Chapter Summaries

Gu Ding fled the Sea of Grievances with hundreds of resentful spirits, including two Platinum Level ones, pursuing him. After the spirits invaded his Soul Space, the little black dog transformed into a colossal beast, destroyed them, and returned to Gu Ding carrying a black sphere.

• Gu Ding escaped the lake, but two Platinum Level resentful spirits and hundreds of others chased him into the sky.
• Gu Ding refused to lead the pursuers to Boyi and headed toward a nearby mystic realm, while Boyi followed at a distance.
• One Platinum resentful spirit caught Gu Ding with a weakening chain, and the spirits decided to possess his body and entered it as he lost consciousness.
• Inside Gu Ding's Soul Space, the little black dog grew into a colossal beast and crushed all the invading resentful spirits into soul particles.
• The beast gathered the remaining particles into a black sphere, then returned to puppy form and placed it at Gu Ding's feet.

Gu Ding devoured a powerful Black Sphere and raised his soul strength to two-star High-rank God, bringing his combat ability up to Ye Mei’s level. After taking the Dark Race’s Storage Spaces and directing the Human Race to the lake’s remaining Soul Pearls, he reunited with his crew, who had collected all the Soul Crystals, and learned that Sea Emperor had found sword-path resentful spirits for Scarlet.

• Gu Ding ate the Black Sphere, absorbed its soul energy, and advanced his soul strength to two-star High-rank God.
• Gu Ding told Sea Emperor to have Liliath and the others collect the Soul Crystals, then returned to the lake.
• Gu Ding stripped the eleven Dark Race members of their temporary Storage Spaces without killing them and told the Human Race group that the lake was safe enough to search for Soul Pearls.
• Liliath and the others emerged with all the Soul Crystals, and Gu Ding explained how he had absorbed the resentful spirits and reached combat strength comparable to Ye Mei.
• Scarlet said she needed another sword soul, and Sea Emperor reported that he had found several sword-path resentful spirits and asked what level she could absorb.

Scarlet sought a powerful sword soul in a canyon, while Liliath explained the God-level prodigy rankings to Gu Ding and the others. Scarlet absorbed a Three-Star Half-Step True God resentful spirit and gained its inheritance, raising his ranking from eighteenth to second on the Black Iron Prodigy Ranking.

• Liliath explained the five God-level prodigy rankings and estimated that Gu Ding and the others could place among the Black Iron Ranking's top fifty.
• Sea Emperor led the group to a canyon containing a Three-Star Half-Step True God resentful spirit with a strong Sword Dao Domain.
• Liliath killed most of the canyon's more than two hundred thousand resentful spirits as the group advanced toward the canyon's depths.
• Scarlet faced the enormous resentful spirit, absorbed it into his Soul Space, and converted it into a sword soul after obtaining its inheritance.
• Scarlet returned to his body with greatly improved Combat Strength, and his Black Iron Prodigy Ranking rose from eighteenth place to second.

Sea Emperor explained the True God Remains, the hierarchy of True God cultivation, and the brutal history of the Ancient Battlefield as the group traveled toward their next destination. He warned that humanity risked losing its first-rate status and becoming a slave race, but Gu Ding and his crew vowed to grow strong enough to defend humanity.

• Sea Emperor told Gu Ding and the others that their destination lay inside the intact body of a First Sequence perfection True God, and explained how True Gods could die and how their cultivation ranks were divided.
• Sea Emperor revealed that the ruins were only a fragment of a low-level Ancient Battlefield where more than eight hundred million lifeforms had died.
• Sea Emperor warned that the Human Race Camp sat at the bottom of the first-rate races and could face enslavement or extinction if it fell into the second-rate ranks.
• Gu Ding vowed that his generation would protect humanity and carry their pirate ship into the Great Universe Sea, and Elsa and the others backed him.
• Sea Emperor privately thought that Gu Ding and his crew might help humanity turn its fortunes around.

Gu Ding and his companions reached the enormous crystallized remains of a True God but found the entrance blocked by a barrier that their strongest attacks could not break. Miko emerged from seclusion with greatly increased cultivation and soul strength, and prepared to test his Barrier Art against it.

• Gu Ding and his companions arrived at the True God Remains, and Sea Emperor explained that the crystallized corpse was too dense and tough for them to take or refine.
• The group found a transparent barrier sealing the True God's mouth, and Elsa's powerful axe strike failed to break it.
• Scarlet attacked the barrier with his strongest sword technique, but its ripples absorbed his attack and the rebound sent him flying.
• Gu Ding tried to summon Demon Face but found the little black dog asleep in his Soul Space, so Sea Emperor suggested asking Miko for help.
• Gu Ding contacted Miko in the Time Acceleration Cabin, and Miko emerged from seclusion as a Five-Star High-rank God with Third Heaven Barrier Art and offered to test the barrier.

