Chapter Summaries

The Authorities' Saint Ascensions used Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu's Realm Beast Detector to discover a swarm outside Ancient Cold Pass, then rushed to Tianhuang Martial Arts University to support them. As the Ling Family arrived to apologize and offer compensation, Ling Chengyue recognized Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu as the Bearded Pirates and attacked Jiang Fu.

• The Authorities' Old Silver Coin and the Saint Ascensions tested the Realm Beast Detectors and spotted more than a hundred Realm Beasts outside Ancient Cold Pass.
• The Authorities' Old Silver Coin sent one Saint Ascension to deal with the Realm Beasts and led the others toward Tianhuang Martial Arts University to back up Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu.
• Diyuan and Renxuan told the Saint Ascensions that the Domain Demon Detector was nearing completion and that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had supplied Lord of Crimson Azure, Ying Sui.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu told Shi Yi that Granduncle had urged them to make trouble and that they planned to deal with the Ling Family with Qing Ling and Principal Xia.
• Ling Chengyue, Ling Feng, and other Ling Family members arrived at Tianhuang Martial Arts University to apologize and offer compensation to Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu.
• Ling Chengyue recognized Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu as Redbeard and Yellowbeard of the Bearded Pirates, then punched at Jiang Fu.

Ling Chengyue attacked Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu at Wind Feather Laboratory, but the Authorities' Silver-Masked Saint Ascension stopped him. Ling Feng apologized and offered compensation before demanding the Realm Beast Detector, only for Shi Jiu to reveal that Ling Chengyue had broken it.

• Ling Chengyue struck at Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, but the Silver-Masked Saint Ascension blocked the attack and sent him flying.
• Ling Chengyue accused Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu of being Bearded Pirates and lunged at them again, so Ling Feng knocked him unconscious.
• Jiang Fu challenged Ling Feng's apology, and the Silver-Masked Saint Ascension demanded an apology and compensation from the Ling Family.
• Ling Feng received a message that Bearded Pirates were invading the Ling Family compound, then offered a Heaven-Tier Upper-Grade Sequence Item and demanded the Realm Beast Detector.
• Shi Jiu said Ling Chengyue had broken the Realm Beast Detector.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu blamed Ling Feng for destroying the Realm Beast Detector and demanded compensation, using the danger to Ancient Cold Pass to pressure the Ling Family. With Tianhuang Martial Arts University’s Saint Ascensions and Su Yu backing them, Jiang Fu took the Ling Family’s Hengluo Flying Boat and demanded two more High-grade Heavenly Rank Sequence Items.

• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu claimed Ling Feng had destroyed their Realm Beast Detector, producing fragments from a supermarket shopping bag as proof.
• The Ling Family’s Martial Artists grew furious, but the official Old Silver Coin and Shi Yi protected Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu while Tianhuang Martial Arts University personnel demanded compensation.
• Su Yu appeared in the sky and joined the pressure on Ling Feng, whose confidence faltered before her Crimson King Sequence.
• Jiang Fu picked up the Ling Family’s Hengluo Flying Boat and demanded two more High-grade Heavenly Rank Sequence Items as compensation.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu threatened that Ling Feng’s refusal to compensate them would endanger people at Ancient Cold Pass, then privately remarked that moral blackmail needed powerful backing.

Su Yu and the others pressured the Ling Family to compensate them for destroying the Realm Beast Detector, while the Authorities used the dispute as a pretext to seize the family. The Ling Family handed over its clan treasure, but Shi Jiu secretly secured the storage ring, and Su Yu demanded compensation for her Abyss Potion.

• Su Yu drank five bottles of Abyss Potion and demanded compensation from the Ling Family for destroying the Realm Beast Detector.
• Ling Feng gave Jiang Fu the Mistlight Canopy, but Su Yu insisted it was not enough.
• An Authorities official accused the Ling Family of betraying humanity and ordered the fourteen Saint Ascendants to arrest its members.
• Ling Feng surrendered Ling Chengyue's storage ring to Jiang Fu, who passed it to Shi Jiu; she hid it in her Extreme Dao True Water Realm.
• Su Yu demanded that the Ling Family also compensate her for the five bottles of Abyss Potion she had used.

