Chapter Summaries

Gu Ding’s crew celebrated his sixteenth birthday aboard the Titan Warship after he finished training and strengthened his body. The party brought the crew together through gifts and a meal, and they began planning for Liliath’s birthday next.

• Gu Ding completed his training in Robert’s domain, reaching a permanent four-thousandfold Devil Elephant Realm boost and a temporary forty-thousandfold physical body boost.
• Reed sent Gu Ding a birthday message, and Gu Ding replied, preserving their friendship despite their different positions.
• Gu Ding’s friends surprised him with a birthday party and gifts, including Blue’s vegetable leaf, Bigge’s blade-technique recording, and Sea Emperor’s memories of the crew.
• The crew prepared a birthday meal together, and Bigge served a sixteen-layer cake that everyone finished.
• Liliath announced that her birthday was about a month away, and Sea Emperor offered to remind Bigge to make her a cake.

Gu Ding and his crew accepted Tanya’s invitation to her birthday banquet on Tanya Star, where an arena tournament would be held. Tanya and Kenz prepared for the event, and Kenz vowed to remain by her side forever.

• Gu Ding and his crew discussed Tanya and Kenz’s strength and agreed to attend the birthday banquet on Tanya Star.
• Sea Emperor explained that Tanya invited thousands of Shallow Sea Zone figures and held an arena tournament each year, prompting Gu Ding, Elsa, and Dokter to look forward to competing.
• Kenz cared for Tanya as she grew drowsy, then left her room with her wineglass and spent the night with twenty women.
• Tanya woke alone and learned from Kenz that all the banquet invitations had been sent.
• Tanya said the banquet might not be possible without Kenz, and Kenz vowed to stay by her side forever.

Gu Ding and his team visited Tanya Star’s Giant Stone Arena, where Gu Ding recognized the strength of Demigod Elliot and bet on him to win. After Elliot defeated Bartesby with one finger, he publicly challenged Gu Ding.

• Gu Ding and his team arrived on Tanya Star and went to watch matches at the Giant Stone Arena.
• Gu Ding and Liliath predicted that challenger Bartesby would defeat Bodel, and Bartesby won to become the arena’s reigning champion.
• Gu Ding noticed Demigod challenger Elliot’s powerful aura, and Sea Emperor identified him as a ranked Demigod prodigy and independent mercenary.
• Gu Ding and Liliath bet on Elliot, who defeated Bartesby with a single strike from one finger.
• Elliot called out Gu Ding and challenged him, startling spectators across all twelve arenas.

Gu Ding accepted Elliot’s public challenge at the Giant Stone Arena and defeated him with a single strike, revealing strength that stunned spectators. Elliot warned Gu Ding to leave Tanya Star, while a recording of the fight spread across SkyNet and silenced many of Gu Ding’s doubters.

• Elliot challenged Gu Ding to test whether he deserved second place on the Demigod Prodigy Ranking, and Gu Ding agreed to fight.
• Elliot put on special glasses that transformed his aura and fighting style, while Gu Ding silently activated the Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body and Berserk.
• Gu Ding used a finger strike to shatter Elliot’s attack and send him flying, leaving Elliot severely wounded and out of divine source.
• Elliot conceded defeat, thanked Gu Ding for identifying his lack of Martial Dao Intent, and promised to challenge him again after comprehending it.
• Elliot secretly warned Gu Ding to leave Tanya Star, then disappeared before Gu Ding could ask why.
• Spectators uploaded the fight to SkyNet, where Gu Ding’s decisive victory silenced many who had questioned his ranking.

At Tanya's banquet, Miko deduced that the Federal Government had hired Elliot and other mercenaries to target Tanya's people, with Gu Ding's crew caught as collateral damage. Sea Emperor then reported that Federal Government spacecraft had arrived above the planet, leaving the crew with little time to escape.

• Kenz welcomed Gu Ding's crew at the banquet, and Gu Ding sensed that Kenz was powerful but not hostile.
• Miko reasoned that Elliot's employer was likely the Federal Government, which was targeting Tanya's people to train troops in the Shallow Sea Zone.
• Sea Emperor found that Elliot and other mercenaries had accepted a hidden mission and that their communications were tied to a heavily encrypted number.
• Miko concluded that the Federal Government was behind the mission and that Gu Ding's crew was only collateral damage.
• Sea Emperor warned that spacecraft from the Federal Government's top three factions had arrived above the planet.

At Tanya’s birthday banquet, Kenz discovered TOP3 had arrived with a group of cloaked allies and confronted their leader, Benoco. Kenz trapped TOP3 in his Prison Cage Domain, but a watcher aboard their ship revealed that the operation had been planned around his power.

