Chapter Summaries

After defeating the alien army, Su Mo reviewed his huge Survival Point gains, inducted the surviving aliens, and sent the Hope toward its rendezvous with the Tundra. He noticed his pets beginning to resist the game’s absolute control and ended by preparing to open the Iron Treasure Chests.

• Su Mo ordered the aliens to stop salvaging, brought them aboard the Hope, and had Connie induct them into the Ao Clan.
• Su Mo’s daily report awarded him 34,621 Survival Points, bringing his remaining total to 48,741 after the victory and several milestones.
• Su Mo decided to improve the Hope’s comfort to raise his daily Survival Point evaluation, then ordered Gonggong to begin long-distance travel toward the Tundra.
• Su Mo prepared a celebratory meal, but Oreo, Moore, Big and Little Spark said they were busy and told him to eat first, revealing a change in their behavior.
• Su Mo stored the leftover food and went to the warehouse, where he chose to open Iron Treasure Chests instead of the many wooden ones.

Su Mo opened hundreds of treasure chests aboard Hope One, sorting their contents and considering how to conceal the foreign races’ failed hunt until humanity was stronger. A Gold Treasure Chest produced an unfamiliar card, and its appraisal left him astonished.

• Su Mo opened 136 Iron Treasure Chests and 87 Copper Treasure Chests, finding mostly ordinary supplies and blueprints.
• Su Mo checked the foreign races’ chat panel and saw that the Five Great Royal Clans were hiding the failed hunt to protect the Ocean Hunting Plan.
• Su Mo sorted the chest contents, showered, and opened 48 Silver Treasure Chests, obtaining a Fine Pliers Blueprint and a haul of useful items.
• Su Mo followed his instincts and opened the fourth Gold Treasure Chest, which released a golden radiance and revealed an unfamiliar card.
• Su Mo spent one Disaster Point to appraise the card and exclaimed in surprise at what it could do.

Su Mo assessed a Memory Weapon Manifestation Card, inventoried the spoils from the battle, and discovered the Liquid Replicator could reproduce light-absorbing paint for the Hope. After realizing the victory had earned him enough Disaster Points, he began producing paint and planned to upgrade the shelter during the voyage.

• Su Mo tested the Memory Weapon Manifestation Card, found that manifesting a Dongfeng-17 had only a 0.003% success rate, and canceled the attempt.
• Su Mo opened the remaining treasure chests and recorded the blueprints, tools, items, and cards he had gained from the battle.
• Su Mo examined the Liquid Replicator and realized it could reproduce the light-absorbing paint he wanted to coat the Hope with.
• Su Mo discovered he had 18,200 Disaster Points from defeating fourteen races, enough to upgrade to a Tier 5 Shelter and replicate paint for the ship.
• Su Mo moved the Liquid Replicator outside to begin producing paint and hoped to find a ruin during the next ten days of travel.

Hope traveled more than 3,000 kilometers across the sea while Su Mo upgraded its detection systems and waited for marine life to appear. After spotting a livestream that claimed to teach viewers how to gain a dizziness-resistance title, Su Mo entered it to investigate.

• Moore caught a flock of migratory birds in a net, but Su Mo told him to release them and promised to take him diving later.
• Su Mo reflected that Hope had traveled more than 3,000 kilometers in two and a half days and expected to reach the Tundra in nine more days.
• Su Mo described upgrading Firepower King to monitor energy within two hundred kilometers and detect underwater creatures with sonar, then ordered it to begin continuous scanning.
• Su Mo browsed the World Channel and saw that players were focused on fishing as marine life began appearing in some regions.
• Su Mo noticed a livestream claiming to teach a method for earning a permanent title that increased dizziness resistance, then entered it.

Su Mo watched Garfield Bieber present the Ocean Friend title from the Lamb Mountain Range Shelter, where a diverse group had built a defensible home and fishing harbor. Garfield explained how to obtain the title while avoiding its restrictions and prepared to demonstrate the process with Su Pajie.

• Su Mo recognized the mountains in the live stream and saw the shelter’s artificial bay, Fishing Boat, and easily defended route up the mountain.
• Garfield Bieber introduced the Lamb Mountain Range Shelter and drew a huge audience after calling out Su Mo and other viewers.
• Garfield revealed the Ocean Friend title, which boosted its holder’s abilities at sea and protected their ship from marine creatures, but forbade intentionally harming them.
• Su Mo judged that the title’s restriction did not prevent holders from fighting the Land Alien Race and noted that its wording allowed loopholes.
• Garfield explained that title holders could fish by following orders from someone without the title, then began demonstrating how Su Pajie could obtain it.

After learning how to obtain the Ocean Friend title from Garfield, Su Mo used Hope’s sonar and the Mermaid Set to complete its initial task and organize the Ocean Alien Race to help marine life. The title’s advancement task appeared, requiring him to defeat Thunder Bear Warrior Li Li in direct combat.