Su Yu forced the Ling Family to give her ten bottles of Abyss Potion and a High-grade Heavenly Rank Blood Moon Scarlet Cloud Spear. A returning old man revealed that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had delivered a Realm Beast Detector to Ancient Cold Pass, where it helped kill the Realm Beast King, exposing their deception of Ling Feng.

• Su Yu threatened the Ling Family with her Crimson King Sequence and demanded ten bottles of Abyss Potion and a High-grade Heavenly Rank weapon.
• Ling Feng reluctantly gathered the potions and surrendered the Blood Moon Scarlet Cloud Spear to Su Yu.
• An excited old man returned to the Wind Feather Laboratory with the corpse of the Realm Beast King and reported that he had killed the beasts at Ancient Cold Pass using the Realm Beast Detector.
• Ling Feng accused Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu of tricking him about the detector, but they explained that they had delivered one before returning.
• Ling Feng vomited blood and ordered the Ling Family to leave.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu helped the Ancient Cold Pass experts kill Realm Beast King Torrent Crocodile, and the corpse was donated to Tianhuang Martial Arts University. After the experts departed, university administrators stopped Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to discuss the donation, but Shi Jiu insisted the university belonged to them.

• Ling Feng left Tianhuang Martial Arts University with Ling Chengyue and Ling Chenglu after refusing the Authorities' offer to pursue supposed pirates at the Ling Family.
• Students gathered to see Realm Beast King Torrent Crocodile's corpse as an elderly Saint Ascension expert credited Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu with helping kill it and donated it to Tianhuang Martial Arts University.
• Jiang Fu asked whether Realm Beast King Torrent Crocodile was stronger than Giant Tyrant, and Shi Jiu claimed they had seen Giant Tyrant at the Bearded Pirate Crew's lair.
• The old schemer from the Authorities ordered the Saint Ascension experts back to Ancient Cold Pass, and one expert gave Jiang Fu the corpse in a Storage Item.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu celebrated their gains and planned to give Su Yu the rest of her Bearded Pirate Crew gear.
• Senior administrators stopped Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu over the donated corpse, and Shi Jiu said Tianhuang Martial Arts University belonged to them.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu took control of Wind Feather Laboratory, rebuffed Tianhuang Martial Arts University’s administrators, and turned the Torrent Crocodile’s corpse into a public attraction. They returned to the laboratory to inspect their newly acquired treasures, with Su Yu joining them while Yu Tianfeng was left ignored.

• Huyan Lie and Mo Yankong asked Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to let university staff join Wind Feather Laboratory, but Shi Jiu agreed only to select researchers from a list he would prepare.
• Shi Yi backed Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, silencing the administrators, who left without further argument.
• Jiang Fu used the Torrent Crocodile’s corpse to demolish the surrounding campus buildings, leaving Wind Feather Laboratory intact.
• Jiang Fu displayed the corpse for students to examine and eat, drawing cheers across Tianhuang Martial Arts University.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu headed into the laboratory to inspect the Hengluo Flying Boat, the Grand Cosmos Heaven-Reaching Tower, and the Ling Family head’s storage item, while Su Yu followed them inside.
• Shi Yi saw Yu Tianfeng, newly become the youngest Celestial Being in human history, standing unnoticed.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discussed activating sequences for Su Yu’s researchers, then startled the Order Divine Artifact by revealing their breakthroughs and game-based cultivation method. Their conversation ended when Shi Yi called them downstairs to meet officials about their pill patents.