• Tanya appeared at the banquet and gave a speech while Kenz watched over her.
• Liliath pointed out to Gu Ding that Kenz seemed to love Tanya, and Kenz later danced with her before noticing ships from the Federal Government at the harbor.
• Kenz left the banquet in the care of a trusted crew member and went to confront TOP3 and the cloaked figures blocking the harbor.
• Benoco identified himself as TOP3’s leader and surrounded Kenz with the other eight members of TOP3.
• Kenz trapped the nine TOP3 members in his Prison Cage Domain, weakening their Combat Strength to one-tenth.
• A young man aboard TOP3’s ship watched the confrontation and said he had accounted for Kenz’s domain in the operation.

Gu Ding’s group uncovered the Federal Government’s surveillance and secretly took control of its thirty-two Artificial Humans. Meanwhile, Reed’s top3 crew neutralized Kenz’s weakening domain with Purification Potions and launched an attack, leaving Kenz sensing danger behind him.

• Sea Emperor detected top3’s surveillance and explained that Reed was leading the Federal Government’s operation against the pirates at the banquet.
• Robert and Sea Emperor removed the Artificial Humans’ chip protections, allowing Robert to seize control of all thirty-two and conceal the changes.
• Benoco revealed that Reed had predicted Kenz’s domain weakened opponents, and top3 used Purification Potions to restore their strength.
• Kenz attacked top3 despite losing his domain’s advantage, while the nine members launched their strongest attacks against him.
• Kenz tore free of a tentacle and repelled the incoming attacks with golden divine source, then sensed a threat behind him.

Kenz slaughtered most of top 3 by absorbing the life force of the dead in his domain and using it to recover from their attacks. After Kenz pierced Benoco’s chest, Benoco rose again with scarlet eyes and appeared directly in front of him.

• Kenz killed three top 3 members in quick succession, then revealed that his domain absorbed the dead’s life force to restore him.
• Benoco, Dishia, and Ulred coordinated against Kenz, using divine fire, black tentacles, and lightning speed to restrain and attack him.
• Kenz repeatedly recovered from Benoco’s divine fire and eventually pierced Benoco’s chest, leaving Dishia and Ulred exposed.
• Kenz turned to strike Dishia, but sensed danger and saw Benoco stand again with scarlet eyes and dazzling Red Radiance.
• Benoco vanished and reappeared directly in front of Kenz.

Benoco killed Kenz after exhausting his domain’s life force, and Kenz died remembering his long, unspoken love for Tanya. With Benoco unable to fight, Dishia and Ulred led Artificial Humans toward the banquet venue, where Gu Ding’s group prepared to help the guests escape.

• Benoco killed Kenz through eight revivals, and Kenz died during his ninth, recalling his history with Tanya and regretting that he had never told her he loved her.
• Kenz’s domain collapsed, and Benoco told Dishia and Ulred to continue the operation while he recovered from severe depletion.
• Reed ordered Dishia and Ulred to take the Artificial Humans to the banquet and capture those they could, while Benoco returned to the ship.
• Sea Emperor told Gu Ding’s group that Kenz had fallen and Benoco would be unable to fight for at least three hours; Tanya learned of Kenz’s death and realized she loved him.
• Sea Emperor instructed the group to discreetly let banquet guests escape by having the Artificial Humans hold back, and suggested killing Dishia and Ulred if necessary.
• Dishia and Ulred arrived at the banquet with the Artificial Humans and announced that members of several groups could leave.

Tanya awakened her Revenge Empress bloodline after Kenz’s death, killed Ulred, Dishia, and the Artificial Humans, and vowed to destroy the Federal Government’s top organization. Reed escaped with Benoco, while Tanya renamed Tanya Star as Kenz Star and prepared to lead the Revenge Pirate Crew into the Deep Sea Zone.

• Tanya declared that the Beauty Pirate Crew would become the Revenge Pirate Crew and swore vengeance for Kenz and their fallen comrades.
• Tanya awakened her bloodline, rose to One-Star Peak-rank God, and used her silver-white hair to kill Ulred and Dishia.
• Tanya destroyed Reed’s thirty-two Artificial Humans and pursued his spaceship, but Gu Ding and Sea Emperor used the port’s cannons to help Reed escape with Benoco.
• Reed identified Tanya as a descendant of the Ancient Era Revenge Empress clan, whose bloodline grew stronger through vengeance, while Benoco doubted she could threaten top4.
• Tanya returned to the banquet, renamed Tanya Star as Kenz Star, announced Kenz’s funeral, and said the Revenge Pirate Crew would leave for the Deep Sea Zone after it.

