Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi answered Feng Klaur’s thousand-man duel by summoning overwhelming forces into the Yun Clan drill ground. Feng Klaur saw that his side had no chance of victory as Lin Qi gave him the first move.

• Feng Klaur agreed to a no-rules thousand-man duel, and the Yun Clan ancestors sealed the drill ground behind layers of magical barriers.
• Lin Qi summoned Barrel, a towering dwarf king whose strength and strategic value astonished the Yun Clan.
• Lin Qi brought in one hundred powerful fighters, including ninety-five peak or near-peak Saint Masters and five formidable evil ghost experts.
• Lin Qi summoned a thousand first-generation Dragon Demon War Ghosts mounted on abyssal earth dragons, leaving Feng Klaur and his collateral clan members despairing.
• Lin Qi bowed to Feng Klaur and granted him the right to attack first.

Lin Qi unleashed an overwhelming force against the Yun Clan’s collateral members, turning the supposed duel into a one-sided massacre. The chapter ended with the clan’s elite younger generation nearly wiped out and the Yun Clan’s ancestors facing the destruction of their forces.

• The Yun Clan members froze when Lin Qi revealed five Illuminators, ninety-five peak Saint Masters, and thousands of powerful troops and beasts.
• The evil ghosts declined to fight, while one of them killed Feng Klaur after he tried to speak.
• Lin Qi declared the duel underway and ordered Xuan Lan and his forces to slaughter the Yun Clan members.
• Xuan Lan devoured fallen enemies as the War Ghost riders charged through the Yun Clan’s ranks and pursued those who fled.
• The War Ghost riders fired magical crossbows at the Yun Clan’s airborne Saint-realm fighters, allowing Lin Qi’s peak Saint Masters to attack and kill them.
• The battle left the Yun Clan’s collateral elite nearly annihilated, with survivors collapsing in terror.

Lin Qi struggled to send the Dragon Demon War Ghosts, Xuan Lan, and five powerful demons back through the magic formation while the demons and Yun family ancestors faced off. After the five demons and the others departed, the Yun family ancestors summoned Lin Qi to accompany them.

• Xuan Lan and the Dragon Demon War Ghosts watched the Yun Clan members from behind the barrier, eager to continue slaughtering and eating.
• Lin Qi urged the five demons to return to the abyss as they glared at the Yun family ancestors, who warned that a fight would endanger their clan.
• The Flame Demon challenged the Yun family ancestors to a fight, but they refused to risk exposing the Yun Clan to the Church.
• The Cloud Demon confronted Lin Qi about controlling their descendants, and the Flame Demon explained that the five demons supported the Abyss Covenant and wanted to return to the surface.
• The Crocodile Demon struck the barrier and exchanged a powerful blow with the Yun family ancestors, then declared that Lin Qi was under the demons' protection.
• Lin Qi activated the magic transmission formation, and the five demons and the others departed; the Yun family ancestors then invited Lin Qi to go with them.

Cloud Emperor explained the Yun Clan’s hidden history and the extraordinary purity of Yun’s bloodline to Lin Qi, then recounted why Yun had been taken to Dunkirk as an infant. He left Lin Qi with the revelation that the Black Tiger Family would not have helped Yun Qing without Yun’s presence.

• Cloud Emperor served Lin Qi Spring of Life tea brewed with rare Cloud Mist Monkey Brow, and both drank it for its powerful benefits.
• Cloud Emperor revealed that he was the last crown prince of the Sacred Dragon Court Empire and said the Yun Clan had rebuilt itself through mixed-blood descendants after its survivors fled south.
• Cloud Emperor explained that Yun had an exceptionally pure ancestral bloodline and had been considered his clan’s rightful heir despite being female.
• Cloud Emperor recounted how a commercial war blocked the Yun Clan from obtaining medicinal herbs, so Elder Yun Qing took the infant Yun to Dunkirk to buy them through the Black Tiger Family.
• Cloud Emperor said the Black Tiger Family would not have aided Yun Qing had he traveled without Yun, leaving Lin Qi baffled by the explanation.

