Chapter Summaries

After the Sword God’s intervention drove off the Celestial Beings who had joined the fight, Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu returned to the Spatial Maze, where Azure Feather tried to recruit Thunder Emperor. Back in Jiang City District Eleven, Ling Chu told the assembled High Celestial Realm experts that Shi Yuehan was behind the Bearded Pirate Crew.

• The Sword God accepted Lin Jingzhe’s proposal for a battle outside the city, prompting three summoned Celestial Beings to withdraw as Sikong Mei, Ling Ye, and Xin Musen retreated.
• Azure Feather dragged Thunder Emperor into the Spatial Maze, where the Soul-Binding Locks revealed that the other Domain Demons and Realm Beast Kings had been captured.
• Azure Feather tried to recruit Thunder Emperor, but the Sixth-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree warned that Thunder Emperor might be pretending in order to escape.
• Azure Feather repeatedly flung Thunder Emperor into the other bound Monsters, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu watched before leaving the Spatial Maze.
• Xin Musen, Ling Ye, Sikong Mei, and the Celestial Beings of the Mo, Huyan, and Baili families continued watching the Dunxi Hotel in Jiang City District Eleven.
• Ling Chu told the gathered High Celestial Realm experts that Shi Yuehan was behind the Bearded Pirate Crew.

Ling Chu revealed that Shi Yuehan had founded the Bearded Pirate Crew, convincing the Sikong Clan and Lingyue Pavilion that the principal was their enemy. Yun Yi then announced that the Xia Country Authorities would issue a worldwide warrant after the auction, leaving Xin Musen uneasy about the moral pressure now binding their plans.

• Ling Chu claimed Shi Yuehan had used the Reality Sequence to transform him into a monster and had recorded the video shown to the others.
• Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei began believing Ling Chu after comparing his account with Sikong Jue’s transformation.
• Ling Ye reminded the group that the Golden Wing Guard and Silver Wing Guard had bought the pirates’ hotel for 998, and Ling Chu identified them as the pirates Goldbeard and Silverbeard.
• Xin Musen and the Sikong siblings agreed that they could replace Shi Yuehan as principal without betraying Tianhuang Martial Arts University.
• Yun Yi announced that the Authorities would issue a worldwide warrant for the Bearded Pirate Crew after the auction and urged the group to protect the hostages.
• Xin Musen realized the Authorities’ warrant had placed moral shackles around his plans.

Yun Yi announced that Evil Ghost and his squad would come to Jiang City to pursue the Bearded Pirate Crew, and pressured Lingyue Pavilion and the martial arts families to fund and support the hunt. Ling Ye agreed to cooperate, but Ling Chu suddenly confronted Redbeard and Yellowbeard.

• Yun Yi said the Xia Country Authorities had already sent Evil Ghost and his squad to Jiang City to hunt the Bearded Pirate Crew.
• Xin Musen agreed that Lingyue Pavilion would provide money, resources, and Energy Sources to support the operation.
• Yun Yi demanded that the martial arts families also contribute money, resources, and manpower.
• Ling Ye pledged the families’ full cooperation in capturing the Bearded Pirate Crew.
• Ling Chu suddenly sprang forward and challenged Redbeard and Yellowbeard for showing their faces before him.

Ling Chu mistook an empty sofa for Redbeard and Yellowbeard, then unleashed his hidden Celestial Being strength in a rampage. He revealed he knew Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu were alive and used their supposed ghosts as an excuse to attack the Baili Family, while they watched and chose not to interfere.

