirmed that Old Deng was its captain without knowing it.
• Jiang Fu carried the sleepy Shi Jiu away, and ten canisters of Abyss Potion appeared for Yun Yi and Shi Si to use against Lingyue Pavilion.
• The Spatial Maze vanished and the research facility appeared in District Seven, where Yun Yi concealed it with a Concealment Array as its defenses remained protected by the Spatial Sovereign's power and another Spatial Maze.

The Celestial Beings’ all-night assault on Dunxi Hotel ended when Lin Jingzhe warned them that the Bearded Pirate Crew had not used its trump cards, and the Sword God revealed he had been pretending to weaken. After the crew announced another auction, Shi Si arrived at the hotel looking for his younger sister.

• Lingyue Pavilion lost its Jiang City research institute, and the Bearded Pirate Crew publicly claimed responsibility, prompting Xin Musen to join the assault on Dunxi Hotel.
• Ling Ye, Sikong Yi, Sikong Mei, and the other Celestial Beings attacked Dunxi Hotel until dawn, when Lin Jingzhe ordered them to show restraint in daylight.
• Lin Jingzhe reminded the Celestial Beings that the Bearded Pirate Crew still had powerful trump cards, and the Sword God revealed his apparent injuries had been an act.
• Lin Jingzhe announced that Purplebeard would hold another Dunxi Hotel auction that night with the same ten-billion admission fee and suit requirement.
• Jiang Fu returned to Dunxi Hotel with the sleeping Shi Jiu, while Shi Si arrived late in the morning and asked where his younger sister was.

Shi Si arrived at the Bearded Pirate Crew as Death Barbie Pinkbeard and learned that Shi Jiu was sharing a bed with Jiang Fu. After his aura revealed that he was both a Celestial Being and the legendary blade Evil Ghost, he restrained himself and accepted that Shi Jiu seemed happy with Jiang Fu.

• Jiang Fu returned with Shi Jiu and told the Beards that the Authorities were cooperating with the crew and that Death Barbie Pinkbeard would join them.
• Goldbeard and Silverbeard recognized the newly arrived Death Barbie Pinkbeard as Shi Si, who introduced himself as Shi Yuehan's son and Shi Jiu's fourth brother.
• Shi Si learned that Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu were staying together and demanded an explanation from the Beards.
• Shi Si released a terrifying black aura that broke the chairs beneath Shen Yan, Qing Ling, and Lu Pin, and Goldbeard and Silverbeard recognized him as a Celestial Being and Evil Ghost.
• Shi Si let the aura fade and said he would accept Jiang Fu if Shi Jiu liked him, but Lu Pin called him a liar when he claimed he had only been thinking of Jiang Fu's rest.

Shi Si discovered that Jiang Fu could speak inside Domain Monster: Silence’s Silence Domain and grew convinced that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu were the real powers behind the Bearded Pirate Crew. After revealing Xia Fan’s identities, Shi Si set out alone to provoke Lingyue Pavilion ahead of the crew’s auction.

• Domain Monster: Silence silenced the conference room, but Jiang Fu warned everyone not to gossip about him and Xiao Jiu, leaving Shi Si stunned that he could speak.
• Goldbeard told Shi Si that Jiang Fu seemed stronger than he appeared, and Shi Si agreed that Jiang Fu had repeatedly beaten Old Deng and survived.
• Shi Si asked who Xia Blackbeard was, and Shen Yan revealed that Xia Fan was both Blackbeard and Whitebeard.
• Shi Si concluded that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu were behind the Bearded Pirate Crew and decided the uncertain Sword God could be assessed later.
• Shi Si ordered the crew to collect auction lots and provoke Lingyue Pavilion, then transformed into black mist and left alone as the others stayed behind to rest and eat.

After the Bearded Pirates announced another auction, Death Barbie Pinkbeard caused havoc by abducting Ling Family martial artists and raiding Lingyue Pavilion’s people. Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu woke to Yun Yi’s call about decoded research data and agreed to visit the institute after dinner, dressed as Redbeard and Yellowbeard.

• Goldbeard and Silverbeard confirmed that Shi Si had pretended to be a bad student to annoy his father, while Lu Pin praised his unconventional approach.
• The Bearded Pirates announced a second Jiang City auction, and Death Barbie Pinkbeard began abducting Ling Family martial artists and robbing Lingyue Pavilion’s people.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu woke when Yun Yi called to say Xia Country researchers had decoded much of the Lingyue Pavilion institute’s research findings.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu agreed to go to the research institute after dinner to help crack the remaining protected data, and Yun Yi told them to come as Redbeard and Yellowbeard.
• Jiang Fu offered to make little wontons, and Shi Jiu decided she could begin losing weight after the meal.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entrusted Shen Yan with the Bearded Pirate Crew’s intelligence while they slipped past the martial artists watching District Eleven and visited the hidden research institute in District Seven. There, they showed Yun Yi, Lu Ming, and Yu Shu that they had Qingwu and Shattered Glow under control before meeting the Authorities’ representative.

