Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi traveled toward Port Vias in a powerful magical carriage while considering how to use Jiawu’s former Church agent. At the Harlan–Vias border, a tax officer approached the carriage with an assessment notice.

• Bilibili drove Lin Qi’s armored carriage recklessly along the road, targeting wealthy travelers while sparing plainly dressed people.
• Lin Qi reflected on the carriage’s origins and its formidable defenses and weapons.
• Lin Qi recalled how Jiawu had used an agent in the Black Abyss Divine Prison to kill a Saint-warrior and disrupt the Suppressing Divine Array.
• Lin Qi decided to support Jiawu’s former agent, now a Cardinal, and use him to gain influence within the Church.
• The carriage stopped at the Harlan–Vias border checkpoint, where a trembling tax officer presented Bilibili with a tax assessment notice.

Lin Qi and his companions crossed into the Harlan Empire, where Elder Qing used his Vias Commercial Federation titles to pass the checkpoint without paying taxes. After learning that wealth could buy noble titles and fund private armies in the Federation, Lin Qi became eager to seize power there, and the group arrived at Port Vias.

• Lin Qi asked how to avoid the checkpoint taxes, while the middle-aged knight demanded proof of noble status.
• Elder Qing presented his identity as Yun Qing, hereditary count of the Vias Commercial Federation, and the guards opened the border gates.
• Elder Qing revealed that he held many purchasable noble titles and advised Lin Qi to buy titles and territory in the Vias Commercial Federation.
• Lin Qi asked whether the Federation’s supreme ruler could declare war, and Elder Qing explained that armies belonged to private families and city-states.
• Yun warned that Lin Qi’s immense wealth could bring calamity to the Federation, while Elder Qing entertained replacing it with a centralized empire.
• Three days later, Lin Qi and his companions reached Port Vias.

Lin Qi and Elder Qing approached Port Vias, a vast city where wealth governed nearly everything. As they neared the city, Lin Qi considered settling an old score with Gram, while Alda eagerly began courting a wealthy young woman.

• Lin Qi admired Port Vias and learned from Elder Qing that its enormous lighthouse coin could not be stolen because it weighed twenty thousand tons and could not fit in a spatial ring.
• Elder Qing warned Lin Qi not to antagonize powerful nobles and advised him to use gold rather than force in disputes.
• Lin Qi remembered Gram, his former brother, and considered emptying his family's warehouses in Port Vias as revenge.
• Alda marveled at the city's elegant women, and Lin Qi warned him against praising demon gods in public.
• Alda flirted with a young woman from a passing carriage, impressing her with his jewelry and expensive handkerchief until she blushed and spoke to him.

Lin Qi and Yun settled into the lavish Coral Flower Hotel in Port Vias, where Lin Qi admired the wealth and strength of Eastern merchants arriving from the Blood Qin Empire. Yun proposed that they walk through the city, and Lin Qi set out with him and Bilibili toward Port Vias’s commercial district.

• Elder Qing booked three expensive suites at the Coral Flower Hotel and left a large deposit for the group’s expenses.
• Lin Qi spotted a heavily guarded Eastern cargo ship in the harbor and thought about visiting the Blood Qin Empire to meet an old acquaintance.
• Yun told Lin Qi that a ship would come to collect them the next day and suggested they walk around Vias.
• Lin Qi teased Yun about his frail body, then promised to seek medicine to strengthen him when they traveled East.
• Lin Qi, Yun, and Bilibili left the hotel and headed toward Port Vias’s commercial district.

Lin Qi carried Yun through Port Vias to Vias Square, where Yun spent the afternoon browsing luxurious shops while Lin Qi and Bilibili struggled to keep up. As night fell, Yun dragged them toward the square’s night market to hunt for overlooked treasures.

• Yun refused to pay for a carriage, so Lin Qi carried him toward Vias Square while Yun bought snacks along the way.
• Yun reached Glorious Vias Avenue and led Lin Qi and Bilibili into the enormous commercial square.
• Yun stopped to admire a black pearl necklace, and Bilibili suggested robbing the shop until Lin Qi explained the Vias Merchant Alliance Bounty Order.
• Yun browsed shops until evening, leaving Lin Qi and Bilibili exhausted without buying anything.
• Yun announced they would eat local snacks and search the night market for overlooked treasures, then dragged Lin Qi toward Vias Square.

Lin Qi and Yun enjoyed fresh food and wine in Vias Square, savoring their freedom after years in the Black Abyss Divine Prison. As Lin Qi’s Three Seas grew stronger and his body absorbed the lingering effects of his potions, he became ravenously hungry and ordered enormous quantities of seafood.