The Yun Emperor explained how his branch of the Yun Clan had split from the Yunlong Clan and survived the Church’s destruction of the Sacred Dragon Court Empire with help from other clans. After Lin Qi challenged him over Yun’s disappearance and the clan’s treatment of her, the Yun Emperor offered to make her clan head and let Lin Qi marry her in exchange for peace and Yun-surnamed children.

• The Yun Emperor recounted how his ancestor left the Yunlong Clan, founded the Sacred Dragon Court Empire, and was rescued from the Church’s attack by the Yunlong Clan, the Black Tiger Family, and other clans.
• The Yun Emperor revealed that the Black Tiger Clan of Dunkirk was a branch of the true Tiger Clan, valued by the other families for its ability to produce descendants.
• The Yun Emperor explained that he had sent Yun and Elder Qing to Dunkirk for help, then said he could not investigate their disappearance after every lead was silenced and Yun’s relatives seized her inheritance.
• The Yun Emperor rebuked Lin Qi for killing hundreds of his descendants, and Lin Qi fell silent when he realized the dead were the Yun Emperor’s own family.
• The Yun Emperor offered to make Yun the Yun Clan’s first female clan head and let Lin Qi marry her, provided Lin Qi stopped interfering and half their children took the Yun surname.
• Lin Qi asked what would happen if someone came after him, and the Yun Emperor promised to tear them apart before agreeing to Lin Qi’s deal.

A talking donkey arrived in New Dunkirk Port to find Lin Qi, while hoping to win over the owner of a residence by the sight of a woman’s brassiere. It let the resident mistake it for a stray work animal and was taken inside.

• New Dunkirk Port was introduced as a heavily guarded, prosperous harbor rebuilt after the Falling Star Calamity.
• The donkey complained about being sent by Blackbeard to meet Lin Qi, then became distracted by a pink brassiere hanging from a nearby residence.
• The donkey used Blackbeard’s Star Locator Compass and found that Lin Qi was in the Vias Commercial Federation and had gained Heaven-rank battle qi and magic power.
• The donkey said Lin Qi needed to return soon so it could teach him the rest of his family’s cultivation techniques.
• The donkey rammed into a residence’s gate, and a middle-aged man seized it as a valuable stray work animal and dragged it inside.

Lin Qi returned to the Yun Clan under close watch and joined the gathering where the clan was transferring the properties lost in the wager. He then prepared to collect his separate bet from the clan elders, leaving them anxious about what his ring contained.

• Lin Qi returned to Yun Territory, joked about the elders watching him, and repelled a spiritual probe with the Soul Protection Grand Blessing Art.
• Jiazi escorted Lin Qi to the Divine Dragon Hall, where Yun Xiaolan and Yun Canglong oversaw the transfer of the wagered properties.
• Yun asked Lin Qi what the ancestor had said, and Lin Qi reminded Yun Xiaoming and the other bigwigs that they had also lost a bet to him.
• Yun Xiaotong demanded to see Lin Qi's stake, while the Yun Clan elders grew worried about the powerful forces Lin Qi had summoned for the duel.
• Lin Qi accepted the World Ring from Suanni and proposed settling its contents one by one, then promised Yun thirty percent of his winnings as her dowry.

Lin Qi revealed the enormous capacity of his Imitation World Rings by producing ten thousand chests of silver ingots, forcing Yun Xiaoming and the other elders to pay their wager in real gold. After they supplied four hundred chests of gold, Lin Qi produced another ten thousand chests, this time filled with gold ingots, leaving the hall stunned.

• Lin Qi dropped an oak chest of silver ingots from his Imitation World Ring and insisted that the chest itself counted toward the wager.
• Lin Qi filled nearly a third of the Divine Dragon Hall with ten thousand chests of silver ingots, whose value was estimated at nearly one hundred million gold coins.
• Yun Xiaoming offered gold notes, but Lin Qi, Yun Canglong, and Yun Xiaolan rejected the clan-bank notes and demanded real gold and silver.
• Yun Xiaotong arranged for four hundred chests of gold ingots to be brought in, and Lin Qi stored the silver and gold chests in another Imitation World Ring.
• Yun Xiao Yun urged Lin Qi to reveal more, and Lin Qi produced ten thousand additional chests that contained gold ingots, stunning everyone in the hall.