Miko and Sea Emperor broke the barrier around the True God’s remains, releasing a conscious mass of True Blood that Gu Ding captured. With powerful people and blood demons converging on the site, Gu Ding led his group into the newly exposed abyss to search for more treasures.

• Miko analyzed the barrier with Sea Emperor’s help and broke it by disrupting its patterns.
• The barrier collapsed, and a mass of True Blood flew from the True God’s mouth as a crimson light visible across the ruins.
• Miko trapped the True Blood in a barrier while Gu Ding used his Devouring Flame to extinguish its consciousness and stored it away.
• Sea Emperor identified the mass as fifteen drops of True Blood, and Gu Ding decided the group could use one drop each and trade the rest.
• As people and blood demons rushed toward the site, Gu Ding jumped into the abyss, followed by Liliath and the others.

Gu Ding and his companions explored the True God Remains, where they caught energy-rich creatures in a lake made from the True God’s saliva. After Miko escaped unharmed from a giant fish, the group planned to keep their True Blood acquisition secret and move deeper into the remains before other teams arrived.

• Sea Emperor explained that the True God’s remains had fused with a Miniature World and contained unusual lifeforms, including cultivation-boosting aquatic creatures in a lake.
• Gu Ding, Dokter, Elsa, and Miko jumped into the dense lake and caught hundreds of fish while Liliath and Scarlet watched from above.
• A giant fish swallowed Miko, but he burst out unharmed after killing it with his Bursting Barrier, and Miko stored the fish away.
• Sea Emperor urged the group to follow the esophagus toward the stomach before other teams reached the remains.
• Miko proposed that the group stay hidden and avoid revealing that they had obtained the True Blood or entered the remains first.

Ye Mei and several other teams reached the True God Remains while Gu Ding's group entered its poisonous stomach swamp to gather valuable plants. After hours of harvesting, Sea Emperor warned Gu Ding's group that more people would soon arrive, so they planned to move to a remote area and later meet the other teams without revealing they had entered first.

• Ye Mei led eight Darkness Clan experts into the True God Remains, and human groups led by Oldas and Karrot followed with other powerful newcomers arriving afterward.
• Sea Emperor warned Gu Ding's group about the swamp's poison, corrosive gastric fluid, and dangerous plants and creatures, so Miko covered everyone with protective barriers.
• Gu Ding defeated a Red Lotus that transformed into a Two-Star Half-Step True God serpent and warned the others about the plants' strength.
• Elsa was struck into the swamp by a thorny vine, escaped its venomous attacks, and returned to Miko for more barriers before warning the group about ambushes.
• Gu Ding's group collected over a thousand plants before Sea Emperor told them to move to a remote area ahead of the other arrivals.

Gu Ding's group redirected suspicion about the missing Scarlet Sun toward Ye Mei while gathering treasures in the True God Remains. With one day left before the exit opened, Sea Emperor revealed the guarded warehouse's location, and Miko devised a scheme to draw Ye Mei's group there.

• Gu Ding's group met Ye Mei, and Liliath pressed him about the Scarlet Sun, leading others nearby to suspect that he had obtained it.
• Gu Ding's group continued collecting scattered treasures as the remains' survivors turned to a final search for loot.
• Sea Emperor revealed that two powerful Platinum Skeleton pet beasts guarded the damaged warehouse in the True God's brain.
• Miko proposed using a controlled Dark Race youth as bait to lure someone from Ye Mei's group to the warehouse.
• Liliath controlled a young Dark Race man, and Abram chased him to the brain, discovered the treasure vault and its guardians, then went to inform Ye Mei.

Ye Mei and Abram led the pursuing groups to the treasure vault, where Ye Mei staged a confrontation to draw everyone inside. The crowd rushed for the scattered treasures, and the chapter left off as the Platinum Skeletons awakened; an author’s note followed.

• Abram told Ye Mei about the treasures and guardian beasts in the remains’ brain, and Ye Mei went there with him as other teams followed.
• Ye Mei found four Spiritual Objects and two powerful Platinum Skeletons, then planned to use the pursuing crowd to distract them while he and Abram took treasures.
• Ye Mei killed a skinny young man and a Middle-Aged Man to deter the crowd, but Oldas challenged him and drew him into battle.
• With Ye Mei occupied, the crowd rushed past Abram and toward the shattered vault’s scattered treasures.
• The Platinum Skeletons turned toward the first person who picked up a Spiritual Object.

The Platinum Skeletons revealed overwhelming strength, prompting Gu Ding to refuse Ye Mei’s attempt to use him as bait. Hake volunteered to face the skeletons, and Gu Ding followed him; as they approached, Ye Mei turned against them to rush for the treasure.