• Bilibili drank cup after cup of wine while Lin Qi and Yun shared fruit and fresh Blue Light Oysters in Vias Square.
• Lin Qi ate more than twenty oysters and recalled growing up with seafood in Dunkirk, while Yun refused to try the oysters and ordered other dishes.
• Yun joined Lin Qi in devouring the fine food, and the two realized they were alive and free beneath the night sky.
• Lin Qi’s Three Seas expanded as food and potions worked together, and he sensed that he was nearing the next techniques of the Seven Wheels.
• Lin Qi’s body absorbed the remaining medicinal power, making him stronger and intensely hungry, so he ordered whole fish and other massive seafood dishes.

Lin Qi began cultivating the Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture in the surface world and disguised his true strength and character before joining Yun and Elder Qing's party. As they prepared to leave with the Golden Rudder Family, Alda arrived looking exhausted.

• Lin Qi woke in the Coral Flower Hotel, mistook his surroundings for danger, then cultivated with the rising sun and strengthened his Three Seas.
• Lin Qi decided to perfect the Three Seas before advancing, then dressed and used his concealment bracelet to appear as a mid-stage Earth Rank dandy.
• Lin Qi woke Bilibili by dunking him in water and ordered him to wash, dress, and prepare to leave.
• Lin Qi and Bilibili joined Yun, Elder Qing, and representatives of the Golden Rudder Family in the hotel lobby.
• Alda entered the hotel on unsteady legs, with dark circles beneath his eyes.

Lin Qi reunited with Alda, who had spent the night entertaining nine wealthy young ladies and earned nine hundred thousand gold coins, then brought him to the Golden Rudder Family’s island. The chapter left Lin Qi confronting the family’s immense wealth and military strength as their ship arrived.

• Alda collapsed in the hotel lobby and explained that he had spent the night with nine young ladies, earning nine hundred thousand gold coins.
• Lin Qi took Alda’s earnings, gave him a potion, and fled the hotel with the others after Alda loudly boasted about his exploits.
• Lin Qi beat Alda on the Golden Rudder Family’s ship, repeatedly restoring him with potions as the vessel sailed toward the family’s island.
• The ship reached Golden Rudder Island, where Yun Fenghua and two thousand well-equipped private soldiers awaited them.
• Lin Qi saw the family’s magical armor and powerful troops and realized how the Vias Commercial Federation maintained its strength through wealth.

Yun returned to Golden Rudder Island with Lin Qi and learned that the family’s chief and elders were away, leaving Deputy Chief Clausen in charge. At a lavish welcome feast, Clausen appeared with armed men, and Yun Fenghua retreated to their side.

• Lin Qi saw the Golden Rudder Family’s heavily armed harbor and learned from Yun that its escort fleet had once included fifteen thousand trained sailors and that the family controlled several other powerful front families.
• Yun Fenghua welcomed Yun and reported that his father and deputy chiefs were away while the Patriarch and most elders guarded the Patriarch’s seclusion.
• Elder Qing warned Yun Fenghua to keep Yun’s return secret from Clausen, and she said she had sent his faction’s people away on errands.
• Yun and his party traveled under heavy guard to the Golden Rudder Family’s island residence, where a welcoming feast was held for them.
• Deputy Chief Clausen entered the hall with a large armed group, and Yun Fenghua quickly withdrew to a corner beside senior family members.

Clausen revealed that he had seized control of Yun Fenghua’s branch of the family and ordered Lin Qi, Yun, and Elder Qing killed. Lin Qi unleashed a devastating attack to break through the soldiers, but Yun Lan struck him from behind, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Clausen confessed that Yun Fenghua had been his lover for ten years and that he controlled her clansmen, then taunted Yun about his inheritance and the eight maidservants his mother had left him.
• Yun collapsed after Clausen claimed the maidservants had been murdered, and Lin Qi and Elder Qing revived him.
• Clausen ordered his soldiers to attack, and Lin Qi burned through their ranks with a massive fireball before unleashing Hell Roar Chain Fireball on Clausen.
• Clausen’s protective magic broke under Lin Qi’s barrage, and his violet-gold battle energy revealed that he was a peak Heaven-rank warrior.
• Lin Qi told Bilibili and Alda to clear a path, then fought through the soldiers with his battle axe.
• Yun Lan struck Lin Qi in the back with a powerful punch, sending blood from his mouth, nose, ears, and eyes.

