Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu forced Ling Hai and 236 Martial Artists to sign slave contracts, then sent their crew toward Aka Country's Divine Kingdom Base. Mu Qingshuang revealed that Xia Country ranked eleventh in the Skyvault Desert because its strongest fighters were defending the Azure Abyss Forbidden Zone, and the crew set out invisible to raid the base.

• Under pressure from the Transcendents, Ling Hai and 236 Martial Artists signed the Miner Contract, which was actually a Slave Contract.
• Jiang Fu said the Ling, Mo, and Huyan Families would be punished for joining Xing Jun in destroying Li Country's Blazing Sun Base, despite his earlier promise not to involve them.
• Shi Jiu sent Ling Hai and the others through the Space Mirror into the Mist Forbidden Zone, while Jiang Fu chose Aka Country's Divine Kingdom Base as the crew's next target.
• Mu Qingshuang explained that Xia Country ranked eleventh in the Skyvault Desert because its reclusive powerhouses, including Jiang Fu's great-grandfather, guarded the Azure Abyss Forbidden Zone.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu declared that the Bearded Pirate Crouching Dragon Crew would take charge of the Skyvault Desert, then led 256 invisible Beards toward Divine Kingdom Base behind Xing Jun.

Mu Qingshuang followed Xing Jun as the Bearded Pirates’ crew prepared to collect the spoils from Blazing Sun Base. Xing Jun then led the assault on Aka Country’s Divine Kingdom Base, and after it fell, the pirates set their sights on more bases—including their own Crouching Dragon Base.

• Mu Qingshuang left Blazing Sun Base after Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu said their logistics team would collect the treasures and study the Summoning Array.
• Xing Jun emerged from Blazing Sun Base, and nearby Martial Artists mistook his actions for Lingyue Pavilion attacking the other countries’ bases.
• Xing Jun broke through Divine Kingdom Base’s Heavenly Rank War Fortress gate and entered, prompting Aka Country to summon its Demigod-level Angel God.
• Jiang Fu activated the Sequence-Forbidden Domain, sealing the Angel God and the Martial Artists’ powers, and the Crouching Dragon Pirates knocked out and bound Aka Country’s defenders.
• After taking Divine Kingdom Base, Granny and Zhang Erhe urged the pirates to raid the Ouro Country Main Base and then their own Crouching Dragon Base to disguise Xia Country’s involvement.

The Bearded Pirates destroyed bases across the Skyvault Desert while Pu Country and Lingyue Pavilion tried to blame Xia Country, only for Xing Jun to attack Xia Country’s own Crouching Dragon Base as well. By sunrise, nearly every main base had fallen, and the Pirates moved on to Xuan Country’s surrendering Blackwater Base, leaving Pu Country and Lingyue Pavilion unable to clear their names.

• Pu Country and Lingyue Pavilion accused Xia Country of destroying the bases and warned that Greenwood Base was next.
• Xing Jun attacked and destroyed Xia Country’s Crouching Dragon Base, while a hacker spread claims that the attacks followed a route of nearby bases.
• The Bearded Pirates’ logistics team, led by Yun Yi and Yu Liuli, cleaned up the ruins and divided their next destinations.
• By sunrise, twenty of the twenty-two main bases near the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone had been destroyed, with Blackwater Base and Greenwood Base still standing.
• Xuan Country’s three fourth-realm Saint Ascension experts surrendered at Blackwater Base, but Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu still captured the base’s people as miners.
• Pu Country and Lingyue Pavilion remained under suspicion after Xing Jun repeatedly passed their base during the night.

After the Crouching Dragon Crew destroyed the main bases and raided the small bases across the Skyvault Desert, Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu drove the Hundred-Ton King into the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone’s buffer desert. They attacked Xia Country’s outpost while disguised as Pu Country experts, and the chapter ended with a giant hand grabbing the fortress.