• Jiang Fu gave Su Yu powerful Invisibility Talismans and Defense Items, and she offered him her Abyss Potions in exchange for strawberry-flavored ones.
• Jiang Fu asked Su Yu about her Parasite Pill research, then proposed activating her researchers’ sequences without returning to Ink Abyss Island.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu asked the Order Divine Artifact about higher realms, and Shi Jiu claimed to have surpassed God King.
• Jiang Fu played a game and advanced from the initial Return-to-Truth Realm to the mid Return-to-Truth Realm, astonishing the Order Divine Artifact.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu said their National Pirate Plan would bring Shi Jiu’s game-based cultivation invention to the world.
• Shi Yi called Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu downstairs to meet the Authorities’ Patent Office about patents for the Vitality Pill, Life Restoration Pill, and Divine Power Pill.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu welcomed a Silver-Masked Saint Ascension from the Patent Office, who offered to transfer the Sikong Clan Laboratory’s results to them in exchange for Abyss Potion. After discussing the Vitality Pill, Jiang Fu proposed selling it for nineteen eighty a bottle while distributing some to students.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu hid from the Order Divine Artifact after it warned them not to transform into stronger divine beings.
• Shi Yi and Su Yu guarded the stairs when a Silver-Masked Saint Ascension arrived, claiming he had come to register Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s patents.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu gave the Silver-Masked Old Silver Coin two jars of Abyss Potion, and he offered them the Sikong Clan Laboratory’s results and to bear any remaining Sequence backlash.
• Su Yu revealed that she had joined the Bearded Pirate Crew and showed off her own jars of Abyss Potion, tempting the Old Silver Coin to join.
• Jiang Fu proposed distributing Vitality Pills to students by quota and selling them to adults for nineteen eighty a bottle.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu arranged to sell Vitality Pills cheaply and distribute them free in schools, putting Shi Yi in charge of protecting the plan. The Old Silver Coin agreed to their wider pill pricing scheme and accepted Eternal-grade Invisibility Talismans, then decided to use them to hunt monsters beyond Ancient Cold Pass.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu proposed selling Vitality Pills ten for nineteen eighty and giving them away in schools, and the Old Silver Coin suspected they wanted to turn Xia Country into pirates.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entrusted the pill distribution to Shi Yi, who promised to crush anyone who interfered as Bloodred Beard.
• Su Yu offered to help, but Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, the Old Silver Coin, and Shi Yi rejected her offer because they feared she would steal the profits.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu persuaded the Old Silver Coin to approve nineteen-eighty prices for other pills and handed him Abyss Potion for the Elixir Contracts.
• Jiang Fu gave the Old Silver Coin three Eternal-grade Invisibility Talismans after he asked whether they would expose someone impersonating the Bearded Pirates.
• The Old Silver Coin realized the talismans could conceal him from Saint Ascension experts and decided to go beyond Ancient Cold Pass to kill monsters.

Jiang Fu and his companions launched their plan to sell Vitality Pills cheaply and recruit people into the Bearded Pirate Crew, while Su Yu warned that Old Silver Coin’s decree tied Jiang Fu to the authorities. The chapter ended with Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu heading to the Ling Family to activate Sequences for seven Spirit Domain Laboratory researchers.

• Old Silver Coin gave Jiang Fu an official decree bearing his Sequence Mark after taking the Invisibility Talismans.
• Su Yu explained that the decree could make people see Jiang Fu as Old Silver Coin’s subordinate and that Old Silver Coin doubted the cheap pill plan could work.
• Jiang Fu revealed that the Bearded Pirate Crew had a production plant on Ink Abyss Island capable of producing Vitality Pills at enormous speed.
• Shi Yi revealed that Seventh Brother, Sixth Brother, and Eighth Brother had been stealing Sikong Clan companies under Ling Chu’s identity.
• Jiang Fu declared the National Pirate Plan officially launched and set off with Shi Jiu to the Ling Family with Old Silver Coin’s decree.

Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu, and Su Yu planned to use the Ling Family to awaken sequences for Wei Junjie and his six companions while investigating Sequence:001. They also plotted to expose Lingyue Pavilion’s Sequence: Outlaw and make the authorities help the Bearded Pirate Crew, leaving Shi Yi struggling to keep up.

• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu persuaded Su Yu to take their order to the Ling Family and demand resources and sequence martial artists for Wei Junjie and his six companions.
• Su Yu agreed after deciding she could protect herself, and the group expected the weakened Ling Family to comply because sequence awakenings brought rewards from the Abyss.
• Su Yu asked whether Sequence: Outlaw was real, and Jiang Fu said they needed to capture its user to learn more.
• Shi Jiu proposed attacking Lingyue Pavilion with the authorities, robbing its laboratories, releasing Sequence: Outlaw blood samples, and driving sequence martial artists to hunt Lingyue Pavilion.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu revealed that they also intended to meet Sequence:001 at the Ling Family, while Su Yu accepted that the Ling Family would take the blame.

