Chapter Summaries

Xia Ping arrived at his villa and discovered that Su Ji and other influential families’ daughters had become his maids in hopes of winning his favor. Su Ji explained that her family had pressured her to pursue him as a marriage prospect, and the chapter ended with her recalling her mother’s insistence that she marry him.

• Xia Ping entered his villa and found rows of beautiful maids waiting to serve him.
• Feng Wanliang introduced Su Ji as a talented head maid and secretary, and Xia Ping recognized her from Yanhuang University.
• Su Ji told Xia Ping that she had been forced into the job and threatened to fight him if he touched her.
• Su Ji recalled that the Su Family had sent her to get close to Xia Ping because they wanted him as a powerful son-in-law.
• Su Ji remembered her mother urging her to marry Xia Ping and criticizing her unmarried older sister, Su Mei.

Su Ji agreed to go to Giant City as Xia Ping’s maid, while her mother urged her to win him over and warned her about rival women. At Xia Ping’s villa, she became head maid as Feng Wanliang gave Xia Ping the key to the villa’s powerful defense system.

• Mother Su pressured Su Ji to accompany Xia Ping to Giant City as his maid, pursue him, and compete with other women seeking him as a son-in-law.
• Su Ji agreed to go, planning to do her job and later send home false news that Xia Ping was not interested in her.
• Su Ji arrived at Xia Ping’s villa and was quickly promoted to head maid because of her abilities.
• Xia Ping told Su Ji to serve him properly or face punishment, and she nervously addressed him as “Master.”
• Feng Wanliang gave Xia Ping a golden key linked to his genetic information and explained that the villa could teleport him to safety or trap and kill intruders.
• Xia Ping admired the villa’s defenses and went to rest after his journey from Yanhuang University.

Su Ji caught the maids plotting to seduce Xia Ping and discovered they had prepared a dinner packed with virility-boosting ingredients. She ordered them to replace the dishes, though some maids secretly kept the ingredients for another chance.

• The maids gossiped about Su Ji and devised schemes to seduce Xia Ping and have his child.
• Su Ji entered the kitchen and revealed she had heard the maids call her a dead fish in bed.
• Su Ji spotted the virility-boosting ingredients prepared for Xia Ping and angrily confronted the maids.
• Su Ji ordered the maids to remove the ingredients and prepare normal dishes, threatening to fire them if they disobeyed.
• The maids changed the menu, but some secretly kept the suspicious ingredients.

Xia Ping browsed Giant Corporation’s mission postings and chose to hunt Shark Seventeen and the Blood Shark Pirate Crew for their huge bounties and accumulated treasure. Despite a warning that the mission carried an over-eighty-percent death rate, he accepted it, leaving himself three months to complete the hunt.

• Xia Ping reviewed Giant Corporation’s missions and looked for one that would help him explore the Endless Sea.
• Xia Ping read about the Blood Shark Pirate Crew and considered the fortune he could earn by killing its members and claiming their bounties.
• Xia Ping received a warning that hunting Shark Seventeen carried a death rate of over eighty percent.
• Xia Ping accepted the mission, which gave him three months to complete it.

Xia Ping arranged a false identity as Wu Neng and held a press conference to announce that he would livestream the execution of the Blood Shark Pirate Crew within a month. He left the reporters skeptical while publicly presenting himself as a rising crime-fighting hero.

• Feng Wanliang warned Xia Ping that the Blood Shark Pirate Crew was dangerous and difficult to find, but Xia Ping said he would draw them out.
• Xia Ping asked Feng Wanliang to create a plausible false identity so he could keep his real identity hidden.
• Xia Ping told Feng Wanliang to hold a press conference to build momentum for his plan.
• Xia Ping appeared as Wu Neng, announced that he would livestream the Blood Shark Pirate Crew's execution within a month, and promised to sweep pirates from the seas.
• Several hired supporters praised Wu Neng as the reporters watched skeptically, and the host opened the floor to questions.

