Recaps

Xia Nan joined the Black Gull’s voyage, defeated a pirate crew, and followed a trail on Sheer Cliff Island that led to a deadly Shark Beast. After returning to Barracuda Bay with valuable spoils, he arranged to pursue the Moon Tide Feast and have the beast’s materials assessed.

• Xia Nan and Alton joined the Black Gull, where they met Colin, Captain Gregory, and the hostile Silver Claw Osprey team.
• Pirates attacked the Black Gull, but Xia Nan and the crew defeated them, and Xia Nan claimed the captured Flying Fish Oil Drum and a share of the spoils.
• On Sheer Cliff Island, Xia Nan investigated Morton’s history while Colin and the Silver Claw Osprey team followed a Monster’s trail toward the reefs.
• Xia Nan and the others found Guka dead in a sea cave and fought a Shark Beast that killed Laida and Nick before Xia Nan and Alton brought it down.
• Xia Nan and Alton returned to the village with the Shark Beast and the fallen adventurers, and the villagers held a feast and buried the dead.
• Back in Barracuda Bay, Xia Nan greeted Hera, arranged a channel to the Moon Tide Feast, and discussed selling equipment and appraising the Shark Beast’s materials.
• Xia Nan visited the recommended tailor shop Pearl Spinning to ask about the Shark Beast’s skin and entered as a noble father and daughter discussed banquet formalwear.

Xia Nan helped find Baron Faro’s kidnapped daughter, destroyed the Shark Gang, and earned a fearsome reputation in Barracuda Bay. He secured a place at the Moon Tide Feast and pursued leads connected to the Twin Ocean, while arranging to refurbish his own ship.

• Xia Nan brought the Shark Beast materials and damaged [Purgatory Pulse] to Selianne, sold her the weapon and a Shahua Merman staff, and arranged plans for custom armor.
• Xia Nan sold the [Azure Wave Blade] and [Practice Staff], then learned Baron Faro’s daughter Ellie had disappeared and recognized her portrait from the tailor shop.
• Xia Nan and Hain questioned Jerry, who revealed that the Shark Gang had abducted a young woman and taken her toward Breaking Waves Wharf.
• Xia Nan and Hain joined Raine, Gordon, and Alton to investigate, learned Ellie’s disappearance details from Baron Faro, and received authority to search for her.
• After Jerry was murdered, Hain tracked the killer’s trail to the Shark Gang’s hidden base, where Xia Nan and his companions attacked and killed Ralo and the gang members.
• Xia Nan pursued Barty across the sea and killed him, then reunited Ellie with Baron Faro and earned the title “Sea Fang.”
• Lorraine offered Xia Nan a temporary position with the Oath of Vengeance Blades and a place at the Moon Tide Feast, and Xia Nan accepted.
• Xia Nan sold the [Tidal Surge Lure Rod], accepted Ellison’s commission to investigate the Twin Ocean, and asked Baron Faro to fund his ship’s refurbishment instead of giving him a new vessel.

Xia Nan joined the Oath of Vengeance Blades on its voyage to Twin Ocean, where strange shark attacks and a mind-warping Secret Realm led the crew into battle with a powerful Shark Beast. The fight left Aken and Sasha unconscious, with Xia Nan and the remaining fighters facing the monster with their resources nearly spent.

• Xia Nan and Alton boarded the Oath of Vengeance Blades, and Lorraine revealed that the crew was sailing to Twin Ocean to investigate a problem reported by the Islanders of Twin Canyon.
• A storm and thousands of Scorched-Neck Swirltooth Sharks battered the ship, but Hain’s Rapid Vine Shell helped the crew survive and reach Rabbit Island for repairs.
• Lorraine, Hain, and Xia Nan found the Shahua Mermen sacrificing villagers, and Xia Nan helped defeat the priest and elite guards before the crew resumed its voyage.
• At Twin Canyon, Lorraine and the others found deserted homes, strange structures embedded in the cliffs, and signs that the Islanders and mermen had fought one another.
• Shahua Mermen attacked the ship, and Xia Nan plunged into the water to kill the attackers before joining Lorraine’s group to investigate the ruins.
• The group discovered piles of dead mermen and Islanders beside a fused altar and operating room, where a huge Shark Beast with a human body attached emerged from a pool.
• Xia Nan and the squad fought the Shark Beast and targeted its fused human body, which Xia Nan crushed after Hain immobilized it, but the monster kept attacking.
• The Shark Beast struck Aken unconscious and caught Sasha after Xia Nan used Gravity Etching to save him from a fatal blow, leaving four fighters with only two Gravity Etching charges.

Xia Nan and the Oath of Vengeance Blades survived the Shark Beast battle, claimed a strange pocket watch, and returned to Barracuda Bay, where he obtained new armor and took a mission from collector Auriye. The mission brought Xia Nan to Wildberry Cliff with the Iron Rock Shield Squad, where he found captured civilians and learned Murlocs were involved.

• Xia Nan killed the Shark Beast and stabilized his injured comrades, then claimed the Secret Realm Core and experienced Mand’s disturbing investigation into Old Mark’s visions before finding Adonis Pope’s pocket watch.
• Xia Nan returned to Barracuda Bay with the squad, warned Lorraine that the Shark Beast’s human remains were dangerous, and acquired the [White Pot], a pocket watch that stored items in separate spaces.
• Xia Nan collected [Abyssal Flow] from Selianne and spoke with Ellison, who explained his search for his missing father and his connection to Lorraine.
• Xia Nan met collector Auriye Silverheart, who bought the squad’s surgical bed and showed him a bracelet called [Proof of Unweariedness] with hidden training benefits.
• Auriye offered to discuss the bracelet’s price if Xia Nan recovered a stolen shipment and taught the Tide Retreat Gang and its pirate associates a lesson, and Xia Nan accepted.
• Xia Nan traveled to Wildberry Cliff with the Iron Rock Shield Squad, and the group infiltrated the pirate base through an underground entrance.
• Xia Nan found nineteen injured and starving civilians imprisoned underground, freed them, and heard a young prisoner warn him about the Murlocs.