Lin Qi survived Elder Yun Lan’s ambush and joined Elder Qing in killing him, then used the World Ring to slaughter the soldiers across Golden Rudder Island. Lin Qi ordered Bilibili to burn the evidence, and the group fled toward the docks.

• Elder Yun Lan struck Lin Qi from behind, but Lin Qi’s magical armor and blood transformation let him withstand the blow and counterattack with his axe.
• Yun Lan shattered Lin Qi’s axe with his bare palms, but Elder Qing stunned him with a lightning talisman.
• Lin Qi used Soul Extraction to take Yun Lan’s soul, then stabbed him in the brow to conceal the cause of death.
• Lin Qi unleashed Soul Impact across the banquet hall and Golden Rudder Island, killing soldiers throughout the area.
• Lin Qi ordered Bilibili to set the scene ablaze, and the group hurried toward the docks.

Lin Qi and his companions fought their way across Golden Rudder Island after Bilibili's magic and Lin Qi's soul attack devastated the Golden Rudder Family. As they reached the docks, a superheavy armored force blocked their escape, and Lin Qi began casting Meteorite Catastrophe.

• Bilibili's Hellfire Rain destroyed the Golden Rudder Family's residence and spread toxic fumes that killed guards across the island.
• Clausen ordered the family to kill the invaders and pressured Yun Fenghua to conceal the deaths and blame Elder Yun Lan.
• Lin Qi led Elder Qing, Yun, Alda, and Bilibili toward the docks, killing a force of heavy infantry and a squad of crossbowmen along the way.
• A hundred warriors in superheavy tower armor and wall shields blocked the road to the docks.
• Lin Qi drank magic-restoration and amplification potions and began casting the pseudo-forbidden spell Meteorite Catastrophe.

Lin Qi used Meteorite Catastrophe to destroy the Golden Rudder Family’s forces and the ships at the dock, then escaped with Yun and Elder Qing aboard a magic-powered trimaran. Clausen ordered the harbor fortresses and allied warships to intercept them.

• Lin Qi cast Meteorite Catastrophe, and its Flame Shock spell burned the approaching Golden Rudder Family soldiers before the meteorite struck the armored formation.
• Lin Qi led Yun, Elder Qing, and the others through the wrecked dock, where they found that the blast had destroyed nearly every warship.
• With thousands of soldiers and Heaven-rank warriors approaching, Lin Qi summoned a magic-powered trimaran and activated its furnace.
• Lin Qi explained that he had taken the trimaran from Xie Rui, then sped away from the dock with Yun, Elder Qing, Alda, and Bilibili aboard.
• Clausen watched the trimaran escape, then ordered the harbor fortresses and allied warships to pursue and kill its occupants.

Lin Qi, Yun, and Elder Qing escaped Golden Rudder Island aboard a powerful three-hulled vessel while its defenses repelled the fortress attacks. As Lin Qi planned to expose the Golden Rudder Family and place bounties on its leaders, a Golden Sail Family convoy intercepted them and twelve water mages trapped their ship in a vortex.

• Lin Qi steered the three-hulled vessel through attacks from Golden Rudder Island's fortresses, using its magical defenses and the others' magic power to escape into the southern waters of Port Vias.
• Yun proposed informing the family, and Lin Qi suggested spreading rumors and offering huge bounties on Golden Rudder Family leaders; Yun added Clausen and others to the list.
• A fleet of twenty-five Golden Sail Family cargo ships and twelve warships approached, and its commanders ordered Lin Qi to stop for inspection.
• Twelve grand water mages cast Vortex Strangulation, creating a huge vortex beside Lin Qi's vessel and pulling it off balance.

As a typhoon battered Shanghai, Pighead explained that family visits would limit his updates for several days. In the story, Lin Qi and his companions destroyed the Golden Sail Family’s warships and then moved to rob its cargo fleet.

• Pighead said he would escort his nearly seventy-year-old parents and other family members around Shanghai, so the number of updates over the next several days would depend on how much time he had.
• Lin Qi’s trimaran was trapped by a whirlpool and cyclone as six Golden Sail Family warships closed in, but he had Yun steer while he, Alda, and Bilibili attacked the enemy mages with magic-tracking bolts.
• The enemy water mages retreated, collapsing the whirlpool and freeing the trimaran; Lin Qi ordered Yun to circle back and attack the warships.
• Lin Qi, Alda, and Bilibili used Annihilation Ghostflame Bombs to sink all six Golden Sail Family warships, then destroyed the remaining Golden Rudder Family warships.
• Lin Qi’s group circled the Golden Sail Family cargo ships, and Lin Qi announced that they had been robbed.