• Ling Chu saw an empty sofa as Redbeard and Yellowbeard and attacked it with overwhelming killing intent, revealing that he was a Celestial Being.
• Ling Ye pinned Ling Chu down, but Ling Chu erupted with greater power, sent Ling Ye flying, and charged toward Lingyue Pavilion's base.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu followed Ling Chu and asked why he kept calling them Redbeard and Yellowbeard.
• Ling Chu admitted he knew their identities and planned to use their supposed ghosts as a pretext to eat people and grow stronger.
• Ling Chu changed course and stormed into the Baili Family estate, while the Baili Family's Celestial Being rushed to stop him.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu agreed to pretend they had never been there as Ling Chu's rampage continued.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu staged an appearance as the ghosts of Redbeard and Yellowbeard at Lingyue Pavilion’s base, creating an alibi while Ling Chu attacked the Baili Family. After Xin Musen rushed back to confront the supposed ghosts, the other Celestial Beings began to suspect Ling Chu had been misled.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu decided to make an alibi by appearing at Lingyue Pavilion while Ling Chu attacked the Baili Family.
• Shi Jiu used Divine Sequence: Space Sovereign to take Jiang Fu to Lingyue Pavilion’s temporary base in Jiang City District Three.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu disguised themselves as the ghosts of Pirate Redbeard and Pirate Yellowbeard, then struck Lingyue Pavilion’s Martial Artists with their sledgehammers.
• Xin Shilong called Xin Musen and reported that the ghosts of Redbeard and Yellowbeard had invaded the base, prompting Xin Musen to return immediately.
• The Mo Family’s Celestial Being questioned what Ling Chu was chasing, and Yun Yi suggested that Ling Chu alone knew what he had seen.
• The Mo Family’s Celestial Being asked Sikong Mei and her companion to investigate Lingyue Pavilion because the Mo and Huyan families had to guard their homes.

Yun Yi launched an official livestream to reveal that Pirate Redbeard and Pirate Yellowbeard had returned as ghosts and were attacking Lingyue Pavilion. The broadcast brought Jiang City's crisis to the public and showed Sikong Yi confirming their identities, while Yun Yi used it to create an alibi for Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu.

• Ling Chu went on a rampage at the Baili Family's Hillside Manor, attacking talented younger members while the Baili Family's Celestial Beings and Ling Ye tried to stop him.
• Sikong Mei and Sikong Yi left the Baili Family and went to Lingyue Pavilion after hearing that Redbeard and Yellowbeard's ghosts had appeared there.
• Yun Yi started an official ghost-hunting livestream, revealing Jiang City's crisis to martial artists and ordinary viewers.
• Yun Yi teleported to Lingyue Pavilion's compound but could not pass its defensive seals, so he filmed the ghosts from outside alongside Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei.
• Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei identified the attacking ghosts as Pirate Yellowbeard and Pirate Redbeard, and the livestream passed five million viewers.

Yun Yi livestreamed the authorities and Lingyue Pavilion confronting Redbeard and Yellowbeard at the Villa Complex, where their attacks could not land. After Xing Bin lifted the barrier, Shi Jiu struck him and Xin Shilong with her hammer, and Sikong Yi arrived to find his supposedly dead son Sikong Zhao holding his severed head.

• Yun Yi introduced himself and Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei to his livestream viewers, then asked Lingyue Pavilion to lower the Villa Complex's defense barrier.
• Xin Musen repeatedly failed to hit Yellowbeard or Redbeard and concluded they were ghosts.
• Xing Bin lifted the seal over the Villa Complex, but Shi Jiu hit him on the back of the head with her Pink-Bow Sledgehammer.
• Shi Jiu struck Xin Shilong with the hammer, knocking him to the ground while his defense item protected him from serious injury.
• Sikong Yi and the authorities entered the Villa Complex, and Sikong Yi saw Sikong Zhao clutching his blood-soaked head and pleading for revenge.

Yun Yi activated the Six Harmonies Heaven-Slaying Grand Formation to publicly destroy Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s ghostly disguises, helping them create an alibi while reinforcing the Authorities’ image. Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu vanished as ash, and Yun Yi warned them not to disguise themselves as another kind of supernatural being.

• Yun Yi ordered eighteen peak Return-to-Truth Authorities Martial Artists to form up and used a Formation Plate to deploy the Six Harmonies Heaven-Slaying Grand Formation.
• The Celestial Beings and Lingyue Pavilion Martial Artists were stunned as the array sealed the surrounding space and time and erupted in silver flames.
• Jiang Fu explained to Shi Jiu that Yun Yi was publicly creating an alibi for them and showing the Authorities’ strength.
• Yun Yi heard Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discussing their plan and told them to stop turning themselves into ghosts and other beings.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu pretended to be destroyed by the formation, crumbled into ash, and disappeared as Yun Yi again forbade them from nesting disguises.

