Chapter Summaries

Su Yu used her upgraded Sequence:Crimson King to erase the Ling Family’s memories of the black-clad group, leaving Ling Feng and Ling Chengyue frightened and confused. On Ink Abyss Island, Su Yu and Wen Shuhe discovered a lake of Abyss Potion, while Xia Yuncang failed to recognize Wen Shuhe in her younger appearance.

• Wen Shuhe knocked out the remaining eight Ling Family Sequence Martial Artists and kicked them into Su Yu’s sacks.
• Su Yu used Directed Forgetting to erase the Ling Family’s memories of the group’s visit, while Jiang Fu and the others quietly left the estate.
• Ling Feng and Ling Chengyue returned and learned that the Ling Family remembered nothing about the black-clad group, leading them to suspect Su Yu, the Bearded Pirates, the Authorities, or Sequence:001.
• Su Yu and Wen Shuhe stared in shock at the Abyss Potion lake on Ink Abyss Island.
• Wen Shuhe asked Xia Yuncang whether he recognized her, and Xia Yuncang said he did not.

The Bearded Pirate Crew discussed how to draw Lingyue Pavilion into a trap around Precious Dragon Island, where Goldbeard and Silverbeard were set to break through. Shi Jiu relayed Shen Yan’s advice to give Lingyue Pavilion more allies so it would believe it had the strength to attack both the crew and the Xia Country Authorities.

• Lu Pin, Qing Ling, and Han Sichen joked about Xia Yuncang and Wen Shuhe while the Beards gathered to discuss the planned breakthroughs on Precious Dragon Island.
• Ouyang Zheng warned that Lingyue Pavilion was wary of Xia Fan’s intelligence and would be difficult to lure into a trap.
• Shi Yi suggested calling Shen Yan for advice, and Shi Jiu sent him a message.
• Shen Yan advised finding Lingyue Pavilion more allies so it would believe it had the advantage over the Bearded Pirate Crew and the Xia Country Authorities.
• Qing Ling, Lu Pin, and Han Sichen explained that Lingyue Pavilion had always planned to attack the Authorities, leaving Shi Yi to pretend he had only been testing them.

The Bearded Pirates discussed alternate identities until Xia Yuncang arrived and offered to help Purplebeard broaden his horizons. After Xia Yuncang angered Wen Shuhe, Xue Qianlan, and Su Yu, he apologized, and Wen Shuhe revealed her identity in Li Country and her role in bringing the Blazing Sun Monarch into Xia Country.

• Lin Que explained that powerful martial artists could not easily hide their Sequences, prompting Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to consider how they might use their multiple Sequences.
• Ouyang Zheng offered to teach Purplebeard at Renxuan Martial Arts University, while Shi Yi objected to anyone poaching him from Tianhuang.
• Xia Yuncang appeared and revealed that Xia Fan was his grandnephew, then thanked Jiang Fu for helping Xia Fan become a Transcendent.
• Xia Yuncang encouraged Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to keep making Xia Fan take the blame, claiming it had improved Xia Fan's cultivation and mental acuity.
• Xia Yuncang teased Wen Shuhe, and Xue Qianlan, Su Yu, and Wen Shuhe surrounded him until he dropped to his knees and apologized.
• Wen Shuhe said she had an identity in Li Country and had used it to enter its upper ranks, helping Li Country bring the Blazing Sun Monarch into Xia Country.

Wen Shuhe revealed that she had secretly lived as Li Country’s world number two Sequence: Contract Maker, and Xia Yuncang decided the Bearded Pirate Crew was already part of Xia Country. He then claimed he planned to take over the Nether Phoenix Token, only for Shi Jiu to reveal that she was its leader.

• Wen Shuhe explained that she had used a High-grade Heavenly Rank Sequence: Imposter mask to assume her rival’s identity in Li Country.
• Xia Yuncang realized that the Bearded Pirate Crew was already closely tied to Xia Country and abandoned his plan to seize control of it.
• Xia Yuncang revealed that he was a core member of the Nether Phoenix Token and planned to take out its leader, the Nether Phoenix.
• Shi Jiu told Xia Yuncang that she was the new Nether Phoenix and explained that the Nether Phoenix Token had failed to uncover clues about her grandparents’ deaths.
• Shi Jiu said the Nether Phoenix Token’s members barely listened to her and asked Jiang Fu to check whether he had her identity badge.