Xia Ping announced that he would destroy the Blood Shark Pirate Crew and planned to unite its victims in a banquet alliance. When Shark Seventeen heard the news, his adviser urged him to use the gathering to eliminate the victims, and Shark Seventeen agreed.

• Xia Ping told reporters he had chosen the Blood Shark Pirate Crew by spinning a wheel and would rely on strength and a victims’ alliance to defeat them.
• News spread that Xia Ping planned to wipe out the crew within a month and gather its victims to oppose it.
• A pirate brought the news to Shark Seventeen, who dismissed Xia Ping as an inexperienced upstart.
• An adviser suggested the crew use the planned gathering to kill the victims who had opposed them.
• Shark Seventeen approved the plan to leave no survivors.

Xia Ping recruited people with grudges against the Blood Shark Pirate Crew and described a plan to lure the pirates into an ambush. A spy aboard the cruise ship relayed the plan to the pirates, who learned of the trap and resolved to attack the humans first.

• Xia Ping told his passengers they would pose as a cruise ship carrying Spirit Liquid to lure the Blood Shark Pirate Crew into an ambush by hidden Grandmasters.
• Xia Ping said he could use up to a hundred ships to ensure the pirates eventually took the bait, winning the passengers' approval.
• A Blood Shark Pirate Crew spy aboard the cruise ship covertly transmitted footage of Xia Ping's plan to the pirates.
• The Blood Shark Pirate Crew officers watched the footage and realized the humans planned to ambush and destroy them.
• Shark Seventeen ordered the pirates to kill the humans and make an example of them.

The Blood Shark Pirate Crew ambushed the cruise ship, disabled its engine, and surrounded the passengers, who had gathered to oppose them. Shark Seventeen confronted Xia Ping and began brutalizing an old man as the helpless passengers watched.

• A sailor warned Xia Ping and the others that the Blood Shark Pirate Crew had appeared through a bank of fog only a few miles away.
• The pirates destroyed the cruise ship’s engine, leaving it unable to escape, then boarded and took control of the ship.
• Shark Seventeen accused Xia Ping, also called Wu Neng, of disrupting the Endless Sea and declared that he would kill the humans aboard.
• An old man challenged Shark Seventeen, who struck him down and repeatedly stomped on him while the passengers watched in despair.

Xia Ping protected the people aboard the ship and challenged Shark Seventeen, defeating him with a single strike of the Immovable Tathagata Palm. Shark Seventeen rose from the wreckage, furious and ready to continue fighting.

• A girl stepped forward to stop the pirates from harming an old man, and Shark Seventeen threatened her.
• Xia Ping blocked Shark Seventeen's attack and warned him not to terrorize people on his turf.
• Shark Seventeen attacked Xia Ping with the Shark Race's king-level martial art, Wild Shark Eighteen Forms.
• Xia Ping countered with the Immovable Tathagata Palm and sent Shark Seventeen crashing into the ship's cabin.
• Shark Seventeen climbed out of the debris, bloodshot-eyed and enraged.

Xia Ping overwhelmed Shark Seventeen with rapid punches, then used No-Beat Palm to penetrate the pirate captain’s defenses and leave him near death. As Xia Ping moved to finish him, the Blood Shark Pirate Crew rushed in to stop him.

• Xia Ping used Kunpeng Step to reach Shark Seventeen and battered him with a barrage of punches.
• Shark Seventeen explained that his fat absorbed ordinary attacks and that his body could heal minor wounds quickly.
• Xia Ping struck Shark Seventeen with No-Beat Palm, sending fused hard and soft forces through his body and gravely damaging his organs.
• Xia Ping moved to kill the wounded Shark Seventeen, but the pirates charged at him to protect their captain.

Xia Ping used the Soul-Absorbing Bell to incapacitate the Blood Shark Pirate Crew as its four senior officers attacked him together. The humans seized the opening to slaughter the pirates, while Shark Seventeen woke first and saw his crew being wiped out.

