Chapter Summaries

The players joined forces across the China and Europe servers to raid merchant fleets, prompting Smoke Dragon to summon the Sea King for intelligence and prepare a counterattack. Sha Shui warned the players at Liuli Coast that Smoke Dragon's forces were approaching, and they began planning how to make the guild pay.

• China Server and Europe Server players cooperated to raid merchant ships, striking the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild and looting eighty-nine vessels in five days.
• Smoke Dragon learned of the raids and summoned the Sea King to ask about the Player Race's strength.
• The Sea King warned Smoke Dragon that the players would keep retaliating until the guild was destroyed, but Smoke Dragon vowed to exterminate them and ordered his forces to assemble.
• Smoke Dragon prepared to personally lead an assault while Sha Shui arrived at Liuli Coast with a warning that the fleet was coming.
• The players discussed their response on the forums and planned to make the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild pay for its attack.

The players prepared Liuli Coast for the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild’s invasion, strengthening their forces with new equipment, explosives, and support from Europe Server guilds. Smoke Dragon led his fleet into the False Void Sea Region and turned toward Liuli Coast, determined to destroy the Player Race.

• Lin Tie’s forging team worked through the night to produce naval equipment, while Hu He and Nie Feng arrived from Europe Server to bolster the players’ morale.
• Nie Feng refined Thunder Pills that dealt lightning damage and inflicted status effects, then began researching underwater bombs with advice and materials from Rock.
• Players from both servers gathered ships and supplies at Liuli Coast, and Lu Wu gained Soul Coin taxes as players spent their savings to improve their combat strength.
• Smoke Dragon entered the False Void Sea Region with more than five hundred warships and over twelve thousand people, deploying a fleet-wide thunderstorm formation.
• Smoke Dragon ordered his fleet toward Liuli Coast and resolved to exterminate the players for repeatedly plundering his merchant ships.

Yin Xiaoqi led the Player fleet to confront the Smoke Dragon Fleet, whose leader underestimated the Players’ growth-type Ghost Ships. The fleets clashed after the Players destroyed Smoke Dragon’s summoned waterspout, and the battle for the sea region began.

• Yin Xiaoqi rallied the Europe and China Server Players and led their fleet from Liuli Coast toward the Smoke Dragon Fleet.
• Smoke Dragon learned the approaching Player fleet numbered more than fifty thousand ships, but his intelligence officer convinced him they were inferior Paper Tigers.
• Smoke Dragon ordered his fleet to ram the Players and used the Sea God’s Edict to summon storms, a waterspout, and Water Element Giants.
• Yin Xiaoqi spread out the fleet and directed the Five Elements Sorcerers to use wind power to disrupt and destroy the waterspout.
• The two fleets collided as Ship Spirits and lightning struck across the front lines, while the Water Giants attacked the Players.

Yin Xiaoqi and the Players fought Smoke Dragon’s fleet with a reckless ramming strategy, using their ships’ ability to be repaired to damage the stronger enemy warships. Gu Yu’s test revealed that most Smoke Dragon Warships could be damaged by ships above Level 13, and Smoke Dragon’s fleet ended surrounded as Sea King watched from the storm clouds.

• Smoke Dragon used the Sea God’s Edict to unleash lightning, Water Giants, and freezing seas, while Yin Xiaoqi ordered the Players to focus fire on his main ship and thicken the ice to slow his fleet.
• Europe Server necromancers summoned skeletal warriors aboard enemy ships, and Reinhardt tested Smoke Dragon’s main ship’s shield but failed to break it.
• Gu Yu rammed a Smoke Dragon Warship with the Mythical Warship, damaging its horn and determining that the other Smoke Dragon Warships had shielded durability around Level 15.
• Gu Yu told the Players that warships above Level 13 could damage Smoke Dragon’s fleet, prompting Players to launch increasingly reckless collisions with their ships.
• Smoke Dragon ordered his fleet to retreat, but Yin Xiaoqi’s forces surrounded it with at least five rings of ships as Sea King watched from above.