• Xing Jun greeted Greenwood Base for the seventh time, then vanished after wrecking Lingyue Pavilion’s plans.
• Great-Grandma sent the invisible Crouching Dragon Crew to raid the small bases, leaving Pu Country’s four bases untouched and isolating Pu Country internationally.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu restarted the modified Hundred-Ton King and drove toward the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone with Mei Youqian and Long Batian.
• The Hundred-Ton King passed through the Safety Passage into the desert beyond the Defense Wall, where twenty-two outposts stood before the sea of flames.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu disguised the group as Pu Country experts and rammed Xia Country’s outpost, then a massive hand seized the fortress.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu watched as Xing Jun, disguised as Pu Country’s Divine Wood Puppet, demolished strongholds throughout the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone and slaughtered fleeing martial artists. An Xuan Country survivor escaped through the Safety Passage, only to find Xuan Country’s main base in ruins.

• A woman resembling Granny tried to defend the Xia Country stronghold, but the disguised Xing Jun crushed her and the fortress.
• The Divine Wood Puppet destroyed the Li Country and Ouro Country strongholds, sending martial artists fleeing in panic.
• The puppet left Pu Country’s outpost untouched while crushing Pu Country martial artists who approached to negotiate.
• The puppet chased down fleeing martial artists, and survivors vowed to confront Pu Country at their main base.
• An Xuan Country martial artist escaped through the Safety Passage and found Xuan Country’s main base reduced to ruins.

After Pu Country and Lingyue Pavilion destroyed the bases across the Skyvault Desert, Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu met Mu Qingxue, Mu Qingshuang’s older sister, inside the wall. Mu Qingxue learned that more than seventy years had passed, then joined the pair as they prepared to leave and pursue their goal of seizing the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone.

• Escaped martial artists from Xuan Country and other factions found their bases in ruins and learned from the news that Pu Country and Lingyue Pavilion had destroyed them.
• The surviving martial artists fled the Skyvault Desert rather than seek revenge, fearing the Great Wild Heaven-Devouring Python.
• Mu Qingxue realized that more than seventy years had passed while she remained stationed inside the wall and discovered that Mu Qingshuang had become a great-grandmother.
• Mu Qingxue introduced herself to Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu as their great-grandmother’s older sister and asked them to call her big sister.
• Shi Jiu explained her family tree, and Jiang Fu admitted they had not known they had a great-grandmother until they came to the Skyvault Desert.
• Jiang Fu said they had blamed Pu Country for convenience, while Shi Jiu revealed that their main goal was to seize the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entered Mercyfire Forbidden Zone to claim its resources, but its spatial divisions separated them until their Gods of Fishing brought them together. Shi Jiu proposed turning the forbidden zone into Mist Forbidden Zone, and Jiang Fu multiplied the Space Mirror’s power to force a gateway open and flood Mercyfire Forbidden Zone with mist.

• Mu Qingxue agreed to guide Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, but Zheng Yuanchuan warned that her previous expeditions had cost many people their lives.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu departed, while Long Batian and Mei Youqian received gear and began explaining their connection to Jiang Fu to the Xia Country experts.
• Jiang Fu sent Xing Jun into the Extreme Dao True Water Realm, then entered Mercyfire Forbidden Zone with Shi Jiu and found himself alone in an orange-red desert.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu used their Gods of Fishing to pull each other into a third space, where they realized different cultivation levels had sent them to separate spaces.
• Shi Jiu proposed turning Mercyfire Forbidden Zone into Mist Forbidden Zone, and Jiang Fu multiplied the Space Mirror’s spatial bridging power, opening a gateway through which mist poured.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu unleashed the Mist Forbidden Zone’s power into the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone, overwhelming its flames and spreading mist through multiple spaces. At the heart of the conflict, the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone’s master accused Mist Lord of starting a Forbidden Zone War.

• Shi Jiu turned the Space Mirror into a one-way passage, but the Mercyfire flames surged against the mist entering from the Mist Forbidden Zone.
• Jiang Fu multiplied the mist’s power and invasion several times, allowing it to spread through the Mercyfire flames and across the region.
• Shi Jiu used the Spacetime Boundary Star Disk to send mist into other spaces and discovered an enormous altar at the center of the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone.
• The Mercyfire altar released increasingly violent flames as mist closed in, while the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone’s master confronted Mist Lord about the invasion.
• Mist Lord denied responsibility, but the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone’s master accused her of bringing the Mist Forbidden Zone into a war.