Lin Qi and his companions robbed a Golden Sail Family fleet carrying weapons, armor, grain, and potions for the Dark Spirit Empire, then escaped toward a small harbor near Port Vias. After learning about the empire’s war on the Black Spirit Continent, Lin Qi and Yun considered how the information might benefit them.

• Lin Qi destroyed three cargo ships, forced the remaining fleet to submit, and stripped the sailors and Golden Sail Family stewards of their valuables.
• Lin Qi seized the fleet’s cargo and learned that it was urgently bound for the Dark Spirit Empire, which was fighting the native tribes of the Black Spirit Continent.
• Lin Qi drove the sailors onto one ship and sent them back toward Port Vias, then stored the twenty cargo ships in his World Ring.
• Lin Qi shared what he had learned about the Dark Spirit Empire with Yun, and both considered the opportunities it might present.
• Lin Qi transferred the group to a small sailboat, approached a harbor near Port Vias after dark, and had Elder Qing disguise them before they split between two inns.

Yun and Elder Qing watched Lin Qi as he used his pirate reputation to recruit men and seek buyers for a massive shipment of stolen supplies. Lin Qi set plans in motion to exploit the Golden Rudder Family’s losses, while news of the attack spread through the harbor.

• Yun shattered every raindrop within a li with the Myriad Curse Spirit Eyes, then discussed Lin Qi and the Golden Rudder Family’s troubles with Elder Qing.
• Lin Qi walked through the rain to a sailors’ tavern and threw out a man who tried to take advantage of him.
• Lin Qi used pirate hand signals to make the sailors back down, then paid the tavern owner for help.
• Lin Qi asked the owner to find a buyer for weapons, food, and potions and gather five hundred brave men by the next day.
• The tavern owner learned that the Golden Rudder Family had lost many leaders, soldiers, and warships, and Lin Qi demanded secrecy.
• Dozens of riders spread news of the Golden Rudder Family’s attack throughout the harbor.

Lin Qi recruited several hundred thugs for a dangerous job, using threats, gold, and a brutal example to make them obey. The men accepted him as their boss after Alda revealed his powerful battle energy.

• Lin Qi met the tavern owner outside the city, paid him for gathering five hundred men, and warned him not to betray them.
• Lin Qi killed two bandits who tried to rob him, then entered a clearing full of unruly thugs and women.
• Lin Qi silenced the crowd with a roar and offered the thugs gold to join his expedition or leave with three coins.
• When one man tried to escape with the coins, Bilibili beheaded him, and Lin Qi admitted he had lied about letting anyone leave.
• Alda released his violet-gold battle energy, and the thugs dropped to their knees, pledging to die for Lin Qi.

Lin Qi drugged, outfitted, and recruited five hundred thugs, then led them toward the Golden Rudder Family’s estates near Port Vias. He planned to steal the family’s stored grain and burn the Vias Plain’s crops to force Yun’s father to return, and the chapter ended as they reached the estate gates.

• Lin Qi forced five hundred thugs to take Heart-Corroding Gelsemium, then paid them in gold and promised they could each earn a thousand Vias gold coins.
• Lin Qi gave the thugs armor, clothes, crossbows, swords, and daggers, and they agreed to follow him as brothers.
• Lin Qi led the armed thugs through the mountains toward Port Vias and chose the Golden Rudder Family’s granaries and fields as his targets.
• Lin Qi explained that the destruction would spread news across the continent and force Yun’s father to return, despite the harm it could cause local people.
• Lin Qi planted and marked Annihilation Ghostflame Bombs in the fields as he approached the Golden Rudder Family’s largest estate.
• Lin Qi, Alda, and the thugs arrived at the estate gates after nightfall.

Lin Qi used Alda’s magical sand table and Dreamspell to raid ten Golden Rudder Family manors, stealing their grain and other supplies while destroying livestock and farmland. At dawn, he ignited thousands of ghostflame fires across the Vias Plain and dedicated the destruction to Clausen.

• Alda revealed the manor’s layout and guards with a magical sand table, and Lin Qi put the guards to sleep with Dreamspell.
• Lin Qi led the thugs into the manor, where they killed the guards and looted the estate while he emptied its fifty granaries into spatial rings.
• Lin Qi and the thugs raided ten Golden Rudder Family manors in one night, taking grain, meat, and other supplies and burning livestock they could not carry.
• Lin Qi scattered Annihilation Ghostflame Bombs across farmland belonging to the Golden Rudder Family and other families.
• At dawn, Lin Qi triggered thousands of ghostflame eruptions across the Vias Plain and said the destruction was for Clausen.