The Players discovered that Bomb Man’s Thunder Pills attracted lightning from the Smoke Dragon fleet’s storm formation, letting them destroy several warships before Smoke Dragon shut the formation down. The battle resumed with the Players badly outnumbered and losing ships, but they remained determined to keep fighting.

• Yin Xiaoqi ordered the Players to abandon the Smoke Dragon main ship and attack the other warships, while Sister Yue explained that sinking a third of the fleet would disperse the storm clouds.
• An Sheng ordered the Evil God Guild to jump into the sea as their warship rammed a Smoke Dragon warship, and the fat man accidentally triggered a Thunder Pill’s lightning-attraction effect.
• An Sheng and the fat man used two Thunder Pills to sink Smoke Dragon warship No. 428, then spread the discovery through the Players’ voice channels.
• Liu Chai informed the Players that Thunder Pills could break the warships’ defenses, and the Players used them to damage or sink more than thirty Smoke Dragon warships.
• Smoke Dragon ordered the storm formation shut down, stopping the Thunder Pills from drawing lightning, and the Smoke Dragon fleet resumed its attacks.
• The battle continued with more than twenty thousand Player warships lost and thirty-four Smoke Dragon warships sunk, while the Players refused to retreat.

After the Players’ fleet was destroyed, Smoke Dragon lost his composure over the battle’s enormous cost and the disappearance of the wreckage. He tried to attack the sleeping Doctor Sea, but a series of strange mishaps and a giant sea creature left Smoke Dragon severely injured while Doctor Sea went back to sleep.

• Smoke Dragon’s fleet sank the remaining Player warships, but the Player wreckage vanished before his crew could salvage it.
• Smoke Dragon’s losses enraged him during the return voyage, and he tried to strike Doctor Sea as the sleeping man drifted past.
• The warship barrier rebounded Smoke Dragon’s attacks, and Flowing Fire Cannon shells misfired at him while Doctor Sea remained unharmed.
• Smoke Dragon sent distorted space toward Doctor Sea, but a giant sea creature emerged and struck Smoke Dragon into the water.
• Doctor Sea woke briefly, asked if he could sleep in peace, and closed his eyes again.

After Smoke Dragon was gravely wounded by Taowu, rumors of his condition threatened the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild’s standing and power. Meanwhile, Player Lin Tie proposed secretly dismantling the guild’s warships, and the Players began studying the technique to make the tactic possible.

• Smoke Dragon’s fleet annihilated the Player Race at Black Reef Island, but rumors soon spread that Smoke Dragon had been gravely wounded and was near death.
• Smoke Wolf and Black Reef Guild Master worried that the rumors would cost the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild its War Merchant Guild title while Smoke Dragon remained unconscious.
• The resurrected Players recognized their weakness against Smoke Dragon’s Sea God’s Edict and discussed new ways to fight the guild.
• Lin Tie posted a proposal to infiltrate Smoke Dragon Warships and use Disassembly Decomposition to dismantle their components.
• Players crowded into the underworld library to learn the forging ability, and Lu Wu expanded the library as Lin Tie posted a guide.

Smoke Wolf discovered that players had stolen parts of Warship No. 176 and then endured weeks of relentless raids on the Smoke Dragon Fleet. With Smoke Dragon still injured and absent, Hei Sui delivered documents analyzing the guild’s strength and applying for a war to the Underworld Sea Merchant Alliance, giving the Mastermind the opening he wanted.

• Smoke Wolf found the Ship Duty Personnel tied underwater and learned that thieves had dismantled and stolen Warship No. 176.
• Smoke Wolf ordered the guild members to sleep aboard the ships and personally guard the fleet, but waves of player raids continued day and night.
• Players repeatedly attacked the Smoke Dragon Fleet to steal valuable warship components, leaving Smoke Wolf and the guild members exhausted and unable to flee while Smoke Dragon remained in the Spirit Cave.
• The players’ continued harassment spread news across the two sea regions that the Player Race had survived and raised suspicions that Smoke Dragon was gravely injured.
• Hei Sui carried the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild Battle Strength Analysis and a War Merchant Guild Application Letter from New End Island to the Underworld Sea Merchant Alliance branch.
• The Mastermind saw Smoke Dragon’s crisis as an opportunity to advance his plans.