• Su Mo watched Garfield explain how to obtain the Ocean Friend title, then decided to pursue it by helping marine creatures.
• Su Mo equipped the Mermaid Set, entered the sea with Moore, and caught and released Treasure Fish before gathering shrimp to feed fifty more.
• Su Mo released the fed Treasure Fish from their basin and received the Ocean Friend title.
• Su Mo summoned Connie, Vice-Captain Thunder Bear Warrior Li Li, and about forty Ocean Alien Race members to catch Treasure Fish and release them from basins.
• After Su Mo overturned twenty-five basins, the game offered the title’s advancement task: defeat Thunder Bear Warrior Li Li in direct combat.

Su Mo deduced that advancing the Ocean Friend title could make him an Ocean God Envoy, then exploited the title’s rules to build an automated system for saving Treasure Fish. He also addressed tensions among the foreign-race soldiers and prepared to pursue the title upgrades without delaying the Hope’s meeting with the Tundra.

• Su Mo concluded that the game was using the title advancement to seek the Ocean God, and he advanced to Ocean Favored One after defeating Moore.
• Su Mo overturned the foreign-race teams’ collected fish basins, then ordered the Hope to set sail and planned to save millions of fish within fifteen days.
• Su Mo and Connie wrote a fishing program for Gonggong that would operate an upgraded net and sonar without harming the fish.
• Connie explained that the foreign-race army included mercenaries and that former tribal soldiers looked down on them, so Su Mo advised her on resolving the conflict.
• Su Mo upgraded the net and sonar, installed the net on the Hope, and prepared Gonggong to automatically catch Treasure Fish during the voyage.

Su Mo advanced his ocean title to Tier 4 but worried that earning the ten million points needed for the next advancement would take too long. With Moore’s suggestion, he used sleeping agent and its antidote to rapidly earn enough points, triggering a group competition mission that would decide who advanced to Tier 5.

• Su Mo reviewed Hope Village’s development plans while traveling aboard the Hope and discovered that he had advanced to the Tier 4 Ocean Overlord title.
• Su Mo calculated that fishing and releasing Treasure Fish would take too long to earn the ten million points required for another advancement.
• Moore suggested reversing the ideas of harm and rescue, prompting Su Mo to use sleeping agent followed by an antidote on ocean life.
• Li Li scattered forty barrels of sleeping agent into the sea, and Su Mo released the antidote an hour later as the Hope resumed sailing.
• The progress bar filled in one hour and forty-five minutes, and Su Mo received a Tier 4 advancement mission notice announcing an upcoming group competition with tens of thousands of human and alien entrants.

Su Mo prepared to enter the Group Ruins for the Tier 4 Title advancement mission, equipping himself for a potentially dangerous underwater contest among hundreds of thousands of contenders. After learning that the Tundra Shelter was sending four people and receiving their names from Lu Yongyi, he was stunned to recognize Yang Chan among them.

• Su Mo confirmed his participation in the Group Ruins and arranged emergency plans for the Hope while he was away.
• Su Mo packed weapons, ammunition, supplies, robots, and the Mermaid Set in preparation for the ruins.
• Su Mo put on the Mermaid Set and disguised himself with its headpiece before the mission began.
• Su Mo contacted Lu Yongyi, who said the Tundra Shelter had four entrants and that other large shelters were sending hundreds or thousands of people.
• Lu Yongyi sent Su Mo information about the ruins and the four Tundra entrants: Yu Ruping, Zhuang Ying, Yang Chan, and Xing Yunwen.
• Su Mo recognized Yang Chan's name and reacted with shock.

Su Mo prepared to enter the Ocean Overlord advancement tournament, learning that Su Chan would also compete and that the ruins would feature friendly challenges with rewards and rankings. After arriving in the ruins, he adopted the name General Xing Daorong and entered the first challenge, where he would compete for one of ten advancement qualifications.

• Su Mo learned from Lu Yongyi that Su Chan was among the four people whose actions had helped the Tundra advance, and he anticipated seeing her in the ruins.
• Su Mo reviewed the ruins' rules, confirmed that contestants could not attack one another, and heard that outside viewers would follow Overlords whose popularity would affect their rankings and rewards.
• Su Mo gave final instructions to the Hope's crew, checked Oreo's divination, and was transported into the ruins with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade.
• The game explained that the top ten performers would advance and that contestants could either claim each round's reward or accumulate it for an upgraded reward.
• Su Mo found himself inside a glass case in an ocean full of other contestants, opened the Challenge interface, and renamed himself General Xing Daorong.
• After checking the first-stage leaderboard, Su Mo entered the challenge and disappeared from his case.

Su Mo’s Ocean Overlord promotion challenge cast him as a deserter and wanted criminal, but he used mines to defeat an Ocean Guard attack and rose to first place with a score of 403. He discovered that he was on White Sand Island, where he had to develop and defend a tiny territory with nine fishman subjects.