The Mercyfire Forbidden Zone Master blamed the Mist Lord for the Mist Forbidden Zone’s invasion and ordered her killed, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu watched and recognized her as an Undead from the Cage World. Jiang Fu decided to seize the other Forbidden Zones, beginning with Mercyfire, and use Lingyue Pavilion as a scapegoat.

• The Mercyfire Forbidden Zone Master accused the Mist Lord of plotting against the Forbidden Zones and commanded his forces to kill her.
• The Mist Lord spread a Mist Domain that stripped cultivation and vanished into Mist to escape.
• Jiang Fu recognized the Mist Lord as the one-armed Deity whose arm they had seen at the Lingyue Pavilion Research Institute.
• Jiang Fu deduced that Ling Chu had restrained the Mist Lord when the Mist Forbidden Zone appeared, and he and Shi Jiu discussed the rivalries among invading Deities.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu resolved to turn the other Six Human Forbidden Zones into Mist Forbidden Zones and blame Lingyue Pavilion.
• Jiang Fu used Multiply-by-Ten Judgment on the Mercyfire Altar, intending to claim the Forbidden Zone once Mist fully contaminated it.

The Mist Lord was cornered by the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone Master until Xing Jun arrived and revealed an Overlord’s aura. The Master sacrificed everyone in the forbidden zone except himself to summon the God King.

• The Mercyfire Forbidden Zone Master’s ten High Gods attacked the Mist Lord as mercyfire consumed her divine power and soul.
• Xing Jun appeared, rescued the Mist Lord, and declared that they would devour the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone.
• The Mist Lord recognized that the apparent Xing Jun was Youlan and warned that he had broken their agreement, but the Master continued the attack.
• Grayish-white mist erupted from Xing Jun and spread through the forbidden zone’s core, revealing the presence of an Overlord.
• The Mercyfire Forbidden Zone Master ordered a sacrifice to summon the God King, and every living being except him was reduced to an empty husk.

Jiang Fu and his allies awakened the Mercyfire God King Incarnation while the Mist Forbidden Zone’s power spread through the region. The God King’s attempt to flee was thwarted by Jiang Fu’s Taunt Sequence, forcing him to attack despite Jiang Fu’s Evasion Sequence.

• The Mercyfire altar awakened its God King Incarnation, and the Mist Lord feared that the Forbidden Zone could no longer be saved.
• A black-haired Overlord emerged from the mist, while Xing Jun bound the Mist Lord and dragged her away.
• Jiang Fu taunted the God King as a God Lord’s lightning-wreathed Club struck the altar, and the God King recognized Lingyue Pavilion’s role in the invasion.
• The God King’s Mercyfire failed to burn Jiang Fu, so he realized Jiang Fu had a powerful Evasion Sequence and tried to reach the altar’s World Seal.
• Jiang Fu’s Taunt Sequence forced the God King to turn back and attack him despite the danger.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu defeated the God King’s incarnation, claimed the Abyss Altar, and forced the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone Master, Xuanyi, to serve them. They learned that the forbidden zone was a trap for sacrifices and discovered that similar mysterious treasures and a sealed world might lie behind the other Forbidden Zones.

• The God King severed his connection to his incarnation and vanished after Little Blondie’s fused Evasion and Taunt Sequences threatened to make him lose control.
• Shi Jiu retrieved the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone’s World Seal inside a giant altar, and Jiang Fu shrank the altar with the Spatial Sequence.
• The Mercyfire Forbidden Zone Master surrendered to Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, signed a Sequence Contract, and revealed his name was Xuanyi.
• Xuanyi explained that the zone’s treasures had long been harvested, while fake treasures lured people in to be sacrificed to the Mercyfire and the altar.
• Jiang Fu identified the altar as an Abyss Altar and used Multiply-by-Ten Judgment to confirm that the other Human Forbidden Zones held similar treasures.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu determined that the Mist Forbidden Zone was in a Cage World and that another sealed world above the Abyss Furnace might have become a Forbidden Zone if its World Master had not been killed.

Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu discovered how the Abyss Furnace and Abyss Mother Tree shaped world origins, then transformed the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone into the New Mist Forbidden Zone under Xuanyi’s control. Jiang Fu examined a book about the Hell Sequence and confirmed Xuanyi’s warning that it was a trap.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu reasoned that the Abyss Furnace refined the Abyss Mother Tree’s origin and that the tree needed world origin to recover.
• Xuanyi revealed that domain demons had emerged from the Abyss Altar, and Jiang Fu decided to seek Abyss-grade treasures from the other forbidden zones.
• Shi Jiu infused the Mercyfire World Seal with Mist Forbidden Zone power, creating the New Mist Forbidden Zone, and gave its control to Xuanyi.
• Jiang Fu gave Xuanyi a Death-Immunity Gold Medal and asked for texts about the Hell Sequence.
• Xuanyi handed Jiang Fu a black tome and warned that the Hell Sequence legends were a trap; after reading it, Jiang Fu agreed.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu realized they could use the recently slaughtered world above the Abyss to forge hell and help their recovering family. After suppressing the Abyss Altar and leaving Xuanyi in charge of the former Mercyfire Forbidden Zone, they returned to find Mu Qingxue and the other Xia Country experts listening to Mei Youqian and Long Batian.

• Jiang Fu identified the Black Book’s method for forging hell through the deaths and collapsed civilization of an entire world, and he and Shi Jiu recognized the slaughtered world above the Abyss as a possible source.
• Shi Jiu proposed using that world’s deaths to create hell so Grandfather, Grandmother, and Mom could recover, and Jiang Fu agreed.
• Jiang Fu placed the completed Abyss Altar in the True Fire Realm under the Level 210 Ancestral Vein’s suppression.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu left Xuanyi in charge of the former Mercyfire Forbidden Zone and told him to seek President Shen’s help if needed.
• Xuanyi embraced his authority and planned to guard the gate and help the Mist Forbidden Zone’s master.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu returned to find Mu Qingxue and forty-four other Xia Country experts listening to Mei Youqian and Long Batian, and Mu Qingxue congratulated them.

Mu Qingxue and the Snowbeards left the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone after joining the Bearded Pirate Crew, only to learn that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had claimed the transformed New Mist Forbidden Zone as their territory. The revelation that decades of dangerous exploration had yielded little more than junk left Mu Qingxue and the others in tears as they headed back toward human society.

• Mu Qingxue announced that all forty-five Snowbeards had joined the Bearded Pirate Crew and urged the group to leave the desert and settle accounts with Mu Qingshuang.
• Jiang Fu led the group out of the forbidden zone on the Hundred-Ton King while Shi Jiu contacted Granny outside the wall.
• Jiang Fu explained that the Mist Lord's clones had been destroyed and that the New Mist Forbidden Zone belonged to the Bearded Pirate Crew.
• Mu Qingxue and the Snowbeards learned that the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone had become the New Mist Forbidden Zone and that their past treasure finds had been junk from the Heavenfire Great World.
• Mu Qingxue drank Abyss Potion, broke through to level seven, and broke down over the seventy years she felt she had wasted; the other Snowbeards nearly cried too.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu revealed that the treasures from the forbidden zones were discarded junk manipulated to make humanity dependent on them, leaving the forty-five survivors of the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone grieving. Mu Qingxue reunited with her long-forgotten sister Mu Qingshuang and introduced Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu as her younger siblings.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu explained that the Heavenfire Great World had stripped the forbidden zones of their valuable treasures and used discarded junk to shape humanity's development and dependence.
• Mu Qingxue and the other forty-four survivors mourned the sacrifices they had made in the Mercyfire Forbidden Zone.
• Mu Qingshuang arrived with the Crouching Dragon Crew and was shocked to find only forty-five survivors from the thousands Xia Country had sent into the forbidden zone.
• Mu Qingxue recognized Mu Qingshuang, scolded her for forgetting her sister, and learned that Mu Qingshuang had thought she was dead.
• Mu Qingxue dragged Mu Qingshuang to Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu and introduced them as her younger siblings, leaving both crews stunned.