Lin Qi demanded payment from the Yun Clan elders after winning their wager, first presenting gold and then revealing a vast hoard of gemstones. The elders paid with gold and Crystal Blue Gold, but the chapter ended as Lin Qi unveiled ten thousand chests of jewels worth far more.

• Lin Qi offered ten thousand chests of gold ingots and demanded payment in gold or silver at a steep exchange rate.
• Yun Xiaomeng tried to attack Lin Qi, but formation disks and a mental assault stopped him as the Yun Clan ancestors enforced the wager.
• Yun Xiaoming and the other elders gathered three thousand chests of gold ingots and seven chests of Crystal Blue Gold within an hour.
• Lin Qi stored the payment and then revealed ten thousand smaller chests filled with gemstones, leaving Yun Xiaoming and the others stunned by their immense value.

Lin Qi forced the Yun Clan to settle his enormous gambling debt with bluegold and magic metals, then revealed another ten thousand chests of rare abyssal magicgold. The Yun Clan’s elders faced further losses as Yun Canglong exposed their hidden holdings in the Black Spirit Empire.

• Lin Qi valued his ten thousand chests of gemstones at one hundred thousand chests of gold and used a Spatial Annihilation Bomb to discourage the Yun Clan from refusing payment.
• Yun Xiaoming and the other Yun Clan members spent ten hours gathering fifty chests of bluegold and three crates of magic metals to settle the debt.
• Yun Xiaokong questioned Lin Qi about his World Ring, and Lin Qi asked how much more wealth the Yun Clan could produce.
• Yun Canglong revealed that Yun Clan elders held secret shares in the Black Spirit Empire, including stakes in a major Blazing Flame Softgold Mine.
• Lin Qi produced another ten thousand chests, each containing abyssal magicgold ingots, and Yun Xiaoming and more than thirty Yun Clan members spat blood in shock.

Lin Qi revealed vast stores of magical metals, including a huge cache of Heavenfall Abyssal Gold, leaving the Yun Clan stunned by the scale of his winnings. The Cloud Emperor made Lin Qi a core clan member and family steward elder, and Lin Qi demanded full repayment of his stakes within a day before revealing another mountain of scrolls.

• Lin Qi displayed ten thousand chests of magical metals, including ten chests of Heavenfall Abyssal Gold, and Yun Xiaoming and the others realized the debt was beyond their means.
• Yun Xiaolan warned that the Yun Clan would not default, while the Cloud Emperor arrived and tested an ingot of Heavenfall Abyssal Gold.
• Lin Qi produced another twenty-seven chests of Heavenfall Abyssal Gold, prompting the Cloud Emperor to name him a core member, appoint him family steward elder, and give him command of a Dragon Guard unit.
• Lin Qi offered the gold as a filial gift in exchange for the right to choose one item from whatever the Yun Clan forged, and the Cloud Emperor promised his stakes would be repaid within a day.
• Lin Qi revealed tens of thousands of Magic Beast-hide scrolls as more stakes and asked the Cloud Emperor to uphold justice for him.

Lin Qi revealed that his wager was backed by deeds to immense wealth and slave contracts across the Fifth Abyss, leaving the Yun Clan elders unable to pay their gambling debt. The Cloud Emperor ordered them to surrender their assets or sell themselves to Lin Qi, while Yun Canglong offered to buy the contracts and pressed Lin Qi about marrying Yun.

• The Cloud Emperor examined Lin Qi’s scroll and ordered Yun Xiaoming and the other elders to repay their gambling debt within one day or sign soul contracts selling themselves to Lin Qi.
• Yun Xiaoming read the deed to Black Desert City and learned that Lin Qi had acquired it when Long Ennan sold himself to repay a debt.
• Lin Qi showed the elders deeds and slave contracts covering cities, mines, families, and vast populations throughout the Fifth Abyss.
• Lin Qi revealed 127 maps of safe trade routes to eighteen abyssal worlds and priced them at 300 million gold coins each, prompting the elders to admit they could not pay.
• Lin Qi demanded all the elders’ property except 100,000 gold coins each, and Yun Canglong agreed to buy their contracts for cash before asking when Lin Qi and Yun would marry.

