Chapter Summaries

Gu Ding and his team found valuable treasures in the Number Three Trading Zone, including an illusionist’s inheritance, a True God’s scabbard, and Gun Armament for Liliath. They planned to search the Number Two Trading Zone for materials to help Robert advance, while Miko, Tagore, and Blue stayed at the hotel.

• Gu Ding and his team spent the day buying rare treasures, including an Eight-Star Half-Step True God Realm inheritance and Fallen Heart Divine Iron.
• Back at the hotel, Bigge identified the long blade’s scabbard as a slumbering spiritual object that held memories of True God-level battles.
• Gu Ding gave Liliath the illusionist’s inheritance, and Robert presented her with Mechanical Race Gun Armament that could attack across an entire major realm.
• Robert selected Fallen Heart Divine Iron, Quicksand Gold, and Violet Crow Copper from the group’s collected ores and absorbed them.
• Gu Ding arranged for the team to search the Number Two Trading Zone for Robert’s advancement materials, while Tagore agreed to remain at the hotel with Miko and Blue.

Gu Ding and his crew bought materials for Robert’s needs at Gold Silver Island while Sea Emperor coordinated their purchases. Gu Ding also noticed someone watching him, as news spread about a Demigod’s deadly challenge to a High-rank God.

• Sea Emperor found 122 of the 128 materials on Robert’s list and directed the crew to buy them across the trading zone.
• When sellers lacked enough stock, Sea Emperor told the crew to buy what they could and keep moving while he tracked shortages for a second round.
• Sea Emperor warned Gu Ding that someone was watching him, but Gu Ding told the team to continue shopping.
• People across the trading zone discussed and doubted the announced fight between a Demigod and a High-rank God.
• Liliath suspected Gu Ding was the Demigod behind the challenge, and Gu Ding told his crew he had a small problem to handle.

Gu Ding entered a deathmatch with Sinister and killed him in a single devastating attack, revealing strength on the level of a Five-Star High-rank God. He resumed buying materials for Robert while footage of the fight spread across the Universe Sea, drawing attention to Gu Ding and raising fears of a stronger Federal Government pursuit.

• Gu Ding and Sinister signed a life-and-death contract, and arena manager Pigge bet one hundred million Origin Stones on Gu Ding.
• Gu Ding overwhelmed Sinister with his Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body and Asura World Extinction, then destroyed him and took his short blade and Smart Watch.
• The spectators recognized Gu Ding as the fighter ranked first on the Demigod Prodigy Ranking, while Pigge explained that he had bet on Gu Ding by instinct.
• Gu Ding hurried back to buying materials for Robert, unaware that recordings of the fight had spread across SkyNet and gained over one billion views.
• A blond youth at the Federal Government Headquarters watched the footage and worried that the Federal Government would increase Gu Ding's bounty and send stronger pursuers.

Gu Ding’s group searched Gold Silver Island for materials Robert needed and bought potions and refining supplies before leaving to seek the remaining ingredients elsewhere. Fa Te agreed to source the last materials, but after ending the call he privately accepted that family responsibilities kept him from joining Gu Ding’s crew.

• Gu Ding’s team bought most of Robert’s required materials and several divine objects in the Number Two Trading Zone, then spent two days searching the Number One Trading Zone for potions and ingredients.
• Sea Emperor explained the rarity and cost of god-level potions, and Gu Ding bought Second-Class Body Enhancement Potions and materials to make God Source Replenishment Potions.
• Sea Emperor found two more materials for Robert, but the team still lacked seven types and left Gold Silver Island.
• Fa Te called Gu Ding after seeing his viral battle video, then agreed to arrange the remaining materials Robert needed.
• After the call, Fa Te cried and reflected that he wanted freedom but had to support his family, so he could not join Gu Ding’s crew.

Gu Ding endured eighteen days of enhancement to raise his physical strength to the limit of a Seven-Star Low-rank God, while his bounty rose to 30 million source stones and put his crew at risk of stronger Federal hunters. The crew learned that Fa Te’s family might be in crisis, and they reached Re Tuo Star just as a Gates Family ship was surrounded by mercenaries.

