Recaps

Xia Nan completed Auriye’s mission by destroying the Tide Retreat Gang and rescuing its captives, but the Shahua Mermen resurfaced as a threat during the voyage to the Moon Tide Feast. As the Oath of Vengeance Blades fought a Windseed Octopus and the Mermen, Xia Nan searched for their remaining priest while an unseen force helped save Sarisa.

• Xia Nan and the Iron Rock Shield Squad found Auriye’s stolen goods, but the Shahua Mermen and Geli ambushed them, killing Agu, Haoge, Habik, and Seli before Xia Nan killed the priest, Geli, and the remaining attackers.
• Xia Nan rescued the captured Islanders, returned Auriye’s three crates, and exchanged the recovered enchanted equipment with Auriye for the Proof of Unweariedness.
• Xia Nan trained Heavy Tide and prepared for the Moon Tide Feast, then sailed with Lorraine and the Oath of Vengeance Blades while the Black Tide Hunter crew headed into a storm to hunt a Windseed Octopus.
• After the Black Tide Hunter was wrecked, Xia Nan and Lorraine rescued Sarisa, who explained that Shahua Mermen had ambushed her fleet and taken her companions’ bodies.
• A Windseed Octopus and Shahua Mermen attacked a merchant ship near the Oath of Vengeance Blades, forcing Lorraine’s crew to fight while Xia Nan targeted the Merman Priests.
• Xia Nan killed one priest and freed Aken to strike the Windseed Octopus, while another priest attacked Sarisa and an invisible force pulled her clear of its harpoon.
• A Ferocious Wolf Beast charged the Mermen attacking the ship, and an Ochre Red Arc killed several of them as Xia Nan continued searching for the remaining priest.

After Xia Nan found the [Dreamweaver Corridor] Key on Stodd Island, Algae Scale Dodd’s ritual pulled him and ninety-nine other adventurers into a Secret Realm in animal bodies. Xia Nan evolved into a Temple Night-Stalker Wolf and began hunting for other adventurers as the shrinking realm brought them together.

• Xia Nan killed the Windseed Octopus, helped clear the remaining murlocs, and learned the fleet had found a chest of Deep Sea Resonance Stones.
• Xia Nan joined Alton, Sasha, and Ellison on Stodd Island to compete in Dodd’s Moon Tide Feast events, where he qualified by catching a Purple Vortex Ray and later found a Resonance Stone inside a Shark Beast.
• Dodd activated a ritual using Deep Sea Resonance Mu Jins, trapping one hundred adventurers in a descending barrier and drawing them into a Secret Realm.
• Xia Nan awoke as a Wolf Cub while Dodd became a Gravel Scale Lizard and began hunting the adventurers to gain strength for his Transcendent advancement.
• Xia Nan tested his combat skills in his new body, ate with the wolf pack, and killed Tong Yan, whose death left blue-green light that strengthened Xia Nan’s abilities.
• Xia Nan chose the Temple Night-Stalker Wolf evolution, then hunted for more adventurers as the Secret Realm accelerated his growth and its boundaries shrank.
• Xia Nan found a Raging Waves War Gang emblem near a Goblin Nest, then spotted a Honey Badger carrying a dead goblin and a poison-spitting Toad riding on its neck.

Xia Nan evolved by gathering Life Energy in the collapsing Secret Realm, then returned to the island and helped the adventurers defeat the Shahua Mermen. Dodd survived his failed ritual and fled as the mermen launched another assault, which Xia Nan ended by beheading their commander.

• Fink and Leslie joined forces in the Secret Realm, but Xia Nan killed them and met the evolution conditions that let him become a Winter Wolf.
• Xia Nan teamed up with Sarisa and Sasha, killed Flynn and Sefeng, and evolved into a Steel-Bone Spine-Blade Wolf (Elite).
• Xia Nan and his companions found Lorraine, helped defeat a Fire Elemental, and Xia Nan evolved into a Black Wolf with the Battle-Hardened Blade Master path.
• Dodd gave all surviving Adventurers the ability to sense one another and hunted for Life Energy while Xia Nan’s group fought their way through the shrinking Secret Realm.
• Dodd fled from Alton’s Dragon Might and pursued Xia Nan’s group, but Xia Nan killed him before the [Dreamweaver Corridor] ritual collapsed.
• Xia Nan returned to the island, joined the coastal adventurers against the Shahua Mermen, and helped kill the Murloc Commander.
• After the battle, Xia Nan learned Alton had survived as a Red Dragon Hatchling and explained Dodd’s ritual to Tie Ge and Sefeng.
• Dodd recovered and fled as the Shahua Mermen launched a new assault, but Xia Nan reached the battlefield and beheaded their commander with Gravity Control and Heavy Tide.

Xia Nan and the adventurers stopped the Shahua Mermen’s sacrifice ritual and killed the Bloodskin Shark Beast, then survived the island’s aftermath and settled their spoils in Barracuda Bay. After recovering and repairing plans for his gear, Xia Nan prepared to leave the Southern Islands and head inland.

• Xia Nan led the adventurers to Dodd’s hidden harbor, where Dodd died in an explosion after warning them about Ulk’s altar and revealing the Dreamweaver Corridor Key.
• Xia Nan interrupted Ulk’s sacrifice ritual by striking the altar, but the injured Bloodskin Shark Beast emerged and attacked the adventurers.
• The Bloodskin Shark Beast killed Tie Ge and Sefeng and wounded several others, while Xia Nan fought underwater and killed the Murloc Priests before turning on Ulk.
• Xia Nan killed Ulk and, after Sarisa’s shot brought him back to the fight, crushed the Bloodskin Shark Beast’s head and took the Key from its chest.
• Xia Nan woke in a manor two days later and learned that hidden mermen still blockaded Stodd Island, while his new combat rewards included Level 2 Gravity Control and the Hunting Arc Battle Momentum.
• Xia Nan activated the Dreamweaver Corridor by merging the Key with its terminal, then Orich arrived and arranged to buy the battle’s spoils while letting Xia Nan keep the Shark Beast’s remains.
• Xia Nan declined Orich’s offer of a position, brought the Shark Beast materials and damaged equipment to Selianne, and chose to use the Bloodstone Heavy Anchor to repair his Abyssal Flow armor.
• Xia Nan sold or consigned his loot, including the Flamescale Hybrid, and told Hera he planned to leave Barracuda Bay for inland destinations, likely River Valley Town.