For half a month, the Players repeatedly attacked the Smoke Dragon Fleet to steal warship components, driving Smoke Wolf and his exhausted crew toward collapse. Just as reinforcements seemed to arrive, Smoke Wolf recognized the Sea King’s fleet and demanded to know why he had come.

• Players made Ship Dismantling a lucrative grinding activity and continued attacking the Smoke Dragon Fleet despite repeated deaths.
• Smoke Wolf sent a warship to request combat support from the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild branch as the fleet’s losses and exhaustion mounted.
• After another three days of relentless attacks, Smoke Wolf and his crew celebrated when the returning ship appeared with reinforcements.
• Smoke Wolf’s relief vanished when he saw the Mute fleet following the returning ship and recognized the Sea King.
• The Sea King landed on the Smoke Dragon main ship, and Smoke Wolf asked what he was doing there.

Sea King used the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild’s defeat and Smoke Dragon’s injury to win a review by the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild branch. Shadow Elder stripped Smoke Dragon of its War Merchant Guild status and gave Sea King the qualification, leaving Sea King in control of the guild’s Sea God’s Edict.

• Sea King revealed his blank Sea God's Edict and Shadow Elder arrived to assess the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild and Sea King's forces.
• Smoke Wolf took Shadow Elder and Sea King to the Spirit Cave, where Shadow Elder examined the unconscious Smoke Dragon and learned Taowu had injured him.
• Shadow Elder told Smoke Wolf that the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild no longer met the requirements for a War Merchant Guild, while Sea King qualified with his forces and the Stone Statue Legion.
• Shadow Elder removed the Sea God's Edict from Smoke Dragon and declared that the Mute Sea Country would become the Mute Sea Merchant Guild under the Yellow Springs Soul Devouring Sea Region branch.
• Shadow Elder handed Smoke Dragon's Edict to Sea King, who was told to use his blank scroll to devour it.

After the Sea King transferred the Sea God's Edict Scroll, Smoke Wolf recounted how the Smoke Dragon brothers had lost their village while pursuing strength and vowed to rebuild the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild. Shadow Elder explained that true strength meant being free to choose one's own fate, leaving the Sea King wondering whether he could someday overthrow the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild.

• The Sea King transferred the Sea God's Edict Scroll from Smoke Dragon's scroll to his own, ending the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild's standing.
• Smoke Wolf told the Sea King how he and Smoke Dragon had led their village toward a better life, lost their clansmen, and continued fighting to honor the village elder's final wish.
• Smoke Wolf marked his chest with his War Blade, vowed to repay the Sea King, declared the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild's independence, and carried Smoke Dragon away.
• Shadow Elder told the Sea King that strength gave people the freedom to choose good or evil, and that Smoke Wolf had become ruthless in pursuit of a better end.
• Shadow Elder called the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild greatly evil, then left before the Sea King could ask whether its leader was good or evil.
• The Sea King considered becoming strong enough to overthrow the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild, then dismissed the idea as too ambitious for now.

Sea King obtained the Sea God's Edict Scroll and War Merchant Guild qualification, but the Players attacked and wrecked his fleet anyway, leaving him wary of their unpredictable ways. The Players later learned of Sea King's sudden rise and realized he had outgrown the slow-growth path they had planned to harvest.

• Sea King left the Spirit Cave with the Sea God's Edict Scroll and found Players smashing his warships after Smoke Wolf had told them Mut was now a War Merchant Guild.
• Sea King used the scroll to summon huge waves and storms, killing the Players, while they damaged his ships as much as they could before dying.
• Hei Sui reported that Mut had lost thirty-six warships, and Sea King ordered the faction to return to New End Island, repair its fleet, and avoid fighting the Players.
• Sea King reflected on the Players' strange, happy way of life and wondered whether they could someday change the Underworld's cruel survival laws.
• Players posted news of Sea King's new status on the forums and lamented that he had grown stronger faster than the leek they had planned to harvest repeatedly.

