[3] He anchored in Da Nang in 1535[4] and later tried to establish a major trading centre at the port village of Fai-Fo (current day Hội An, Vietnam).
It was hoped that António de Faria would be able to create a permanent Portuguese enclave such as those at Macau and Goa; however, this attempt failed, as the trading post never flourished.
Fernão Mendes Pinto and António de Faria, in one situation, wanted to know news from Liampó, "because at that time there was an armada of four hundred junks in which one hundred thousand men went by order of the King of China to arrest the men of ours who used to go there, to burn their ships and villages, because he didn't want them in their land, because he was informed again that they were not as faithful and peaceful people as they had been told before.".
"And, with this fervor and zeal of faith, attacking Coja Acem as one who had good will, he gave him, with a sword that he had, in both hands, such a great gash on the head that, cutting the hat he was wearing, knocked him to the ground.
They were, however, attacked on the way, but the assailants overcame and, in the process, became even more full of goods, and richer, because "it pleased Our Lord that the enemies were thrown into the sea, most of whom were drowned and the reeds were in our power."
The difficulty now was to sell all this loot, because who they had stolen and killed, as they later learned, was a privateer who had a partnership with the Governor of that Province, and to whom he gave a third of all the plunder he took, at least who were warned of the dangers of trading there, since the news of what they had done was already known.
They fled once more and, now on Hainan Island, already in China, they found a way to trade without disembarking, fearful that the news of their deeds had already arrived there, officially justifying themselves with not wanting to pay customs duties.
Leaving the port of Rio Madel, and despite the crew being willing to see the loot shared among themselves, which they already considered sufficient, and return to their homes, António de Faria was still not satisfied.
Eventually, a boat arrived at Ilha dos Piratas, which they robbed, and thus they were able to leave the Island, with the aim of going to "Liampó, which was a port further on from there, to the North, two hundred and sixty leagues, because it could be that along the coast we would improve ourselves from another vessel larger and more accommodated for our purpose".
The next day, they went to a village, "on the other side of the water's edge, and found it emptied of everyone [...] but the houses with all the stuffing of their farms and infinite supplies, of which António de Faria ordered to load".
So that the inhabitants would forget their deeds, they went to "winter the 3 months to an island [...] in the sea of Liampó fifteen leagues", without, however, before that, having fought and won in that combat so much more silver from Japan.
In Liampó (present day Ningbo), where more than a thousand Portuguese lived, they were received with all the pomp and circumstance, heard a sung Mass, "in which an Estêvão Nogueira, who was vicar, preached", a banquet was offered to them and a re-enactment of the episode was performed in which his fifth grandfather, a direct male ascendant, became famous, the famous Mayor (-Mor do Castelo) of Faria, Nuno Gonçalves de Faria.
"It was this island, all enclosed in a circle, with an embankment of jasper ashlar, twenty-six palms high, made of slabs so raw and well laid that the whole wall seemed to be a single piece".
He left a will, in which he donated some personal donations, freed some of his oriental slaves including a female slave and her daughter (possibly his own illegitimate child), paid his debts, asked King Dom João III of Portugal to remunerate him for services rendered and for two boats which he had had arrested in Lisbon, and left all of his few remaining assets to the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Goa.