Shi Jiu revealed that she was the new Nether Phoenix, and Jiang Fu discovered that the previous Nether Phoenix was alive and intended to harm her. The group began planning to expose and capture the previous Nether Phoenix while using the Nether Phoenix Token to draw her out.

• Xia Yuncang admitted he had planned to kill the new Nether Phoenix, and Shi Jiu revealed that she had inherited the position but lacked support within the organization.
• Jiang Fu tested the Nether Phoenix Token with his Potion ability and concluded that the previous Nether Phoenix was still alive and targeting Shi Jiu.
• Shi Jiu agreed to capture the previous Nether Phoenix, and Jiang Fu gave the token to Xia Yuncang.
• Lin Que found a Saint Ascension expert's mental imprint on the token that could reveal its location, while Xia Yuncang proposed taking control of the Nether Phoenix Token for the Bearded Pirate Crew.
• Wen Shuhe proposed using Shi Jiu's public appearance as the Nether Phoenix to lure the previous Nether Phoenix into joining an operation against Xia Country's Evil Ghost Squad and Seventh Squad.

Wen Shuhe and Xia Yuncang planned to use the Bearded Pirate Crew’s campaign to distract Li Country while recruiting Nether Phoenix Token to help target the Former Nether Phoenix. As Jiang Fu raised doubts about the token and warned that Lingyue Pavilion might have completed its Parasite Pills, the group prepared for their coming conflict.

• Wen Shuhe and Xia Yuncang discussed Li Country’s dispute with Xia Country and saw the fighting against the Bearded Pirate Crew as a chance to keep Li Country occupied.
• Wen Shuhe proposed inviting Nether Phoenix Token to act in Li Country’s name, and Xia Yuncang warned Shi Jiu that the Former Nether Phoenix might want something connected to the chance to become a god.
• Jiang Fu questioned whether Nether Phoenix Token referred to the organization or to its token, then concluded that the token itself was not from their world.
• Wen Shuhe urged the group to focus on Lingyue Pavilion, and Jiang Fu agreed while calling for backup plans and warning about Sequence · Gu Master's parasites.
• Su Yu suspected Lingyue Pavilion had deliberately leaked information about its Parasite Pills after secretly completing them, and Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu urged the group to prepare for Lingyue Pavilion’s schemes.
• Han Sichen took notes on the group’s reasoning, hoping to use what he learned to humiliate and destroy the Han Family.

Lingyue Pavilion planned to recover its Jiang City Research Institute from Precious Dragon Island while worrying that Xia Country and the Bearded Pirates had set a trap. After learning that the Eight Countries had summoned the Nether Phoenix Token to attack the island, Slaughter Lord revealed he was one of its Seven Great Token Envoys and received a summons.

• Xing Bin told Prison Lord and Slaughter Lord that the Bearded Pirates' lair and Lingyue Pavilion's missing research institute were on Precious Dragon Island, and warned that the situation might be a trap.
• Xing Bin proposed waiting until Goldbeard and Silverbeard completed their breakthroughs before striking, while Lingyue Pavilion remained bound by its Sequence Contract with Xia Country.
• You Xianfeng reported that Li Country's leadership had invited the Nether Phoenix and its experts to join the Eight Countries in attacking Xia Country.
• You Xianfeng said Xia Fan had publicized the research institute's location, prompting the Eight Countries to summon the Nether Phoenix Token and prepare to besiege Precious Dragon Island.
• Slaughter Lord told Prison Lord to keep Li Country in check and declared that he would kill the Nether Phoenix and seize its token.
• Slaughter Lord revealed that he was one of the Nether Phoenix's Seven Great Token Envoys, and an encrypted message summoned him.

Xia Fan was removed as leader of the Kill Hu Alliance and left the meeting hall, secretly delighted to be free. Meanwhile, Nether Phoenix Token members gathered to kill Little Nether Phoenix and seize her token, unaware that one of them had found her.

• Slaughter Lord and Prison Lord suspected the Nether Phoenix Summons was a trap and prepared to gather allies and conceal themselves.
• Shi Si removed Xia Fan from his leadership post, and Xia Fan pretended to leave in anger while hiding his relief.
• Shi Si ordered the alliance to kill Goldbeard and Silver Comb if they attempted their breakthroughs on Precious Dragon Island, and a bald man volunteered to fight Pinkbeard.
• Four emissaries and nine core members of the Nether Phoenix Token gathered to kill Little Nether Phoenix and take her token, while accepting jobs from several countries and Lingyue Pavilion.
• A woman among the gathered core members anticipated meeting her disciple, Little Nether Phoenix, whom she had finally found.