Sea King consolidated his control of the War Merchant Guild and demanded most of the Kui Long Sea Region’s underwater resources, but the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild ordered him to investigate the plundering. Before he could decide how to handle the mission, the Players arrived and began smashing his warships, leaving him furious.

• Players discussed harvesting Sea King’s power by targeting his ships while trying not to cripple his faction.
• Sea King accepted supplies from the Langya Island Allied Forces but demanded four-fifths of the region’s underwater resource sites instead of making peace.
• A messenger from the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild gave Sea King a mission to investigate the plundering incidents and explain them to the sea merchants.
• Sea King considered blaming the missing Tian Lan for the Players’ plundering, but his lords could not find her.
• The Player fleet approached New End Island, and Sea King ordered his forces to prepare for battle.
• Players ignored the Mu Te Warriors and hammered Sea King’s warships for components, enraging him.

Lu Wu used five Human Emperor's Mirror Fragmented Pages to open five more Body Divine Treasures, reaching the mid-stage Ghost King realm and gaining the ability to cross between the Three Realms. Bei Li then explained that Human Emperor Tu Mie plundered beyond the realms to forge an immortal racial artifact for humanity, while she admitted her account of the Three Realms’ origins was only a guess.

• Number One returned from America with five Human Emperor's Mirror Fragmented Pages, and Lu Wu spent 780 million Soul Coins to have Bei Li analyze and use them.
• Lu Wu endured more than half an hour of pain as the golden liquid opened five acupoints and strengthened his body.
• Lu Wu checked his status and discovered that he had reached the mid-stage Ghost King realm and could cross between the heavenly and nether realms and beyond the Three Realms.
• Bei Li told Lu Wu that Tu Mie, the earliest Human Emperor and Human Ancestor, had plundered beyond the realms to forge a powerful racial artifact for humanity.
• Lu Wu asked who created the Heavenly Dao and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Bei Li said Tu Mie might have made them but admitted she was guessing.
• Lu Wu called Bei Li an old hag for claiming to be only three hundred years old, and Bei Li bit his arm.

Lu Wu learned that an immortal had arrived in Nine Radiance, where Luo Xiu defeated a Heavenly Realm deity and seized his divine fire. After the deity escaped, Luo Xiu swallowed the flame and headed for the Hell Great Domain, while a meteor crashed into Bei Qi’s Netherworld Mansion and killed many Players.

• Bei Li warned Lu Wu that an immortal had arrived in Nine Radiance.
• Luo Xiu fought a Heavenly Realm deity, captured him with his Asura Demon God phantom, and extracted his divine fire.
• The deity unexpectedly escaped, and Luo Xiu swallowed the divine fire before deciding to flee to the Hell Great Domain.
• A fireball crashed into the eastern plaza of Bei Qi’s Netherworld Mansion, killing Players and destroying nearby buildings.
• The Players suspected that Bomb Man had caused the explosion and cursed him.

Fu Bao, a wounded envoy from the Heavenly Realm, crashed into the Underworld after Luo Xiu took his divine fire. The Players beat him when he refused to compensate them, and Rock and Copper Hanger proposed hiding him by burying him beneath layers of barriers.

• Players discovered that the man who had fallen into the eastern square was Fu Bao, a near-dead Divine Realm envoy from the Heavenly Realm.
• Fu Bao recalled how Luo Xiu had defeated him and taken his divine fire, leaving him unable to return to the Heavenly Realm.
• Fu Bao demanded to speak with the Lord Governor and refused to compensate the Players, who mocked and beat him.
• Rock and Copper Hanger recognized Fu Bao as an envoy of the Heavenly Realm and warned that offending his faction could bring trouble.
• Rock and Copper Hanger proposed burying Fu Bao beneath several layers of barriers, leaving him panicked and humiliated.