• Gu Ding injected ten Second-Class Body Enhancement Potions and endured eighteen days of pain as his physical strength rose to the limit of a Seven-Star Low-rank God.
• Sea Emperor revealed that Gu Ding’s bounty had risen to 30 million source stones, upgrading the crew to A-rank wanted criminals and making stronger hunters a threat.
• Sea Emperor said Fa Te had secured Robert’s materials, which would arrive on Re Tuo Star in about three days.
• Sea Emperor reported rumors that Stephen Gates and his wife were critically ill or dead, while Fa Te managed the Gates Family’s major projects alone.
• Gu Ding tried to contact Fa Te several times, but Fa Te did not answer or reply to the crew’s messages.
• Gu Ding and his crew reached Re Tuo Star, where a Gates Family spaceship was surrounded by more than ten mercenary ships.

A Ge Si delivered Fa Te’s materials to the Gu Ding Pirate Crew after an attack by mercenaries targeting the Gates Family was mysteriously stopped. Gu Ding urged Fa Te to explain the family’s crisis and accept their help, and Fa Te began to cry as the chapter ended.

• A Ge Si warned the mercenary commander that attacking a Gates Family ship would bring retaliation, but the commander revealed that the Koch Family had hired them and ordered the fleet to fire.
• The mercenaries’ weapons failed, and their twelve ships exploded one after another before A Ge Si could fire; an unknown young voice told him to continue to Re Tuo Star.
• Gu Ding and the others realized Sea Emperor had intervened to save A Ge Si, then met him at Re Tuo Star and confirmed that Fa Te’s materials had arrived.
• A Ge Si refused to discuss the Gates Family’s crisis until Miko persuaded him to call Fa Te, who answered and said he would handle the trouble himself.
• Gu Ding reminded Fa Te that partners supported each other through hardship and offered to help the Gates Family, prompting Fa Te to sob over the communicator.

Gu Ding and his team learned that the Gates Family’s elders had been poisoned and traveled to Gates Star to help Fa Te. On the way, Robert advanced to High-rank God, while Gu Ding resumed potion training; the team arrived at the Gates Family estate ready to investigate.

• Fa Te told Gu Ding and the others that a chronic toxin had left his parents and the Gates Family elders comatose, forcing him to manage the family’s projects alone.
• Sea Emperor said the Koch Family was involved in the crisis and suspected the Filler Family had also helped pressure the Gates Family.
• Robert broke through to High-rank God, took on a human female appearance, and revealed her enhanced abilities and combat strength.
• Liliath and the others entered Robert’s domain to cultivate, while Gu Ding practiced refining A-Rank and S-Rank potions in Medicine King Valley’s virtual system.
• Gu Ding mastered nineteen S-Rank potions during the two-day journey, and the team landed on Gates Star and flew toward the Gates Family estate.

Gu Ding and Dokter investigated the Gates Family’s poisoned members and learned that they were suffering from an ancient soul toxin called Black Spirit Blood. Sea Emperor proposed using Liliath’s Purgatory Fire to purge it through a powerful expert, and Everett volunteered to act as the dangerous intermediary.

• Everett led Gu Ding and his companions through the Gates Family’s spiritual-artifact tower, where Sea Emperor revealed that the butler was a Nine-and-a-Half Star Half-Step True God.
• Gu Ding and Dokter examined the twelve blackened patients and collected blood samples for testing.
• Sea Emperor identified the poison as Black Spirit Blood, a chronic soul toxin whose victims usually died within three months, and said the standard antidote required ingredients that had gone extinct.
• Sea Emperor suggested channeling Liliath’s Purgatory Fire through a powerful expert to burn away the toxin, but warned that the method could damage the intermediary’s soul.
• Fa Te hesitated to risk Everett’s life, but Everett heard the plan and volunteered to serve as the intermediary.