• Eel Five, Arrow Seven, Octopus Nine, and Crab Eighteen joined forces to attack Xia Ping, while Shark Seventeen celebrated their intervention.
• Xia Ping activated the Soul-Absorbing Bell and stunned the four officers and the watching pirates without affecting the humans.
• Xia Ping urged the humans to strike, and they attacked the helpless pirates to avenge their loved ones.
• Shark Seventeen overcame the bell's effect and woke to find more than half his subordinates dead.

Xia Ping killed four high-ranking Blood Shark Pirate officers, and the humans realized the pirates had walked into his trap. Shark Seventeen escaped into the sea, so Xia Ping led the group to attack the remaining pirates aboard their ship.

• Xia Ping pierced the hearts of Eel Five, Arrow Seven, Octopus Nine, and Crab Eighteen with the Spear of Hell.
• Shark Seventeen realized the Blood Shark Pirate Crew had fallen into Xia Ping's trap and vowed revenge.
• Shark Seventeen threw an Ink Bomb, used the cover to leap into the sea, and escaped.
• Xia Ping told the humans to kill the pirates remaining on the other ship rather than let Shark Seventeen rebuild his crew.
• Xia Ping led the group onto the pirate ship to attack the pirates who did not know their captain had fled.

Xia Ping led the humans in attacking Shark Seventeen’s pirate ship, using the Soul-Absorbing Bell to incapacitate the crew before they killed everyone aboard. He absorbed the dead fishmen’s soul energy as the badly injured Shark Seventeen escaped into the deep sea, vowing to kill him the next time they met.

• Xia Ping and the human elites boarded the pirate ship, where the remaining pirates realized their captain and senior officers were missing.
• Xia Ping unleashed a psychic storm with the Soul-Absorbing Bell, leaving the pirates incapacitated or unconscious.
• The humans killed every pirate aboard the ship without losing anyone.
• Xia Ping absorbed and refined the dead fishmen’s scattered soul energy, strengthening his soul power.
• Shark Seventeen saw his burning ship, blamed Wu Neng for his crew’s defeat, and fled into the deep sea after promising revenge.

After defeating the pirates, Xia Ping left to hunt Shark Seventeen and claim the Blood Shark Pirate Crew’s hidden treasure. Meanwhile, Zhang Zi'ang, Chen Boning, and their Sin Army comrades headed toward the pirates’ lair, unaware that Xia Ping was pursuing the same target.

• The survivors thanked Xia Ping for defeating the pirates, and he said he would track down Shark Seventeen.
• Xia Ping boarded the concealed Moon Goddess warship and departed to pursue Shark Seventeen, leaving the survivors the captured pirate ship.
• Zhang Zi'ang led more than twenty Sin Army Grandmasters toward the Mist Islands after learning the Blood Shark Pirate Crew’s lair location from a captured member.
• The Sin Army members discussed the merit they could earn by wiping out the crew, while Zhang Zi'ang warned that the reward would not be enough to free them from service.
• Chen Boning cautioned that the Blood Shark Pirate Crew’s traps and powerful forces could make an attack on its lair dangerous.

Zhang Zi'ang planned to poison the Blood Shark Pirate Crew and embezzle its treasure, hoping to use the resources to escape the dangers of the Sin Army. The squad headed for the pirates' lair while Chen Boning and Sha Senlin fumed about Xia Ping, who was also in the Endless Sea.

• Zhang Zi'ang revealed a bottle of jellyfish poison and proposed secretly poisoning the pirates' water supply before attacking.
• Chen Boning looked forward to claiming the pirates' riches, but Sha Senlin reminded the squad that their explosive collars would kill them if they escaped.
• Zhang Zi'ang proposed hiding most of the treasure from the Sin Army by falsifying how much they found or claiming it was destroyed.
• Chen Boning and Sha Senlin blamed Xia Ping for their predicament and resented his success, while Zhang Zi'ang dismissed his chances of reaching the King Realm.
• Zhang Zi'ang directed the squad toward the Blood Shark Pirate Crew's lair, and their warship sped off.