• A Platinum Skeleton crushed several intruders with its pressure, and Gu Ding identified the two skeletons as Four-Star and Five-Star Half-Step True Gods.
• Ye Mei challenged Gu Ding to lure the skeletons away, but Gu Ding exposed his plan and refused to sacrifice himself.
• Ye Mei called the Human Race Camp cowardly and moved toward the treasure, prompting Hake to volunteer to go with him.
• Gu Ding warned Hake that Ye Mei intended to use him as bait, but Hake said he wanted to die, and Gu Ding followed them.
• The skeletons overwhelmed the three with stacked pressure, while Gu Ding’s team prepared to support them.
• As a skeleton roared at the approaching trio, Ye Mei used his blade force to push Gu Ding and Hake toward the skeletons and dashed toward a treasure.

Gu Ding survived being swallowed by a Five-Star Half-Step True God skeleton and used his domain to destroy it, then turned his power against Ye Mei. The chapter ended with Gu Ding killing Ye Mei inside the domain as the battle between the Human Race and Dark Race continued.

• Gu Ding pulled Hake out of Ye Mei’s attack and entered the Five-Star Half-Step True God skeleton’s range, where it swallowed him as Ye Mei claimed the treasures.
• Ye Mei recognized ownership of a spiritual object and led the Four-Star skeleton toward the Human Race Camp, prompting Scarlet, Liliath, and the others to fight back against the Dark Race.
• Gu Ding burst out of the Five-Star skeleton after destroying it, then used his Weakening Shackles and domain to weaken and kill the pursuing Platinum Skeleton.
• Gu Ding bound Ye Mei with the same chain and pulled him into his domain, where the Demon Face killed him with a single strike.

Gu Ding killed Ye Mei after defeating his repeated resurrections, then helped the Human Race Camp wipe out most of the Dark Race forces and collect the warehouse spoils. Boyi offered to take responsibility for Ye Mei’s death and be handed over to Night God, but Gu Ding refused to let him bear the blame and Boyi asked him to take care of Hake.

• Sea Emperor warned Gu Ding to wait, and Ye Mei revived twice through life-saving abilities left by Night God before Gu Ding killed him again each time.
• After Ye Mei revived a third time and attempted to escape, Gu Ding killed him; he waited until Ye Mei showed no further sign of resurrection, then took his belongings.
• Gu Ding ordered the Human Race Camp to kill the Dark Race members, and he and his companions hunted them down before collecting some of the warehouse treasures.
• Gu Ding explained to Liliath how he survived the five-star Half-Step True God skeleton, including losing and regenerating an arm.
• Boyi told Gu Ding he had dealt with the Dark Race witnesses and offered to claim that he had killed Ye Mei, knowing the Federal Government would hand him over to Night God.
• Gu Ding refused to let Boyi take responsibility, and Boyi asked him to take Hake along and help him grow.

With the ruins’ exit about to open, Gu Ding invited Hake to join his crew despite warnings that Hake’s King of Slaughter title could lead him down Boyi’s path. Hake accepted, though he warned that he would leave if he ever lost control.

• Gu Ding invited Hake to join the Pirate Crew, but Hake initially refused and asked to be left alone.
• Miniana warned Miko that Hake was a dangerous assassin whose King of Slaughter title had once belonged to Boyi, while Miko said the crew would support Gu Ding’s decision.
• Gu Ding told Hake that Boyi believed he could still be saved and had asked Gu Ding to recruit him.
• Hake spoke with Boyi, then returned and agreed to join Gu Ding’s crew, asking them not to search for him if he ever lost control.
• Gu Ding introduced Hake to Liliath, Dokter, and the others.

After the ruins closed, Night God accused the Human Race Camp of being responsible for Ye Mei’s death and confronted Gu Ding, who admitted he had killed him. Boyi erased the survivors’ memories and implanted a false account naming himself as the killer, while Ba Er Sa Ze prepared to manage the threat of war with the Darkness Clan.

• Night God learned Ye Mei had not returned and searched the memories of several Darkness Clan youths for information.
• Night God questioned Gu Ding about defeating Ye Mei, and Boyi claimed he was the only Human Race Camp member capable of killing him.
• Ba Er Sa Ze sent Gu Ding and the others away, while Night God threatened war if the Human Race Camp was implicated.
• Gu Ding admitted to Ba Er Sa Ze and Boyi that he had killed Ye Mei because Ye Mei had threatened his companions.
• Boyi proposed concealing the truth, and Ba Er Sa Ze agreed to coordinate with the Federal Government.
• Boyi altered the spacecraft passengers’ memories so they believed he had killed Ye Mei, while Sea Emperor and Hake remained unaffected.