Everett risked his soul and his impending True God Tribulation to help Gu Ding and Liliath cure the Gates Family members poisoned by the Koch Family. After Sea Emperor cured the victims, he uncovered and disabled a former designer’s backdoor into the family’s project data, though the story left uncertain whether the Koch Family had already obtained the files.

• Everett volunteered to guide Purgatory Fire through his soul to detoxify the Gates Family members, despite the danger to his upcoming True God Tribulation.
• Gu Ding brought Liliath, Robert, Everett, and Fa Te into Robert’s time-accelerated domain, where Liliath supplied the flames and Everett directed them through the poisoned patients.
• After Liliath recovered between treatments, she and Everett cleared the poison from all twelve patients, and Fa Te’s parents woke safely.
• Stephen said the Koch Family had poisoned them and explained that a former chief designer had stolen decades of project data using a backdoor in the family’s mainframe.
• Gu Ding offered to help, and Sea Emperor used the recovered mainframe to locate and erase the stolen files, replace them with difficult-to-crack fakes, and install surveillance on the designer.
• Sea Emperor wondered whether the Koch Family had already obtained the project files.

Sea Emperor uncovered the Koch and Filler Families’ secrets, erased the stolen Gates Family data, and secured a fortune that helped the Gates Family defeat the rival families. As Gu Ding’s team prepared to leave Gates Star, Fa Te asked to join them, and Stephen agreed to let him go under conditions.

• Sea Emperor traced the stolen files to codebreakers working for the Koch and Filler Families, then replaced their data and secretly monitored their devices.
• Sea Emperor stole money from accounts belonging to Conrad Filler and Cecil Koch and gave Gu Ding information that helped the Gates Family win several major projects.
• The Filler and Koch Families backed down after their codebreakers uncovered compromising videos of Conrad and Cecil, resolving the Gates Family’s crisis.
• Fa Te asked Stephen for permission to leave Gates Star with Gu Ding’s team, and Stephen reluctantly agreed after Fa Te’s mother urged him to let their son choose his own path.
• Stephen said Fa Te could leave, but imposed conditions.

Fa Te joined the Gu Ding Pirate Crew after agreeing to be cut off from the Gates Family’s support, and Gu Ding made him the crew’s financial manager. The crew trained for several days while Gu Ding took the S-Rank Pharmacist assessment and completed all three potion trials with Perfect Quality, leaving his certification result pending.

• Fa Te told Gu Ding and Robert that he had officially joined the crew, then received cultivation techniques and three life-saving talismans from Everett.
• Fa Te revealed that Stephen had removed him from the Gates Family and that he had frozen his accounts, so Gu Ding appointed him financial manager of the crew’s wealth.
• The crew members spent several days cultivating, while Robert worked on new equipment and Fa Te studied Everett’s techniques.
• Gu Ding entered the virtual world’s Pharmacist assessment and passed the soul-strength and soul-control trials with ease.
• Gu Ding refined all three randomly selected assessment potions to Perfect Quality, astonishing the other candidates.

After earning an excellent S-Rank Pharmacist assessment, Gu Ding used his privileges to collect divine potion materials and brew in a private room. His potions repeatedly reached Ultimate Quality but not Perfect Quality, drawing the attention of Medicine King Valley experts and Potion Venerable’s teacher.

• Gu Ding collected three portions of materials for each of the thirty-six standard first-grade divine potions and entered a free private brewing room.
• Gu Ding brewed a First Class Body Strengthening Potion twice, but both attempts produced Ultimate Quality rather than Perfect Quality.
• Gu Ding brewed two God Source Replenishment Potions and two more potions, and all six results were Ultimate Quality.
• Medicine King Valley monitors noticed Gu Ding’s precise brewing, and his video was posted in the valley’s video section.
• A short, plump old man watched Gu Ding’s video and called Potion Venerable, asking him to investigate Gu Ding and identify his teacher.
• Potion Venerable watched the video, then told his waiting purple-robed guest he would brew the requested pill once the guest had gathered the materials.

Gu Ding completed his Second-Class God Pharmacist assessment and used his new status to make potions for his team. While Medicine King Valley’s leaders waited to see whether Medicine Ancestor would claim Gu Ding as a disciple, the team grew much stronger during their training in Robert’s domain.