• Jiang Fu told Shen Yan to review Greenbeard’s intelligence and plan the crew’s next steps, then left with Shi Jiu for the Authorities.
• Shen Yan drank the Martial Artist Guild’s tap water and transformed into Celestial Purplebeard.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu evaded the watchers in District Eleven and reached Lingyue Pavilion’s concealed research institute in District Seven.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu revealed that Qingwu was restrained by a Soul-Binding Lock and brought Shattered Glow out on another lock.
• Yun Yi, Lu Ming, and Yu Shu realized that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had brought the domain demons to demonstrate their strength before negotiations with the Authorities’ representative.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu revealed more captured monsters to Yun Yi, Yu Shu, and Lu Ming before meeting the Authorities’ representative, Zhuge Zhu. Zhuge Zhu was overwhelmed by the Realm Beast Kings and Domain Demons, while Jiang Fu awkwardly mistook his name for “Zhuge.”

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu decided to reveal more monsters to intimidate the Authorities’ representative and used Space Sovereign to enter the Spatial Maze.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu chose Realm Beast King Larval Soul and Realm Beast King Black Bone to join Azure Feather, while the Order Divine Artifact sent the target’s coordinates and details to Purplebeard.
• Purplebeard contacted Death Barbie Pinkbeard, and Jiang Fu fastened Soul-Binding Locks around Larval Soul and Black Bone before Azure Feather eagerly offered to hold his own leash.
• Yun Yi, Yu Shu, and Lu Ming saw the three enormous Realm Beast Kings and led Jiang Fu and the monsters to meet the Authorities’ representative.
• Zhuge Zhu, director of Xia Country’s First Research Institute, panicked at the sight of the monsters and Domain Demons, then corrected Jiang Fu’s mistaken interpretation of his name.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu arrived at the First Research Institute as pirates, terrifying Director Zhuge by bringing powerful monsters with them. After they put most of the monsters away, Zhuge dropped his act and began explaining the Authorities’ terms for cooperating with the pirates.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu approached Zhuge Zhu with Realm Beast Kings and Domain Demons, and the shaking hall sent him scrambling beneath his desk.
• Shi Jiu introduced herself as Pirate Redbeard, and Zhuge panicked at seeing Domain Demon: Shattered Glow on a lead.
• Yun Yi confirmed that Zhuge had invited the pair, and Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu joked about naming their future Bearded Zoo Monster Paradise.
• Shi Jiu returned Shattered Glow, Qingwu, Larval Soul, and Black Bone to the spatial maze, while Azure Feather flew off holding its own Soul-Binding Lock.
• Zhuge scolded Yun Yi and the professors for not warning him, then sat down and began stating the Authorities’ terms for cooperation without making a sound.

Jiang Fu used Domain Monster: Silence to disrupt Zhuge Zhu and Yun Yi as they tried to explain the Authorities’ terms for cooperating with the Bearded Pirates. After the meeting turned into a discussion of incoming pirate reinforcements, Jiang Fu urged them to raid the Sikong Clan, the Ling Family, and Lingyue Pavilion’s assets at sea.

• Jiang Fu secretly used Domain Monster: Silence to make Zhuge Zhu lose his voice whenever he discussed the Authorities’ terms.
• Zhuge Zhu outlined the need for a verbal agreement, the Bearded Pirates’ donation of Lingyue Pavilion Research Institute, and the Authorities’ offer of research findings and Tier 12 Energy Sources.
• Jiang Fu silenced Zhuge Zhu again as he began listing the pirates’ obligations, so Zhuge Zhu gave up and went to inspect the laboratory.
• Yun Yi explained how Zhuge Zhu rose from taxi driver to director of the First Research Institute after awakening Sequence: Mad Scientist.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu resisted the Authorities’ demands, while Yu Shu and Lu Ming announced that Celestial Beings and other Bearded Pirates would come to Jiang City.
• Jiang Fu urged the incoming pirates to target the Sikong Clan, the Ling Family, and Lingyue Pavilion’s assets at sea instead.

Zhuge Zhu abandoned the Authorities’ negotiations and led researchers to examine the Lingyue Pavilion Research Institute. Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu learned that the Bearded Pirate Crew had no intention of claiming Jiang City and were brought to a storeroom full of research findings, including materials sealed by special Sequences.