Gu Ding’s Pirate Crew reunited on Aaron Star, welcomed new members Scarlet and Hake, and shared news of their growing strength and rankings. Aboard the spacecraft, Gu Ding distributed treasures from the ruin as the crew celebrated together.

• Gu Ding’s group arrived on Aaron Star and reunited with Bigge, Fa Te, and the others.
• Fa Te revealed that he had inherited Ever’s legacy and reached fifth-star Low-rank God, while he and the crew discussed their rankings; Scarlet was recognized and Hake was introduced as a new member.
• The crew boarded Bigge’s spacecraft, where Bigge told Gu Ding about Hake’s assassin background and Gu Ding learned that Koude.Brad had become a High-rank God and topped the Silver Prodigy Ranking.
• Gu Ding reunited with Blue and Tagore, and the crew gathered for Bigge’s celebratory feast.
• Gu Ding distributed True Blood, a spiritual long saber for Bigge, and Soul Pearls, after which the crew shared their own spoils.

Gu Ding trained with the inherited technique Martial Dao True Intent in the Time Acceleration Cabin, raising his Martial Dao Intent to the Enlightenment Realm and greatly strengthening his soul and combat skills. As the spacecraft neared the Ikes Star Region, Sea Emperor called him to gather the crew about a new Bounty Order from the Federal Government.

• Gu Ding absorbed the inheritance memories and began training with Martial Dao True Intent, where a projection of himself repeatedly defeated him.
• Gu Ding overcame the first projection and then fought a stronger one, eventually advancing his Martial Dao Intent to the Enlightenment Realm after hundreds of days inside the Time Acceleration Cabin.
• Gu Ding discovered that his soul strength had risen to the peak of a Seven-Star High-rank God and that his combat experience had greatly improved.
• Sea Emperor told Gu Ding that Liliath had risen to second on the Black Iron Prodigy Ranking and that the crew's members had all lost to Hake until Bigge defeated him.
• Sea Emperor told Gu Ding to gather everyone because the Federal Government had issued a new Bounty Order.

Sea Emperor reviewed the Gu Ding Pirate Crew’s sharply increased bounties and warned that their fame would draw powerful pursuers. Gu Ding then endured his Heavenly Tribulation, reaching the High-rank God level before the crew resumed its journey to the Ikes Star Region.

• Sea Emperor showed the crew’s updated Bounty Orders, which totaled 5.38 billion Origin Stones, and explained the danger their rising notoriety posed.
• Sea Emperor announced that Gu Ding ranked first on the Annual Rookie list and the Gu Ding Pirate Crew ranked first among rookie teams.
• Sea Emperor suggested that Gu Ding undergo his delayed Heavenly Tribulation, and the crew docked at an uninhabited planet.
• Gu Ding withstood eighteen lightning strikes with his body and broke through from Mid-rank God to High-rank God.
• Gu Ding absorbed the remaining lightning with Devouring the Heavens and Swallowing the Earth, raising his divine source to Three-Star High-rank God, then returned to the ship as it headed for the Ikes Star Region.

Gu Ding and his crew visited the Mandela Auction House to buy Mechanical Hearts and consign loot, where chief appraiser Bonn House discovered their True Blood. Bonn House identified it as First Sequence True Blood at the completion stage and asked Gu Ding to sell it to him.

• Gu Ding asked deputy manager Bonnie to post requests for a four-star and a five-star Mechanical Heart, and Fa Te set their offers at fifty million and five hundred million source stones.
• Liliath used Fa Te's Gates Family badge to reduce the service fee, and Gu Ding signed the procurement contract and paid.
• Gu Ding brought the crew's Pseudo Spiritual Objects and other loot to the appraisal room, where Bonn House initially showed little interest.
• Gu Ding mentioned that they had True Blood left by a True God, and Bonn House revealed his powerful aura and demanded to see it.
• Bonn House examined the True Blood, recognized it as First Sequence blood at the completion stage, and asked Gu Ding to sell it to him.

Gu Ding sold one drop of perfected First Sequence True Blood to Bonn House for 90 billion source stones and consigned five more drops along with his group’s other spoils. After arranging the auction, Gu Ding and his companions left for Gourmet Street, while Bonn House prepared to go into seclusion.

• Bonn House offered Gu Ding 90 billion source stones for one drop of perfected First Sequence True Blood, and Gu Ding accepted.
• Gu Ding revealed that he had six drops available and sold one to Bonn House, then had Bonn House appraise the group’s other spoils.
• Gu Ding consigned the remaining five drops of True Blood and the appraised items to the auction, despite Bonn House warning that the five drops might average less than 90 billion each.
• Bonnie arranged for the auction items to be stored until the auction’s final day and promised Gu Ding a complete item list the following afternoon.
• Gu Ding and his companions left the Auction House for Gourmet Street, and Bonn House told Bonnie he would enter seclusion for the next few days.