• Gu Ding completed thirty-six god-level potions, prompting Medicine King Valley’s senior pharmacists to agree not to pursue him as a disciple until Medicine Ancestor made his decision.
• Gu Ding earned his First-Class God Pharmacist badge, made forty-one Second-Class God potions, and passed the assessment to become a Second-Class God Pharmacist.
• Gu Ding left Medicine King Valley and used ingredients from Gold Silver Island to mass-produce potions for his teammates in Robert’s domain.
• Bigge, Liliath, Dokter, Elsa, Miko, and Fa Te improved their abilities through training, while Robert prepared equipment for the team.
• Gu Ding’s team gained enough cultivation, combat strength, and equipment for nearly everyone to rise by an entire tier in Combat Strength.

While Gu Ding and his crew relaxed on Frie Star, Sea Emperor explained that a newly discovered Ancient Battlefield ruin had drawn the Darkness Clan into negotiations with humanity. The two sides agreed to send demigod juniors into the ruin, and the Federal Government announced a competition to choose humanity’s entrants.

• Gu Ding and his crew enjoyed a peaceful day on Frie Star, and Sea Emperor told them that the Federal Government was negotiating with the Darkness Clan over a newly discovered ruin near the Dark Race.
• Abel and Night God debated control of the ruin, and Abel agreed to let the Darkness Clan share it in exchange for keeping its existence secret from other races.
• Night God revealed that the ruin was likely a fragment of an Ancient Battlefield and proposed sending demigod juniors through a small space passage to explore it.
• Abel and Night God agreed that each race would send one thousand entrants and that neither side would pursue disputes over what happened inside.
• The Federal Government announced a virtual-network hunting game, inviting demigod powerhouses to register within three days and promising the top one thousand a mysterious reward.

Gu Ding and his team registered for the Federal Government’s virtual Hunting Game, suspecting it was connected to a powerful ruin and hoping to test their strength. The game began in a deadly volcanic region, where players learned they had to survive five escalating rounds and earn points by hunting creatures or other contestants.

• Gu Ding and his team debated whether the Federal Government’s mysterious invitation was a trap or a chance to enter the ruin, then decided to participate.
• Gu Ding invited Miko and Fa Te to join, while Bigge, Robert, and Tagore were excluded because their cultivation exceeded the limit.
• Gu Ding’s group registered among more than eight hundred thousand contestants and spent three days training in Robert’s domain without breaking through to God level.
• The game began with more than fifteen million registered players divided among five dangerous regions, and its rules explained that contestants would earn survival and hunting points over twenty-five days.
• Gu Ding appeared in the Flame Zone as the game’s announcer warned that environmental attacks would grow stronger each round and that contestants could kill one another to steal points.

Gu Ding raced through the trial zones, using his azure Destruction Flame to climb to first place and reach increasingly powerful God-level regions. As his points rose into the range earned from killing Five-Star High-rank Gods, observers wondered whether he would enter the Peak-rank God Region.

• Sea Emperor told Gu Ding that Fa Te and Miko were struggling in the Boulder Zone, while Liliath, Dokter, and Elsa were managing their own zones.
• Gu Ding charged through the Flame Zone, destroying virtual creatures with his Destruction Flame and quickly taking first place on the Ranking List.
• Liliath changed jackets before setting out, while Dokter and Elsa hunted creatures and climbed the rankings; Fa Te and Miko struggled to stand under the Boulder Zone’s gravity.
• Futu ran through the Boulder Zone without fighting, heading straight for the Peak-rank God Region, while Shi Jia finally annihilated a group of virtual lightning creatures with a golden giant hand.
• Gu Ding entered the High-rank God region and continued deeper, with his score jumps showing that he was reaching areas populated by stronger High-rank Gods.
• As Gu Ding’s points began increasing by five hundred at a time, observers wondered whether he would enter the Peak-rank God Region.