After repeated raids left the Ling Family estate in ruins and the family lost control of Imperial Capital District 62, disguised members of the Authorities arrived with an order assigning the Ling Family a mission. The chapter ended with them promising the family seven bottles of whatever the Abyss sent down in exchange for helping seven gifted geniuses awaken their Sequences.

• The Ling Family began rallying to rebuild after its headquarters was plundered, while Ling Chengyue acknowledged that the Authorities had taken over much of District 62.
• Eleven black-robed visitors entered the estate and mocked the Ling Family for being robbed repeatedly.
• Ling Chengyue and Ling Feng questioned the visitors, and Black-Robed Person · Fu claimed they were from the Authorities and had come to offer sympathies.
• Black-Robed Person · Yu displayed an official written order, convincing Ling Feng and Ling Chengyue that the group represented the Authorities.
• Black-Robed Person · Yu announced that the Ling Family must help seven gifted geniuses awaken their Sequences and would receive whatever the Abyss sent down as compensation.

Su Yu persuaded the Ling Family to fund a Sequence Awakening Ceremony for seven people, promising the family compensation and support from the Authorities. Only Wei Junjie awakened his sequence, and Sequence:001 began to impose its confidentiality agreement before reacting in alarm.

• Su Yu told Ling Feng that the Ling Family had to provide the abyss fruits, potions, venue, and sequence martial artists, while the family would keep the seven bottles awarded after the awakenings.
• Yi revealed a trace of Saint Ascension aura and promised the Authorities would fund the Ling Family's reconstruction, so Ling Chengyue agreed to host the ceremony.
• Ling Feng gathered twenty-two Ling Family sequence martial artists around Wei Junjie and the other six in the rear courtyard chamber.
• After fourteen seconds of black flames, Wei Junjie awakened his sequence, while the other six failed.
• Shi Jiu called the outcome profitable, then Sequence:001 began forming a confidentiality agreement and abruptly exclaimed in surprise.

Wen Shuhe learned that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had turned her plan against the Ling Family, then went to watch the ensuing trouble. At the Ling Family’s Sequence Awakening Ceremony, sequence:001 attacked Ling Chengyue, and Jiang Fu realized the entity was not a sequence martial artist.

• Wen Shuhe killed a Realm Beast King, returned with its crystal core, and savored the powerful Abyss Potion she had received from Tianhuang Martial Arts University.
• A man told Wen Shuhe that someone had used her written order to demand that the Ling Family awaken seven martial artists’ sequences, and she approved the request and ordered seven bottles of Abyss Potion sent to them.
• Wen Shuhe changed into a youthful appearance and headed to the Ling Family estate to watch for a chance to profit.
• Sequence:001 attacked Ling Chengyue with a hand of black flame, and Ling Feng struck back to protect her.
• Jiang Fu used the Eye of Deception to make sequence:001 target Ling Chengyue, while Shi Jiu pointed out that it had fled from Qing Ling on Ink Abyss Island.
• Jiang Fu concluded that the sequence:001 hovering above them was not a sequence martial artist.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu attacked Sequence:001, but their strikes did no lasting harm, and the Ling Family struggled to protect Ling Chengyue. Wen Shuhe appeared and revealed that she had been the masked person who gave them her token, leaving Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to react to her beauty.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu combined a multiplied spear thrust with Space Control to destroy Sequence:001’s flaming hand, but Sequence:001 remained unharmed.
• Sequence:001 threatened the Ling Family, then charged at Ling Chengyue again, prompting Ling Feng and the other Ling Family Martial Artists to defend their Family Head.
• Shi Yi explained that the Ling Family could not use Sequences against Sequence:001 because he was the source of all Sequences.
• Wen Shuhe appeared beside Jiang Fu’s group, identified herself as the person whose token they carried, and revealed her face.
• Jiang Fu praised Wen Shuhe as the most beautiful woman in the world, then said Shi Jiu was the world.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu watched as Wei Junjie revealed his Flame Porter sequence and discovered it could affect sequence:001’s black flames. With the flames weakened, Ling Chengyue unleashed his sequence power and attacked sequence:001 with a blade of darkness.