• Zhuge Zhu gave up negotiating with the Bearded Pirate Crew and took researchers to the institute’s key laboratories.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu told Lu Ming and Yu Shu that the crew did not need Jiang City, and Redbeard and Yellowbeard agreed they would simply take any opportunities they wanted.
• Bluebeard read the message from Redbeard and Yellowbeard while sneaking into Shi Wu’s room at Villa No. 777.
• Yun Yi showed Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu a storeroom containing research findings from the First Research Institute, and Shi Jiu eagerly examined the documents.
• Yun Yi explained that many institute materials were sealed by special Sequences that the professors could not break, so Jiang Fu offered to crack them.

Shi Jiu explored the deciphered research institute with Jiang Fu while the First Research Institute’s researchers prepared more documents for her. When Yun Yi hinted at the Lingyue Pavilion researchers, Yu Shu and Lu Ming cut him off and insisted that negotiations with the Authorities would be handled on the Bearded Pirate Crew’s terms.

• Shi Jiu stored the translated documents in her Storage Badge and followed Jiang Fu to inspect the institute’s laboratories and databases.
• Lu Ming explained that Shi Jiu had deciphered the seals on 3,600 laboratories, including the central laboratory, while fifty laboratories and hundreds of repositories remained sealed.
• Jiang Fu proposed that they decipher the Sequence Seals on the remaining fifty laboratories first.
• Yun Yi began asking about the Lingyue Pavilion researchers, but Yu Shu and Lu Ming accused him of trying to claim them for the Authorities.
• Yu Shu and Lu Ming declared themselves members of the Bearded Pirate Crew Diyuan Branch and Renxuan Branch and told Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to leave negotiations with the Authorities to them.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu effortlessly broke the Laboratory’s seals, prompting Yu Shu and Lu Ming to negotiate with the Authorities on their behalf. After Jiang Fu demanded Tianhuang Martial Arts University, they rushed outside when Realm Beast King Azure Feather was found fighting Realm Beast King Thunder Emperor over Jiang City.

• Jiang Fu used Absolute Dodge to remove and crush the Laboratory’s Guardian seal, while Shi Jiu erased its Spatial Sequence seal.
• Yu Shu and Lu Ming stopped Yun Yi from leading Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to another Laboratory, claiming the pair needed rest and promising to negotiate compensation.
• Jiang Fu demanded Tianhuang Martial Arts University, and Yu Shu and Lu Ming said its takeover was already planned.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu hurried outside after hearing that Azure Feather was fighting Thunder Emperor over Jiang City.
• Yu Shu laughed at Azure Feather’s initiative as the two Realm Beast Kings battled beneath the Air Defense Belt.

Azure Feather used the Soul-Binding Lock to suppress Thunder Emperor’s lightning and overpower the Realm Beast King, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s allies revealed themselves as powerful members of the Bearded Pirate Crew. The chapter left the crew facing a clash with Jiang City’s Celestial Realm experts as they defended Azure Feather and refused to return Xin Musen’s research institute.

• Azure Feather bound Thunder Emperor with the Soul-Binding Lock, preventing it from using lightning and letting Azure Feather wound it.
• Yu Shu and Lu Ming transformed into Pirate Deep Bluebeard and Pirate Xia Light Pinkbeard, leaving Yun Yi puzzled over their devotion to Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu.
• Sikong Mei, Ling Ye, Xin Musen, and other Celestial Realm Transcendents decided to kill Azure Feather and seize or destroy the human Sequence Item it carried.
• Pirate Xia Light Pinkbeard, Pirate Xia Deep Bluebeard, and Pirate Xia Death Barbie Pinkbeard appeared and blocked the experts from interfering with Azure Feather.
• Xin Musen demanded his research institute back, but Pirate Xia Deep Bluebeard refused and Pirate Xia Light Pinkbeard taunted him.

Yu Shu and Lu Ming revealed themselves as Deep Bluebeard and Light Pinkbeard, joining Death Barbie Pinkbeard to protect Azure Feather after it defeated Thunder Emperor. As tensions with Lingyue Pavilion and the Sikong Clan rose, Lin Jingzhe intervened and ordered everyone to take their fight to the Wilderness Area.

• Azure Feather pinned Thunder Emperor down and used the Soul-Binding Lock to seal away its remaining electricity.
• Yu Shu, Lu Ming, and Shi Si appeared as Deep Bluebeard, Light Pinkbeard, and Death Barbie Pinkbeard, guarding the Realm Beast Kings in the sky.
• Ling Ye demanded that the Bearded Pirate Crew surrender Azure Feather or kill it, but Light Pinkbeard dared them to catch it themselves.
• Azure Feather rose to just below the Air Defense Belt and stood over Thunder Emperor while Light Pinkbeard called it the crew's pet.
• Sikong Mei accused the Bearded Pirate Crew of being enemies of humanity, and Bluebeard replied that they had always been enemies of the Sikong Clan.
• Light Pinkbeard and Deep Bluebeard insulted Sikong Mei until Lin Jingzhe appeared and ordered them to take any fight to the Wilderness Area.