Xia Ping redeemed and cultivated the fourth levels of the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art and the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art, strengthening his defenses, assassination techniques, and cultivation. After a night of training, he tracked Shark Seventeen to a fog-shrouded sea maze and prepared to pursue it.

• Xia Ping spent forty million Hate Points to redeem the fourth levels of the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art and the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art.
• Xia Ping discovered that the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art could devour and refine attacks, while the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art let him launch silent, nearly invisible strikes.
• Xia Ping cultivated through the night, absorbed vast amounts of energy, and opened two or three acupoints as his strength and mental power increased.
• Xia Ping set out to track Shark Seventeen and followed its scent across the sea.
• Xia Ping reached a region of black mist, reefs, and maze-like islands that could trap anyone unfamiliar with its waters.

Xia Ping tracked Shark Seventeen to the hidden Blood Shark Island and broke through its natural illusion formation. After wiping out the pirates guarding the island, he faced Shark Seventeen.

• Xia Ping used the Golden Crow Eye to see through the Mist Islands and locate the formation concealing Blood Shark Island.
• Xia Ping shattered the formation and entered the island, alerting the Blood Shark Pirate Crew.
• Hundreds of pirates surrounded Xia Ping, but his Soul-Absorbing Bell incapacitated them with a spiritual shockwave.
• Xia Ping attacked the helpless pirates with black Fireball Bombs, killing or severely injuring them.
• Shark Seventeen leaped from the palace and confronted Xia Ping in a rage.

Xia Ping confronted Shark Seventeen on Blood Shark Island, where Shark Seventeen used the Blood Fiend Flag against him. Xia Ping absorbed the flag’s blood-fiend energy to strengthen himself, and Shark Seventeen fled.

• Shark Seventeen was shocked that Xia Ping had found Blood Shark Island, and Xia Ping told him he would die that day.
• Shark Seventeen unleashed the Blood Fiend Flag, filling the area with corrosive blood-fiend energy.
• Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to swallow and refine the energy, breaking through another acupoint.
• Shark Seventeen realized the flag was strengthening Xia Ping, put it away, and fled at high speed.

Xia Ping killed Shark Seventeen with a dagger formed from his protective qi and took the pirate captain’s head and Blood Fiend Flag as proof and spoils. A new group of Grandmasters arrived, attacked Xia Ping, and clashed with him over the treasure.

• Shark Seventeen vowed to take revenge on Xia Ping and tried to escape with the Blood Fiend Flag.
• Xia Ping used the Nail-Head Seven Arrows Art to hurl a silent dagger that pierced Shark Seventeen and exploded, killing him.
• Xia Ping collected the Blood Fiend Flag and Shark Seventeen’s head to prove he had completed his mission.
• A group of Grandmasters arrived, demanded the Blood Fiend Flag, and attacked Xia Ping to seize the treasure.
• Xia Ping struck back with his protective qi, and the clash sent both sides reeling.

Xia Ping confronted the Sin Army members who had ambushed him on Blood Shark Island and learned that Zhang Zi'ang and other former Core Students were among them. The soldiers declared their intention to kill him and avenge their past grievances.

• Zhang Zi'ang recognized Xia Ping and revealed that he was one of the Core Students Xia Ping had sent into the Sin Army.
• Xia Ping mocked Zhang Zi'ang for surviving the Sin Army and demanded compensation for the ambush and attempted robbery.
• Chen Boning accused Xia Ping of arrogance, while Zhang Zi'ang threatened to kill him despite his Grandmaster cultivation.
• Chen Boning said the isolated island would let them kill Xia Ping without consequences, and Sha Senlin vowed to grind his bones to dust.