God King Huo Tu planned to reclaim Mercyfire Forbidden Zone and its Altar with Evasion and Taunt items while plotting against Lingyue Pavilion. In Xia Country, Yu Liuli and Yun Yi suspected the Forbidden Zones had used Spirit-Pattern Crystals and a leaked Defense System design to trap them, then learned of a vast Formation built across Skyvault Desert.

• God King Huo Tu decided to hire a Sequence Item forger to make Evasion and Taunt items, recruit a God Lord, and seek revenge on Lingyue Pavilion.
• Mu Qingxue reunited with Mu Qingshuang after seventy years, but the sisters fought, and Mu Qingxue defeated her.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu left to find their Granduncle, deliver the Formation from Skyvault Desert, and then go to Ink Abyss Island.
• Yu Liuli and Yun Yi found more than two hundred Spirit-Pattern Crystals in other countries' bases and worried that the Forbidden Zones had deliberately leaked a Defense System design to sabotage Xia Country.
• Jiang Fu showed Yun Yi the Castle and Raging Sand Fortress, and Shi Jiu explained that 1,024 fortresses formed a Formation covering Skyvault Desert.
• Yun Yi wondered whether the Formation could be expanded to cover Xia Country.

Yun Yi recognized that Lingyue Pavilion’s Formation could provide a model for a Defense System covering all of Xia Country, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu revealed they had captured Mist Lord with a Fate-Playing Doll. As Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu left to pursue their plans, Yun Yi and Yu Liuli took control of Mist Lord and set out to seize the Formation in Skyvault Desert.

• Yun Yi realized the Formation covering Skyvault Desert could inspire a Defense System spanning all of Xia Country.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu revealed that Fate controlled Xing Jun and Mist Lord, and Jiang Fu gave Yun Yi Mist Lord’s Fate-Playing Doll.
• Yun Yi confirmed Mist Lord was a High God and handed her Fate-Playing Doll to Yu Liuli so he could study the Formation.
• Yu Linglong said the Domain Demon Detector had entered mass production, but Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu had already left.
• Yu Liuli and Yun Yi decided to report their suspicions about the Forbidden Zone and use Mist Lord to take over the Formation in Skyvault Desert.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu traveled to Provisional Hell to refine its World Origin and establish Hell, but discovered that God Kings were lying in ambush there. The ambushers were stunned to find that the pair were children.

• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu returned to Ink Abyss Island and confirmed that someone had entered the world they planned to turn into Hell.
• Su Yu relayed the Search Engine’s warning that the people who killed the Four-Extremes God King had gone to that world, and Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu suspected the visitors were bait sent by hidden masterminds.
• Shi Jiu used a Space Mirror to take them to Provisional Hell’s World Origin.
• Several Deities erupted with Divine Might and surrounded Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, then wondered why the pair were children.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entered the Origin Land disguised as helpless children, where eight Overlords and two God Kings mistook them for abandoned scouts. When a God King tried to help them, Shi Jiu knocked her unconscious, and Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu began attacking the remaining deities.

• The eight Overlords and two hidden God Kings watched Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu arrive at the Space Mirror, believing the children had been sent to scout a trap.
• Jiang Fu realized the deities pitied them as cannon fodder and decided to recruit them as schemers in training.
• A rainbow-lit God King lifted Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu toward her and promised not to hurt them.
• Shi Jiu struck the God King eighteen times with the Pink-Bow Sledgehammer, knocking her unconscious.
• The Black God King called for the Ten Directions Divine Gods Formation, but the other deities realized one God King was unconscious while the other was being chased and pummeled by a silver hammer.