Slaughter Lord and the other Nether Phoenix Token members raced to Precious Dragon Island, suspecting Shi Jiu might be the new Nether Phoenix, while Jiang Fu explained that Lingyue Pavilion had exposed the Parasite Pill to sow distrust in Xia Country. At dawn, two spiritual-energy vortices appeared on the island, confirming the lurking martial artists’ suspicions.

• Slaughter Lord studied the Nether Phoenix Token’s coordinates and suspected Shi Jiu might be Pirate Redbeard and the new Nether Phoenix.
• Four envoys and nine core members agreed to hunt the Nether Phoenix carefully and flew toward Precious Dragon Island.
• Shi Yi asked Jiang Fu why Lingyue Pavilion had revealed the Parasite Pill, and Jiang Fu explained that it aimed to divide Xia Country’s leadership through fear and suspicion.
• Shi Yi settled down to read The Clever Person's Brain-Training Book while Shi Jiu slept in Jiang Fu’s arms.
• At dawn, two huge spiritual-energy vortices rose over Precious Dragon Island, and the lurking martial artists celebrated their prediction that the island was the target.

Goldbeard and Silverbeard completed their Celestial Being breakthroughs as the gathered forces prepared to attack Precious Dragon Island. Yun Yi discovered the Bearded Pirate Crew included powerful teachers, officials, and a Silver-Masked Saint Ascension, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu equipped the assembled pirates for the coming battle.

• Lingyue Pavilion and allied forces sealed the waters around Precious Dragon Island with eight spatial barriers and waited for Goldbeard and Silverbeard to finish their breakthroughs.
• Goldbeard and Silverbeard emerged with peak Celestial Being auras, prompting the allied forces to charge toward the island.
• Eight crystalline-blue beams formed a vast barrier, while Eyes of Insight swept the surrounding waters.
• Yun Yi recognized the Bearded Pirate Crew as professors, teachers, principals, and officials from several institutions, including a Silver-Masked Saint Ascension disguised as Cherry Redbeard.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu distributed Invisibility Talismans, Defense Items, and Abyss Potions to the Bluebeard and Pinkbeard crews as the pirates prepared for battle.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu armed the Bearded Pirate Crew with powerful items as the group prepared to fight, while Wen Shuhe encouraged Yun Yi to become a Saint Ascender. Slaughter Lord confronted Goldbeard and offered to make him his disciple, but Goldbeard challenged him to move him with a single strike.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu distributed Invisibility Talismans, Abyss Potions, and Defense Items to 506 elite members from Diyuan Martial Arts University and Renxuan Martial Arts University.
• Wen Shuhe gave Yun Yi the three treasures and urged him to cultivate until he could become Xia Country’s eighteenth Silver Face.
• Slaughter Lord arrived at Goldbeard’s secluded cultivation site, identified him as a Sequence: Slayer, and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Goldbeard agreed to become Slaughter Lord’s disciple if the Saint-Entering Slayer could move him, and said Slaughter Lord would become his disciple if he failed.
• Slaughter Lord struck Goldbeard with a blade formed from the slaughter Sequence, but the attack shattered against a flash of golden radiance.

Lingyue Pavilion and its allies attacked Precious Dragon Island, where Goldbeard used an Emperor Grade Defensive Sequence Item to withstand Slaughter Lord and train under Jiang Fu’s direction. The allied troops were overwhelmed by a flood of beards, while Jiang Fu noticed the eight Tier 12 Eyes of Insight and planned to use them to upgrade the True Glasses.

• Lingyue Pavilion sealed the area’s Spatial Sequence and launched formations at Precious Dragon Island as the allied forces surrounded it.
• Goldbeard’s Golden Mist shield blocked Slaughter Lord’s attacks, and Slaughter Lord mistakenly believed he could exhaust the item’s Energy Source and claim it.
• Jiang Fu told Goldbeard to fight Slaughter Lord and learn from him, prompting Slaughter Lord to unleash increasingly powerful martial arts.
• The allied army advanced on the island, but tens of thousands of beards surged out and devastated the troops that charged in.
• Jiang Fu spotted eight Tier 12 Eyes of Insight and said they could be used to upgrade the True Glasses.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s forces trapped the invading Martial Artists in a Spatial Maze while the Bearded Pirates vanished from Precious Dragon Island to attack the forces at sea. Shi Si blamed Lingyue Pavilion for masterminding the Bearded Pirates, and Lingyue Pavilion’s people were delighted by the accusation.