Gu Ding attended Kenz’s funeral, where Tanya gave him Kenz’s godhood and revealed it contained part of a True God’s inheritance. At Federal Government headquarters, Reed was suspended as strategy officer because he stood by equal justice for everyone, including Gu Ding.

• Gu Ding and his team attended Kenz’s funeral, where Tanya, Kenz’s butler, and the Revenge Pirate Crew paid their respects.
• Gu Ding offered Kenz a Purple Datura and praised his courage, prompting Tanya to tell him Kenz had believed he would go far.
• Tanya gave Gu Ding Kenz’s godhood, revealing that Kenz had gained part of a True God’s inheritance from an Ancient Ruin.
• Federal Government higher-ups questioned Reed about the failed mission and whether he would favor Gu Ding, who had saved his life.
• Reed declared that justice required equal treatment under the law, and Balin announced his temporary suspension and the revocation of his military and information-access authority.
• Benoco offered to share Reed’s punishment, but Reed explained that he had been suspended because the higher-ups rejected his beliefs.

After refining Kenz’s godhead, Gu Ding learned the Asura World Extinction technique and spent months mastering its introductory chapter and advancing his Martial Dao Intent. He left seclusion with his intent at major completion of the Entrance to the Microscopic Realm, and the team set course for Gold Silver Island to find ways to strengthen his body.

• Gu Ding used his Fated Divine Power to refine Kenz’s godhead in under an hour and obtained the complete memories and inheritance within it.
• Gu Ding discovered that Kenz had obtained only the introductory chapter of the Asura Inheritance, whose four demanding requirements he himself met.
• Gu Ding studied a demonstration of Asura World Extinction and realized the technique fused the body, soul, divine source, and Martial Dao Intent to maximize Combat Strength.
• Gu Ding practiced the introductory chapter for three months, then spent nearly two months in virtual battles and advanced his Martial Dao Intent to major completion of the Entrance to the Microscopic Realm.
• Gu Ding told Bigge that he wanted to strengthen his Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body before advancing to the God level, and Sea Emperor set the ship’s course for Gold Silver Island.

Gu Ding and his crew arrived at Gold Silver Island, a strange wandering continent protected from dangerous celestial bodies and governed jointly by human factions. After learning about its powerful residents, strict rules, and vast trading markets, Gu Ding planned to rest briefly and then search for useful items.

• Gu Ding asked Sea Emperor about Gold Silver Island’s origins, and Sea Emperor said he favored the Higher Plane Origin Theory.
• Sea Emperor warned Gu Ding that Demigod Prodigies were eager to challenge him after he took first place in the rankings, while the crew continued cultivating toward the requirements for Asura World Extinction.
• Sea Emperor landed the spaceship at one of Gold Silver Island’s thirty-six Interstellar Ports, and the crew checked into a hotel to rest for two or three days.
• Sea Emperor explained that the island was jointly managed by human factions, prohibited private fighting, and generally rejected Federal Government arrest requests.
• After hearing that the island’s three trading markets offered most goods in the human Universe Sea, Gu Ding proposed that the crew go shopping for useful items.

Gu Ding and Sea Emperor searched Number Three Trading Zone for bargains and bought a fractured inheritance crystal and an unusual blade. Sea Emperor identified the crystal as a highly complete Eight-Star Half-Step True God inheritance, while the blade’s strange quality remained unexplained.

• Gu Ding split up from his companions and followed Sea Emperor to stalls flagged as potential bargains.
• Gu Ding negotiated with a Peak-rank God and bought a fractured Inheritance Crystal for eight hundred million Origin Stones.
• Sea Emperor identified the crystal as an over eighty-percent-complete Eight-Star Half-Step True God inheritance and began sorting its contents.
• At a second stall, Gu Ding traded a Three-Star Divine Object suit of armor for a One-Star Divine Object blade that Sea Emperor had briefly sensed was unusual.
• Gu Ding left the other Divine Objects behind and hurried toward the next stall.

Liliath used a tearful performance to expose a stall owner's price gouging and bought Blue's prized Gray Star Rock at a fair price. Meanwhile, Robert found gloves made by someone from his people and revealed they could become a powerful Gun Armament for Lily.

• Blue smelled a Gray Star Rock from more than ten kilometers away and insisted that Liliath and Elsa buy it.
• The stall owner raised the boulder's price to ten billion Universe Crystals, but Liliath's public complaint drew the crowd's condemnation and forced him to hand it over.
• Liliath paid the stall owner one and a half billion Universe Crystals and asked the crowd to stop blaming him.
• Robert recognized a pair of gloves at a stall as something made by one of his people, and Dokter bought them for fifty billion Universe Crystals.
• Robert explained that the gloves could transform into a Five-Star-level Gun Armament that Lily could use.