• Wen Shuhe questioned why sequence:001 was chasing Ling Chengyue, and Jiang Fu suggested the Ling Family had provoked him.
• Jiang Fu asked Wei Junjie what sequence he had awakened, and Wei Junjie explained that Flame Porter could strengthen or weaken flames.
• Shi Jiu urged Wei Junjie to use his sequence on sequence:001, and Jiang Fu encouraged him to act.
• Wei Junjie activated Flame Porter, causing sequence:001’s black flames to explode and blast away the Ling Family Martial Artists.
• Wei Junjie weakened the flames by ten percent, and Ling Chengyue formed a black blade from darkness and slashed at sequence:001.

Ling Chengyue destroyed Sequence:001’s clone, but the Ling Family discovered their feud with Sequence:001 was not over. Su Yu and her companions provoked the family, denied ties to the Authorities, and left Ling Feng stunned by Su Yu’s mastery of the family’s Blood Moon Scarlet Cloud Spear.

• Ling Chengyue used Sequence: Black Annihilation to cut Sequence:001’s clone in half, and Wen Shuhe explained that his true body was still alive.
• Wei Junjie returned a bottle of Abyss Potion to the Ling Family, then used Psychokinesis to take it back when they did not respond.
• Ling Chengyue asked whether the Authorities were behind the group, but Wen Shuhe and the others denied having any written authorization.
• Su Yu revealed the Blood Moon Scarlet Cloud Spear, and Ling Feng recognized that she had completely refined the Ling Family’s weapon in less than half a day.
• Su Yu called herself Crimson Beard, Pirate Xia of the Bearded Pirate Crew, and introduced Wen Shuhe as Peach Red Beard.

Wen Shuhe joined Su Yu’s pirates and attacked the Ling Family, while Ling Feng and Ling Chengyue faced their assault inside the sealed chamber. As Ling Family fighters fled, they suddenly turned back and attacked Ling Chengyue, leaving the family head bewildered.

• Su Yu offered Wen Shuhe unlimited pirate supplies, and Wen Shuhe chose to join the crew as Cherry Redbeard and rob the Ling Family.
• Shi Yi revealed that she was the pirate Bloodred Beard who had previously robbed the Ling Family.
• Wen Shuhe unleashed her aura against Ling Chengyue, while Ling Feng recognized that three Saint Ascensions had entered the family’s stronghold.
• Shi Jiu announced the robbery, and Jiang Fu used Abyss Potion to reset his God Sequence Yellow Hair.
• Ling Ye and other fleeing Ling Family Sequence Martial Artists turned back and attacked Ling Chengyue, while Ling Feng repeatedly blocked their strikes.
• Ling Chengyue realized that his own people were trying to kill him and was left completely confused.

The Bearded Pirates robbed the Ling Family by knocking out its martial artists and stuffing them into a sack. Ling Feng fled with Ling Chengyue after triggering a spatial collapse, but Shi Jiu reversed the destruction and left the remaining Ling Family fighters at Su Yu’s mercy.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu hammered the Ling Family martial artists Ling Feng had sent flying, while Su Yu stuffed the unconscious fighters into a sack.
• Wei Junjie told Shi Yi and Wen Shuhe that the Bearded Pirates were robbing the Ling Family by taking its people.
• Wen Shuhe suppressed Ling Feng’s aura, so Ling Feng seized Ling Chengyue and fled while triggering the sealed space’s collapse.
• Shi Jiu stopped the spatial collapse and restored the shattered space, astonishing Wen Shuhe and Shi Yi.
• Shi Jiu reminded the remaining Ling Family fighters that Ling Feng had abandoned them, and Su Yu offered them the choice of entering her sack or being knocked out and stuffed inside.