Yun Yi used the Six Harmonies Heaven-Slaying Grand Formation to claim five Jiang City districts for the Xia Country Authorities, forcing Lingyue Pavilion and other factions to leave. Meanwhile, Lu Ming and Yu Shu planned to stop the authorities from recruiting Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, while Lu Pin secretly used Sign Language to lie about Shen Yan’s insurance-salesman disguise.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu left after Yun Yi deployed the formation, and the array expanded to cover Jiang City District Three through District Seven.
• Yun Yi declared the five districts under the Xia Country Authorities’ control and ordered all stationed forces to evacuate before daybreak.
• Xin Musen and Xing Bin led Lingyue Pavilion out of District Three as other factions and clans began evacuating too.
• Lu Ming and Yu Shu watched the livestream, feared Yun Yi would recruit Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, and decided to preside over an auction as Pirate Light Pinkbeard and Pirate Deep Bluebeard.
• At Dunxi Hotel, Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu learned that Lu Pin was practicing Sign Language because people kept covering his mouth.
• Lu Pin signed that Shen Yan looked like an insurance salesman, but Shen Yan misunderstood and went to the auction believing he could handle things alone.

Shen Yan launched the Bearded Pirate Crew’s second auction as Celestial Purplebeard, only to face a hall full of powerful business executives whose presence unsettled him. He regained control by overwhelming them with his Celestial Being pressure, then began the sale with a video of Ling Chu playing as background music rather than offering it for bids.

• Shen Yan entered the second auction dressed as Celestial Purplebeard and was overwhelmed by the commanding presence of the executives gathered there.
• A president from the Ling Family’s commercial division asked whether the auction could begin, and Shen Yan recovered his composure.
• Shen Yan released his Celestial Being pressure, shattering chairs and forcing the executives and their escorts to the floor.
• Shen Yan corrected the crowd, insisting they call him Pirate Purplebeard, and announced the second sale’s start.
• A video of Third Young Master Ling Chu, version 3.0, played throughout the hall, while Shen Yan said it was only background music and would not be auctioned.

Shen Yan’s livestream exposed Ling Chu’s plan to blame the Bearded Pirate Crew for killing and eating the factions’ geniuses, prompting the Baili and Qing Families to suspend their alliances with the Ling Family. The Mo and Huyan Families began questioning the Ling Family too, while the imprisoned Ling Chu’s other personality demanded to be released so he could eat again.

• Backstage, Silverbeard regretted that Purplebeard had turned the situation around so quickly, while Shi Jiu made clips of Yun Yi’s livestream that highlighted the Baili Family’s losses without naming them.
• Qing Juechen challenged Baili Changkong’s belief that a ghost had possessed Ling Chu, and the recorded auction audio revealed Ling Chu’s plan to kill and eat visiting geniuses before blaming the Bearded Pirate Crew.
• Baili Changkong suspended the Baili Family’s alliance with the Ling Family, and Qing Juechen suspended the Qing Family’s alliance and marriage agreement as he left with him.
• Shen Yan said the auction list contained everything the Bearded Pirate Crew had, prompting the Mo and Huyan Families to suspect that the Ling Family had taken their missing people too.
• Sikong Yi warned the Mo and Huyan representatives not to fall for a scheme to divide them, but they questioned whether the ghosts of Redbeard and Yellowbeard had really been destroyed.
• Imprisoned Ling Chu raged that his uncontrolled appetite had ruined the alliance, then his other personality demanded release so he could eat people on his own.

The Bearded Pirate Crew's auction livestream exposed Ling Chu's ability to devour Martial Artists and steal their Sequences, wrecking the Ling Family's attempted alliance. The auction proceeded with Shi Qingluan as its first lot, and Shi Qinglong bid to protect her from falling into the Ling Family's hands.

• The Mo Family and Huyan Aristocratic Family representatives left after seeing Ling Chu kill and absorb a Martial Artist in the auction video, while Ling Ye went to confront Ling Chu.
• Lu Pin admitted that the Bearded Pirate Crew had captured the missing Martial Artists and said he was using the auction to retaliate against the Ling Family.
• Shen Yan suppressed his Celestial Being aura, and the auction continued with the bidding rights for its first lot, Shi Qingluan, offered for a Divine Stone from the depths of the ocean.
• Shi Qinglong crushed his cup in anger at Shi Qingluan's appearance in the cage, and Jiang Wuchou warned him that the Ling Family would have been worse captors.
• Shi Qinglong placed a bid for Shi Qingluan.