Tagore revealed that he had secretly reached Four-Star Low-rank God level and helped the Gu Ding Team defeat the Copper Fist Mercenary Group’s attackers. Gu Ding captured commander Xiao Te alive and demanded ransom, leaving Tuo Er facing the crew’s terms.

• Tagore fought three Three-Star Gods without transforming, while Tuo Er learned he was part of the rising Gu Ding Pirate Crew and ordered his ships to attack them.
• Gu Ding told Tagore to end the fight and capture the commander, so Tagore transformed into a giant beast, swallowed one attacker, and retreated when Tuo Er launched a powerful frost attack.
• Tuo Er’s attacks failed to breach the Titan Warship’s protective barrier, and he withdrew with Yi Deng and Ba Ke Man.
• Gu Ding showed Tuo Er that Xiao Te was alive, then used his Sealing Taboo Ability to seal Xiao Te’s powers.
• Tuo Er offered to abandon the mission in exchange for Xiao Te, but Gu Ding demanded that the Copper Fist Mercenary Group pay ransom.

Gu Ding's crew welcomed Fa Te's interest in joining but urged him to return to his family and reconsider. After a mutated Gold-type Devouring Beast hatched and several crew members emerged stronger from Robert's domain, Gu Ding announced that the team would enter the Universe Sea the next day.

• Gu Ding advised Fa Te to return to his family and decide later whether he still wanted to become an Interstellar Pirate, then answered his questions about the team's adventures.
• The Gold-type Devouring Beast egg hatched into a golden mutated beast, and Fa Te accepted that he had lost his bet with Gu Ding.
• The old man declined the two million Origin Stones and ended his call after seeing the newborn beast.
• Bigge and Liliath emerged from Robert's domain after reaching new levels of strength, while Tagore and Dokter remained inside.
• Gu Ding announced that the crew would leave the Reverse Dragon River Channel and enter the Universe Sea the next day.

After the Federal Government assigned OP1 regular members to intercept the Gu Ding Team, Reed warned the arrogant youths that they were outmatched. Gu Ding remained focused on cultivating as his team traveled toward Norman Star, where the coming confrontation might take place.

• The Federal Government classified wanted criminals by rank and chose to send OP1 regular members after the Gu Ding Team, with Reed tasked to predict their route.
• The Gu Ding Team continued cultivating after learning about their increased bounties and the near destruction of Koude.Brad's Judicator Pirate Crew; Tagore cared for Blue aboard the ship.
• Reed predicted the team would likely stop in Abigail's Freedom Alliance territory and warned the OP1 youths that the Gu Ding Team was far stronger than they were.
• Kass worried that the Gu Ding Team had grown even stronger since their previous encounter, but the leading youth dismissed her concerns.
• Gu Ding asked Sea Emperor about their destination and learned that the Titan Warship would reach Norman Star in four days.

Kass confronted Gu Ding’s crew after rising to a Five-Star Low-rank God and becoming a top1 regular member. When Biggins ordered his team to attack, Dokter stepped forward to fight all nine of top1’s regular members alone.

• Kass had challenged the person originally ranked Chapter 447 among the top1 regular seats after advancing to a Five-Star Low-rank God.
• Mi Xue prepared to pull Miko away, but Miko refused to leave the Gu Ding Pirate Crew, and Gu Ding assured them they would protect him.
• Biggins displayed his badge and ordered his nine companions to attack Gu Ding’s group.
• Dokter repelled all nine attackers with his throwing knives and told Gu Ding he would handle the battle.
• Dokter declared he would fight all nine top1 regular members alone, enraging Biggins and his team.

Kenz used his domain’s ability to absorb the life force of the dead to withstand Benoco’s attacks and slaughtered most of the top three. After Benoco seemed defeated, he rose again with blood-red eyes and vanished, appearing directly before Kenz.

• Kenz killed six of the top three while surviving Benoco’s attacks and freezing flames by restoring his life force from the dead.
• Kenz explained that his domain replenished his body with the life force of anyone who died inside it, and Benoco, Dishia, and Ulred tried to counter him together.
• Kenz overwhelmed Benoco in their prolonged fight and pierced his chest, leaving Dishia and Ulred exposed.
• Kenz turned to strike Dishia, but sensed danger and saw Benoco stand again with scarlet eyes before suddenly appearing in front of him.