• Shi Jiu told Wen Shuhe, Yun Yi, and the others to ambush the enemy forces waiting at sea while she and Jiang Fu went after the Eyes of Insight.
• Su Yu, Xue Qianlan, Ouyang Zheng, and Lin Que prepared to knock out and capture the remaining enemies, while Yun Yi asked to keep one of the cannons.
• Hundreds of Bearded Pirates used Invisibility Talismans to leave Precious Dragon Island and charge toward the Martial Artists holding the line at sea.
• Jiang Fu’s Eye of the Deceiver and Spatial Maze sent the invading Martial Artists into an unfamiliar space filled with powerful creatures.
• The Prison Lord denied that the Reality Sequence and a Spatial Maze could have trapped them, but spatial walls formed around the Martial Artists, confirming Xia Yuncang’s suspicion.
• Shi Si accused Lingyue Pavilion of conspiring with the Bearded Pirates and Shi Yuehan, and Lingyue Pavilion’s people reacted with delight.

Shi Si turned suspicion toward Lingyue Pavilion and warned that the trapped martial artists could not safely attack the Spatial Maze while a Bearded Pirate infiltrator might strike them. He demanded that everyone sign a Contract against attacking one another, then looked toward the disguised martial artists of the Eight Countries.

• Shi Si accused Lingyue Pavilion of possibly being behind the Bearded Pirate Crew, prompting Xia Yuncang and other Xia Country experts to distance themselves from it.
• Xin Musen and Lingyue Pavilion's Celestial Beings began to doubt the Prison Lord, who furiously denied the accusation and blamed Xia Country.
• Xia Yuncang pressed the Prison Lord to explain the pirates' theft of the Jiang City Research Institute and how Lingyue Pavilion's Eyes of Insight and Space Lockdowns had failed to detect the Spatial Maze.
• A Soulless Token Envoy of the Nether Phoenix Token urged everyone to unite and break the maze, but Shi Si warned that an infiltrator could ambush them during a combined attack.
• Shi Si said Xia Country would rather remain trapped than risk an attack unless everyone signed a Contract not to harm one another, and he looked toward the martial artists of the Eight Countries hidden in the crowd.

The factions trapped in the Spatial Maze signed a binding Sequence Contract before attacking the maze’s Node, but their assault failed. Shi Si then revealed that the Evil Ghost Squad belonged to the Bearded Pirate Crew and had already struck Lingyue Pavilion’s leaders.

• Prison Lord proposed using a Sequence Contract, and the factions agreed to prohibit attacks on one another inside the Spatial Maze.
• The representatives created and signed a top-tier Sequence Contract based on Prison Lord’s contract, with amendments made by each faction.
• Soulless located the Spatial Maze’s Node, and the gathered forces attacked it, but the maze remained intact.
• Evil Ghost attacked Xin Musen, Prison Lord, and other Lingyue Pavilion martial artists, leaving them badly injured without triggering the contract.
• Shi Si revealed his bright pink hair and introduced himself as Death Barbie Pinkbeard of the Bearded Pirate Crew, while the Evil Ghost Squad declared themselves the Death Barbie Pink Squad.

Xia Yuncang and Shi Si revealed that Xia Country’s Seventh Squad had disguised itself as the Bearded Pirate Crew, leaving Lingyue Pavilion and the foreign forces trapped by their own Sequence Contracts. When Lingyue Pavilion’s fighters attacked, the contract’s backlash struck them, while the Xia Country forces could still attack as pirates.

• Shi Si revealed himself as Death Barbie Pinkbeard, and the 3,601-member Death Barbie Pink Squad appeared as the Seventh Squad recognized Lord Evil Ghost beneath the disguise.
• Xin Musen protested that Xia Country had signed a highest-level Sequence Contract, but Shi Si explained that the contracts bound Xia Country’s official squad, not the Bearded Pirate Crew.
• Xia Yuncang revealed himself as Pirate Blackbeard, prompting Xin Musen and Lingyue Pavilion’s other leaders to realize Xia Country had framed them and manipulated them into signing the contracts.
• Xia Yuncang and Shi Si ordered their squads to attack, but a woman called for the enemies to be crippled and kept as slaves instead of killed.
• After Xin Musen urged Lingyue Pavilion’s martial artists to strike first, the Sequence Contract’s backlash electrocuted many of them and burned the most aggressive attackers to ash.
• Shi Si explained that Xia Country’s fighters could attack as the Bearded Pirate Crew, while the contract prevented their enemies from attacking them.