After his enormous gamble left him and Yun Canglong with control of vast fortunes, Lin Qi sailed toward Port Vias while reflecting on the divine weapon he had commissioned. Yun Canglong warned him that Clausen had left a strange threat aimed at him, and Lin Qi prepared to face the danger without help from the Yun Family.

• Lin Qi and Yun Canglong left the undersea Yun Territory and boarded a ship bound for Port Vias.
• Lin Qi lamented selling Yun Canglong the seized industries below market value, while counting on the Cloud Emperor to forge him an ultra-heavy divine artifact from the Heavenfall Abyss Gold.
• Yun Canglong discussed Yun's recovery and suggested Lin Qi marry her in five years; Lin Qi agreed and demanded a substantial dowry.
• Yun Canglong warned Lin Qi that Clausen had said something ominous about him before Yun Canglong executed Clausen and the others.
• Lin Qi refused Yun Family escorts because he had offended its other branches and said he would rely on his own people.

Lin Qi arranged passage to Dunkirk aboard an Eastern merchant fleet, while considering how to avoid the Yun Clan’s threats. He planned to leave Port Vias with a conspicuous feint and let the powerful Eastern merchants provide cover.

• Bilibili woke the four abyssal centaurs and drove them around the hotel stable after warning off the attendants.
• Lin Qi spotted the enormous Eastern merchant ships arriving at Port Vias and flew to meet their merchants.
• Lin Qi asked the leading merchant for passage to Dunkirk, and the merchant offered free passage departing in three days.
• The merchant ordered his crew to unload Eastern goods for trade in Port Vias before the fleet continued west.
• Lin Qi dismissed the Yun Clan’s plans against him and considered using the Eastern fleet’s protection as he returned to Dunkirk.

Lin Qi left Port Vias after punishing the Coral Flower Hotel for selling information about him, then boarded a ship with Bilibili, Alda, and four cloaked companions. At dawn, their fleet sailed west toward Caesar Imperial City Doderlin.

• Lin Qi confronted the Coral Flower Hotel manager, demonstrated his power, and left without paying his bills.
• Bilibili drove the flying carriage out of Port Vias, and Lin Qi passed Merome, whom he had tasked with building influence and finding talent for him.
• Alda joined the carriage and bragged about earning eight million six hundred thousand gold coins after sleeping with forty-three women, including the High Governor's wife and daughter.
• Lin Qi kicked Alda out of the carriage, then used black firelines to destroy the scouts pursuing them across the Vias Plain.
• Lin Qi, Bilibili, Alda, and four companions boarded the ship they had arranged, and the fleet departed Port Vias at dawn.

A youth who was the Cloud Emperor’s twin brother plotted from a secret passage beneath Pearl City, seeking to kill Lin Qi and seize his spatial rings. He ordered his agents to manipulate Yun Xiaoming’s group and target Yun Xiao Yun while concealing his survival from the Cloud Emperor.

• The masked man told the youth that Lin Qi’s scouts had all been killed and they did not know which route Lin Qi had taken.
• The youth ordered the scout’s superior to take a Mind-Obliterating Pill, then sent more men to find and kill Lin Qi for his spatial rings.
• The youth revealed that the Cloud Emperor’s punch had wounded him but had not killed him, and said he wanted to lead the Yun Family instead.
• The youth ordered his agents to coordinate with Du Wen, monitor the Cloud Emperor’s descendants, and kill Yun Xiao Yun.
• The youth told the masked man to make Yun Xiaoming’s group appear before Lin Qi, then either silence them or frame them depending on the outcome.