Shi Qinglong bought back Tianhuang Martial Arts University’s abducted members, while the Bearded Pirate Crew put Ling Chu’s two grotesquely altered Puppet Bodies up for auction. Ling Chu tried to stop the sale, but Shen Yan said the Ling Family had lost its bidding rights.

• Shen Yan revealed that all ten auction qualifications had to be sold, and Shi Qinglong bought the remaining nine after purchasing the first.
• Shi Qinglong bought back all 108 Tianhuang Martial Arts University members, including Shi Qingluan, Golden Wing, and Silver Wing.
• Golden Wing and Silver Wing changed their faces and returned to the venue to watch the auction.
• Shen Yan put Ling Chu’s two backward-bodied Puppet Bodies up for auction, prompting factions to bid for a qualification.
• Ling Du announced that the two captives were not Ling Family members, but the Baili Family and other factions continued bidding.
• Ling Chu told the Ling Family representative to bid, but Shen Yan barred the family because it had withdrawn and revoked its eligibility for the coming auction of Ling Family Martial Artists.

Purplebeard forced the Ling Family to endure the Bearded Pirates’ auction while other factions stayed silent. The auction left the Ling Family’s fate in the Baili Family’s hands and revealed that hundreds of its members had been transformed like Ling Chu.

• Ling Du challenged Purplebeard, who blamed the Ling Family for striking first and restored his Celestial Being pressure, leaving Ling Du without allies at the auction.
• The Baili Family bought Ling Chu and Ling Chuchu for six Twelfth-Order Fire Flame Crystals, and Baili Changkong took them away.
• Shen Yan disqualified Ling Family members from bidding, and the auction displayed all two hundred and thirty-two of them with heads growing out of their buttocks.
• Backstage, Qing Ling celebrated his handiwork and told Silverbeard that he had informed his parents he was safe but did not care about the rest of his family.
• When a bidder asked whether the other captives had suffered the same fate, Shen Yan said the treatment was exclusive to Ling Family Martial Artists.

Shen Yan auctioned captured Ling Family and Sikong Clan Martial Artists, while Ling Ye suspected Shi Yuehan had used a reality sequence against the Ling Family. The Sikong Clan failed to bid for its people, and Shen Yan offered Sikong Yi’s researchers a chance to survive by destroying the clan’s Martial Artists themselves.

• Shen Yan explained that Qing Ling and Lu Pin’s sequences required sequence power, easing Lingyue Pavilion’s fears that its researchers and property were lost for good.
• When nobody bid for the more than two hundred backward-headed Ling Family Martial Artists, the Sword God asked to keep them as exhibits in the Bearded Pirate Crew’s zoo, and Shen Yan took them away.
• Shen Yan put the unharmed Sikong Clan Martial Artists up for auction, but their representative could not speak under his focused Celestial Being pressure, while Shi Qinglong ignored the clan’s calls for help.
• Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei failed to reach Shi Qinglong or Ling Ye, and Sikong Yi prepared to seek help from other families.
• After the Sikong Clan Martial Artists went unsold, Shen Yan offered to spare Sikong Yi’s Laboratory researchers if they destroyed the clan’s Martial Artists themselves.

Shen Yan pressured Tianhuang Martial Arts University’s Sikong-affiliated martial artists to turn on the Sikong Clan, then accepted Ling Du’s bid to rescue them by splitting them into two costly lots. Backstage, Shen Yan revealed he planned to silence the captives so the Ling Family could not buy them.

• Shi Jiu scheduled livestream clips and hired internet trolls to keep the incident trending, while Jiang Fu praised Shen Yan’s attack on the Sikong Clan.
• Shen Yan gave the martial artists from Tianhuang Martial Arts University one minute to prove their loyalty by disposing of the Sikong Clan members, leaving Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei in despair.
• Shi Qinglong considered using the crisis to expel the Sikong Clan from the university and strengthen the Shi Family’s position.
• Ling Du offered to take the bidding rights for the Sikong Clan martial artists, hoping to make the Sikong Clan indebted to the Ling Family.
• Shen Yan agreed but split the captives into two lots, demanding twenty Tier 12 Energy Sources for all twenty slots.
• Shen Yan asked Little Demon for a device to stop people from making a sound so the Ling Family could not buy the Sikong Clan members.

Shen Yan turned the auction into a scheme that earned the Ling Family’s twenty Tier 12 Energy Sources while stirring up conflict with the Sikong Clan. Backstage, Jiang Fu equipped the Bearded Pirate Crew with powerful invisibility talismans and defense items as the auction moved on to its next lot.