Shi Jiu shrank the Spatial Maze and let the Bearded Pirate Crew capture the scattered martial artists, while Xia Yuncang revealed his identity as Azure Dragon to the Nether Phoenix Token envoys. A red-dressed woman wearing Old Silver Coin’s silver mask entered the maze, and the Li Country martial artists recognized her as their Contract Maker.

• The mysterious woman urged the trapped martial artists to flee, but Shi Jiu shrank the Spatial Maze and made escape harder.
• Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu revealed that the Spatial Maze held the fifty thousand martial artists, and the Bearded Pirate Crew began beating and capturing them.
• The Nether Phoenix Token envoys surrendered to Xia Yuncang, who revealed that he was Azure Dragon; Shi Si said the Nether Phoenix was her little sister.
• The pirates captured more than forty thousand martial artists, while the Li Country fighters wondered why their Sequence Contracts had failed.
• A woman in a red dress entered the maze wearing Old Silver Coin’s silver mask, and the Li Country martial artists recognized her as the Contract Maker.

Wen Shuhe revealed that she was both Xia Country’s First Sequence Contract Creator and Li Country’s He Shuwen, exposing how she had sabotaged the contract and trapped the captives. The captives learned that Wanqi Xiu was also a Li Country Saint Ascension, then discovered they would remain imprisoned in the Spatial Maze while Xia Country went to demand compensation from Lingyue Pavilion.

• Wen Shuhe removed her mask and fake beard, revealing that she was He Shuwen, Li Country’s famed Contract Creator and a Silver-Masked Saint Ascension of Xia Country.
• Wen Shuhe announced that she was Xia Country’s First Sequence Contract Creator and had also been acting as He Shuwen, leaving the captives stunned by her deception.
• Wanqi Xiu revealed himself as a Saint Ascension from Li Country and asked to leave the Spatial Maze with the other captives.
• Pirate Redbeard and Pirate Yellowbeard explained that the captives could still use their Sequences outside the maze, so they had to stay imprisoned.
• Xia Yuncang agreed with the pirates and said Xia Country would leave to demand compensation from Lingyue Pavilion.

After the Bearded Pirate Crew annihilated the allied force on Precious Dragon Island, Xia Country and other factions blamed Lingyue Pavilion and demanded compensation. Lingyue Pavilion agreed to pay while Xing Jun plotted to use the crisis to divide its accusers, and Slaughter Lord kept pursuing Goldbeard.

• The Bearded Pirate Crew defeated the allied forces on Precious Dragon Island, killing two Xia Country squads and a Silver-Masked Saint Ascension and capturing or routing many others.
• Lu Yuanchen blamed Lingyue Pavilion for the defeat, while Xia Fan accused it of forcing him out despite his warnings not to land on the island.
• Xia Country demanded compensation from Lingyue Pavilion and ordered its Eight Great Martial Arts Families to join the condemnation.
• Li Country and the other countries also demanded compensation, with Li Country accusing Lingyue Pavilion of allowing a high celestial Transcendent to be infested by a parasite.
• Lingyue Pavilion accepted that it would pay, but Xing Jun saw an opportunity to divide the factions demanding compensation.
• Slaughter Lord continued chasing Goldbeard and hacking at him, focused on the God-level Sequence Item he could not shake.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu discovered that the seemingly young Former Nether Phoenix concealed an ancient, parasitic presence stronger than Saint Ascension. Realizing she was likely the First Nether Phoenix and an Overlord-level threat, they decided to keep her imprisoned until they became stronger.

• The Bearded Pirate Crew watched the Slaughter Lord teach Martial Arts while Jiang Fu searched the Spatial Maze’s prisoners with the Stone.
• Jiang Fu identified the Former Nether Phoenix among the prisoners and found that her apparent Middle Celestial Realm cultivation concealed Saint Ascension strength.
• Shi Jiu used Divine Sequence: Hell to see that the Former Nether Phoenix had an old soul sealed around several terrifying presences.
• Jiang Fu compared her to the God King Corpse and concluded that she was probably the First Nether Phoenix, having consumed later Nether Phoenixes and layered their souls over her own thought.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu judged the hidden presence to be an Overlord and chose to leave her imprisoned while they cultivated the God King Method, “Primordial Beginning.”