Lin Qi used the Yun Clan’s Blood Sea Ointment to expand and strengthen his blood sea through nine days and nights of agonizing cultivation. After his blood vitality transformed, he learned the ship was nearing the Acacia Family’s Pearl of the Blue Sea and prepared to meet its owner.

• Lin Qi examined the Seven Wheels Pills and Three Seas Ointment Yun Canglong had given him, then swallowed the Blood Sea Ointment.
• Lin Qi endured the ointment’s violent effects as it repeatedly expanded and reinforced his blood sea, consuming medicines and food to sustain the process.
• After nine days and nights, Lin Qi exhausted the ointment’s effects and found his blood compressed into a powerful, mercury-like golden-red fluid.
• Lin Qi left his ruined bedroom and learned from a black-cloaked man that pirate attacks had delayed the ship and that it was nearing the Pearl of the Blue Sea.
• Lin Qi decided it was time to greet the ship’s owner.

Lin Qi met Xiong Wanjin, a wealthy Eastern sea merchant whose fleet had survived three pirate attacks with help from Lin Qi’s servants. After Lin Qi questioned how the attacks had unfolded, Xiong Wanjin realized the pirates were likely part of a plot arranged by people who had forced him onto the voyage, and revealed that the bands had included nearly a hundred Heaven-rank fighters.

• Lin Qi saw the wounded sailors being healed with a powerful ointment and met the fat merchant Xiong Wanjin after Alda and Bilibili helped defeat the pirates.
• Xiong Wanjin thanked Lin Qi for his servants’ aid, explained his family’s wealth and connections, and hosted a banquet in Lin Qi’s honor.
• Lin Qi questioned Xiong Wanjin about the three pirate bands that had attacked the fleet one after another and warned that such powerful groups were unusual in Western waters.
• Xiong Wanjin realized someone had forced him to take the voyage and said the three bands had nearly a hundred Heaven-rank fighters among them.
• Lin Qi was shocked by the scale of the threat and considered leaving the fleet to travel overland.

Lin Qi and Xiong Wanjin’s fleet were intercepted by the Harlan Empire navy near Pearl City, after earlier pirate attacks revealed a plot against Xiong. Lin Qi ordered the fleet to smash through the blockade and attacked the approaching officers as Acacia Family forces appeared.

• Xiong Wanjin tightened his fleet’s formation and prepared hidden weapons after three pirate bands attacked his ships.
• Lin Qi suspected the attacks were connected to Pearl City and the Acacia Family as the fleet neared their territory.
• The Harlan Empire navy signaled Xiong Wanjin to stop for inspection, and he realized the interception was likely part of his family’s attempt to harm him.
• Lin Qi revealed Jiawu and his three mage disciples, then promised Xiong Wanjin a secret route across the Odin Icefield in exchange for passage to Dunkirk.
• Xiong Wanjin gave Lin Qi his cargo and a Xiong Family token, and their seven ships charged through the navy’s formation, crushing more than thirty warships.
• Acacia Family fighters joined the surviving naval officers in attacking the flagship, and Lin Qi hurled black fireballs at them.

Chief Steward Wei and Manager Yun watched Xiong Wanjin’s fleet battle the Harlan Empire navy, but Lin Qi’s devastating magic strike turned the fight against their attackers. After Manager Yun discovered Lin Qi aboard the ship, the Acacia Family mobilized its hidden fleet and forces to capture him and seize his treasures.

• Chief Steward Wei demanded that Manager Yun’s Acacia Family kill Xiong Wanjin, while Manager Yun objected that the agreed payment had already been made.
• Lin Qi unleashed dozens of Hellfire Chain Fireballs, killing or scattering the Heaven-rank attackers and wrecking many Harlan Empire warships.
• Manager Yun spotted Lin Qi in the water mirror and sent a message alerting the Acacia Family to his location.
• The Acacia Family launched twenty-five magic-powered warships carrying twelve Saint-realm experts, one thousand Heaven-rank warriors, and thousands of sailors and marines toward Lin Qi’s fleet.
• A black-clad young man ordered the Acacia Family fleet to kill everyone, especially Lin Qi, while hundreds of flying pythons carried more elites toward the battle.