• Shen Yan used the bidding-right slots to collect twenty Tier 12 Energy Sources from the Ling Family and provoke tension between the Ling Family and the Sikong Clan.
• Jiang Fu assured Shen Yan he would protect him and gave Goldbeard, Silverbeard, Bluebeard, and Greenbeard stacks of powerful invisibility talismans.
• Qing Ling and Lu Pin celebrated using the talismans for their work, while Goldbeard and Silverbeard declared they would keep the crew’s treasures for themselves.
• Jiang Fu equipped Goldbeard, Silverbeard, and Bluebeard with visible high-grade Earth Rank defense items and concealed Emperor Grade defenses.
• Greenbeard exposed the Beards’ plan to make the principal of Tianhuang Martial Arts University their captain to take the blame, and Lu Pin confirmed they were telling the truth.
• Shen Yan announced the auction of ninety-nine martial artists from Tianhuang Martial Arts University’s Sikong Clan Laboratory.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu set out to interfere with the Ling Family, while the auction appeared to end with Ling Du winning the Sikong Clan captives. Ling Du then discovered his Storage Badge was empty and could not pay, leaving the captives in danger as Purplebeard accused the Ling Family of deliberately blocking the auction.

• Jiang Fu whispered an entertaining plan to Shi Jiu, and the two vanished together while Greenbeard considered following them.
• Ling Du won the two groups of Sikong Clan martial artists by bidding two Twelfth-Order Fire Flame Crystals, and Shen Yan confirmed the sale.
• Ling Du found his Storage Badge empty and accused Purplebeard of stealing his treasures.
• Shen Yan denied taking the treasures, while Purplebeard pointed out that pirates would not leave a Storage Badge behind and suggested Ling Du was acting deliberately.
• Ling Du said the Ling Family could not pay until after the auction, but Purplebeard refused to accept credit and accused the family of trying to prevent others from bidding on the Sikong Clan captives.

Purplebeard forced the Sikong Clan’s captive researchers and martial artists to kill the clan’s thirty-two fighters, while Ling Du discovered his valuables had disappeared. Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei blamed the Ling Family and resolved to rally old allies by revealing Shi Yuehan’s secret, as Yu Shu and Lu Ming arrived and discussed guiding Xiao Fu and Xiao Jiu.

• Purplebeard exposed Ling Du’s missing treasures and forced the captives to choose between killing the Sikong Clan martial artists or dying alongside them.
• The sixty-seven former Sikong Clan Laboratory personnel killed all thirty-two Sikong Clan martial artists, and Shi Qinglong invited the survivors back to Tianhuang Martial Arts University.
• Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei blamed the Ling Family for abandoning the Sikong Clan and decided to warn their old allies about Shi Yuehan’s secret.
• Sikong Yi and Sikong Mei headed to the Baili Family to buy back one of the two Ling Chus as evidence against Shi Yuehan.
• Yu Shu, Lu Ming, and Yun Yi appeared and joked about how they would steer Xiao Fu and Xiao Jiu onto the right path.

Yun Yi learned that the Bearded Pirate Crew planned to use the auction to extort Tianhuang Martial Arts University while preparing for a coming fight with the authorities. Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu turned their attention to their stolen spoils, and Shi Jiu emerged as Master Thief Redbeard after emptying Ling Du’s Storage Badge.

• Light Pinkbeard and Deep Bluebeard stopped Yun Yi from leaving and explained that they wanted to protect Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu from being recruited by the authorities.
• Yun Yi explained that Tianhuang Martial Arts University would buy Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu back at auction, giving the Bearded Pirate Crew a chance to drain the school’s resources before a planned crackdown.
• Deep Bluebeard said Death Barbie Pinkbeard had gone to hunt the Human-Skin Realm Beast, while Light Pinkbeard praised Little Yellowbeard’s ability to locate monsters.
• Yun Yi declined to join the Bearded Pirate Crew but recommended a timid young man to join and learn from Purplebeard.
• Shi Jiu worried over the revenge they planned against the Sikong Clan, and Jiang Fu assured her that the clan’s chief offenders would be dealt with last.
• Shi Jiu discovered Ling Du’s loot was meager, then revealed she had emptied his Storage Badge and become Master Thief Redbeard.