After Luo Xiu defeated Fu Bao, the wounded god fell into the Underworld, where Gu Yu, Liu Chai, Gouzi, Copper Hanger, Rock, and Xiao Tian debated how to contain him. Threatened with being sealed away for millennia, Fu Bao offered a way to make his divine body deteriorate quickly, but Copper Hanger demanded more details.

• Luo Wu and Bei Li realized Fu Bao’s arrival could draw the Heavenly Realm’s attention, while Copper Hanger and Rock began considering how to handle him.
• Gu Yu, Liu Chai, Gouzi, Copper Hanger, Rock, and Xiao Tian discussed burying, imprisoning, or refining Fu Bao, who begged them to send him back to the Heavenly Realm.
• Fu Bao asked them to kill him rather than seal him away, then explained that losing his divine fire had made his body vulnerable to rapid deterioration if they damaged one corner of its structure.
• Copper Hanger pressed Fu Bao to explain exactly how to damage his divine body, while Fu Bao angrily endured the group’s taunts.

Copper Hanger and Boulder completed a Dissolving Array to destroy Fu Bao’s divine body, while Lu Wu challenged Fu Bao’s hatred of the Netherworld and showed him Cang Xu’s memories of Xian Ke. Fu Bao’s certainty in the Heavenly Realm was shaken, and Lu Wu left him with a bet about whether the Heavenly Realm would abandon him.

• Copper Hanger and Boulder finished the Dissolving Array, which began draining Fu Bao’s divine power and was expected to destroy his body over six months.
• After Copper Hanger and Boulder left, Fu Bao feared his fate and cursed the Netherworld, prompting Lu Wu to appear and confront him.
• Lu Wu rebuked Fu Bao for his cowardice and contrasted him with Luo Xiu and the warriors of the Netherworld.
• Lu Wu used a divine artifact to show Fu Bao Cang Xu’s memories of Xian Ke and the Heavenly Realm gods’ decision to abandon her.
• Shaken by what he saw, Fu Bao rejected Lu Wu’s account, and Lu Wu proposed betting on whether the Heavenly Realm would abandon Fu Bao after his divine body shattered.

Lu Wu weakened Fu Bao and left him exposed to the Heavenly Realm, betting that his master would abandon him. Immortal Lord Qingmo refused to take Fu Bao back and expelled him, leaving Fu Bao despairing and questioning everything he had believed.

• Lu Wu and Bei Li altered Fu Bao so he could not reveal their existence, then used the formation to destroy his divine body.
• Lu Wu left Fu Bao outside the Ice and Snow Clan's territory with a Yin Talisman and hid in the Divine Artifact Space as two Heavenly Realm figures arrived.
• Fu Bao's master, Immortal Lord Qingmo, and a sword-bearing man found him and explained that yin energy in his body left him unable to return to ordinary cultivation.
• The sword-bearing man said Fu Bao could only cultivate by reaching the Ghost Realm's demigod stage and taking divine fires from gods.
• Qingmo refused Fu Bao's plea to take him back, expelled him from his disciples, and departed with his companion.

After Fu Bao’s master, Immortal Lord Qingmo, expelled him, Fu Bao accepted Lu Wu’s offer to become stronger, only to be forcibly modified into a new person. Lu Wu turned him into a Life Profession mentor and sent him to Africa to pioneer new land.

• Ruthless expelled Fu Bao from the sect, leaving him resentful and determined to cultivate ghost arts and make Immortal Lord Qingmo regret his betrayal.
• Lu Wu offered Fu Bao power in exchange for abandoning his past, then sent him through a Space Passage to Bei Li for forced modification.
• Bei Li erased Fu Bao’s memories of the Heavenly Realm and changed his appearance, preserving his knowledge of formations, runes, and Life Professions.
• Lu Wu welcomed Fu Bao as a new Life Profession mentor and decided to send him to Africa to pioneer new land.