Gu Ding entered the Peak-rank God Region and began fighting its colossal creatures, then pushed deeper to challenge a Two-Star Peak-rank Golden Skeleton without using his Berserk ability. As the Ranking List shifted, Liliath climbed to third place while Fa Te and Miko adjusted to the Boulder Zone; Gu Ding’s duel with the skeleton remained unresolved.

• Gu Ding killed a Lava Giant with a second, crushing stomp and gained 1,000 Ranking List points, then raced toward another creature.
• Fa Te adapted to the Boulder Zone’s gravity while Miko managed only to walk, and the demigods’ hunting efforts began closing Gu Ding’s early points lead.
• Liliath’s Purgatory Fire rapidly raised her to third place, while Scarlet ranked fourth, Dokter fifth, Elsa sixth, and Floatu remained outside the top thousand.
• Gu Ding fought through the One-Star Peak-rank God area, then entered the Two-Star Peak-rank God area to face a fast, flame-wreathed Golden Skeleton.
• Gu Ding dodged the skeleton’s attack and countered with Finger Force and heavy punches, but the skeleton survived with only a crack in its arm.

Gu Ding pushed through the higher-star Peak-rank God regions, using Berserk to survive a deadly encounter and then defeating stronger enemies with ease. He entered the Five-Star region, where Sea Emperor explained that the golden birds on the Sun Giant Tree were juvenile Luo Yu and pointed out a tablet saying only one would attack him at a time.

• Gu Ding’s points rose steadily as he hunted more than thirty Two-Star Peak-rank God creatures, and he left for the Three-Star region.
• A Crimson Fire Spirit Python nearly killed Gu Ding with one blow, so he activated Berserk, killed it, and healed himself with a potion.
• Gu Ding rushed through the Three-Star and Four-Star regions, killing Crimson Fire Spirit Pythons and Purple Flame Spirit Cats as his point gains shocked the other competitors.
• Karrot and Scarlet reacted to Gu Ding’s sudden strength, while Fa Te decided to head to the Mid-rank God Region and Miko continued fighting with Sea Emperor’s guidance.
• Gu Ding entered the Five-Star region and found a giant golden tree covered in juvenile Luo Yu; Sea Emperor explained their strength and showed him a tablet stating that only one Luo Yu would attack at a time.

Gu Ding studied the Sun Giant Tree’s challenge rules and began fighting the first five-star Peak-rank Luo Yu Beast while Sea Emperor investigated the True God-level inheritance’s restriction. Gu Ding dodged the beast’s devastating fire attack and prepared to face the powerful opponent.

• Gu Ding read that the 108 steps summoned increasingly numerous and powerful Luo Yu Beasts, and that a True God inheritance lay beyond the final step.
• Sea Emperor explained that Gu Ding could use his domain but would need an inheritor’s recognition to receive the inheritance, then began analyzing the virtual restriction.
• Gu Ding stepped onto the first level and waited one minute for a golden, 150-meter-winged infant Luo Yu Beast to appear.
• Gu Ding and Sea Emperor discussed the beast’s immense size before Gu Ding entered battle mode against it.
• The Luo Yu Beast fired a spiraling pillar of flame, and Gu Ding dodged as the blast carved a burning abyss where he had stood.

Gu Ding defeated the five-star Peak-rank Luo Yu Beast by using Heaven Burning and a newly unlocked flame seal, then returned to the First Level to continue training. His kill drew widespread attention, but he remained unconcerned with his falling ranking.

• Gu Ding attacked the Luo Yu Beast, dodged its Myriad Melting Flame, and was badly burned when he tried to lure it closer.
• Sea Emperor urged Gu Ding to use Heaven Burning, which let him withstand the beast’s flames without losing strength.
• The Luo Yu Beast began using its Myriad innate divine power, so Gu Ding formed the Heaven Burning Seal and summoned a giant flaming palm.
• Gu Ding’s palm annihilated the Luo Yu Beast and suppressed its expanding dust attack, earning him 5,000 points.
• Gu Ding ignored the attention and rankings, adjusted himself, and stepped onto the first tier of the Flame Zone again without activating Heaven Burning’s flame form.