• Survivors watched the Tier 4 promotion rankings as Chu Xuan and Great Emperor Wang Teng led the contestants.
• Xing Daorong suddenly surged to first place with a score of 403 and the designation Deserter Wanted Criminal, shocking the viewers.
• Su Mo learned that his mines had killed the Ocean Guard attackers, while his fishman followers suffered no casualties and looted their supplies.
• Su Mo reflected on how the challenge stages flowed together and how his assigned deserter role had trapped him in a difficult cycle.
• Su Mo tapped a rock at White Sand Island’s summit and revealed a token that showed his territory’s weak condition and development rewards.

Su Mo escaped prison, chose the Free Lord route, and bound himself to White Sand Island after evading the Ocean Guard Team. He claimed a territory modification card and received a new task to rob a passing merchant ship.

• Su Mo accepted his criminal identity, escaped prison, and chose the Free Lord route instead of enlisting.
• Su Mo stole a boat and a sea map, freed fishman slaves to serve as his crew, and escaped the Ocean Guard Team’s pursuit.
• Su Mo bound himself to White Sand Island, valuing its trade-route location, freshwater, and available food resources despite its low evaluation.
• Su Mo claimed a Beginner Territory Modification Card and considered which of its four upgrades to choose.
• Su Mo received Stage Four’s task: rob a passing merchant ship and plunder its supplies.

Su Mo began developing White Sand Island as a disguised Ocean Guard settlement, planning to gather wealth and intelligence by controlling nearby maritime trade. After studying the shipping route and organizing the mermen, he held a feast that made the faint call of the God of Food grow clearer.

• Su Mo chose to keep his Merfolk Clan identity and ordered Fish One through Fish Nine to bring supplies to his camp.
• Su Mo decided to disguise himself and the mermen as the Ocean Guard and build White Sand Island into a busy entertainment stop while secretly developing military strength.
• Su Mo studied a map, identified the merchant route between White Sand Island and Treasure Fish Town, and planned to seize freighters while their crews rested ashore.
• Su Mo showed the mermen how to cut trees and build shelters, then arranged a ceremonial feast with Treasure Fish soup and gruel.
• As the mermen prayed to the God of Food, Su Mo felt the mysterious call within him grow clearer, but suppressed his urge to transform and served the meal.

Su Mo discovered that killing Ocean Guard soldiers increased his Wanted Order, bringing stronger daily pursuit forces to White Sand Island. He chose the Land of No Law territory ability, which would prevent the Guard from locating him and freeze his wanted level while he was on the island, and realized he could lure pursuers there for their ships and supplies.

• Su Mo spotted another Ocean Guard ship approaching White Sand Island and learned that the new pursuit team had brought forty soldiers, all of whom his fishmen defeated without losses.
• Su Mo checked the Lord Token and learned that his Wanted Order had risen to three stars, with a hundred-soldier purge team due to arrive in about twenty-eight hours.
• Su Mo realized that further increases could bring a thousand-person force and began searching for a way to stop his wanted value and star level from rising.
• Su Mo used the Territory Modification Card to select Function Four and received three special ability options, including Land of No Law.
• Su Mo chose Land of No Law, which would prevent the Ocean Guard from learning his coordinates and keep his wanted level and value fixed while he was in his territory.
• Su Mo realized he could expose his location outside White Sand Island at night, then fight the arriving Guard Team from within the territory and take its ship and supplies.

Su Mo disguised his ship as an Ocean Guard vessel and began pursuing a plan to seize slaves and build a force capable of overthrowing the Ocean God's regime. As Han Bi warned a massive livestream audience that Xing Daorong was conquering the trial world, an early tsunami struck the outside world with 25% greater force than expected.

• Su Mo ordered Fish One and the crew to pose as a Law Enforcement Team, then set a goal of raising White Sand Island's population above two thousand by capturing slaves.
• Pei Shao and Qi Qin worried that the Warden had not returned from the Group Ruins, while Chen Shen reassured them that the Warden could leave the trial if needed.
• Garfie Bieber's livestream drew billions of viewers as Han Bi described the Group Ruins' professions and accused Xing Daorong of building a huge fleet and conquering the world.
• Han Bi predicted that Xing Daorong would conquer the Group Ruins by the next day, and the livestream's popularity surged before suddenly collapsing.
• Garfie Bieber rushed outside and saw a towering mountain of black seawater as the Game Panel warned that a tsunami had arrived early with 25% increased power.
• As Garfie Bieber panicked, he remembered a manual explaining how to obtain and advance titles through shortcuts.

Su Mo celebrated his imminent victory in the Deep Sea World and eagerly awaited his reunion with Su Chan. After they embraced, Su Chan warned him that something serious might have happened on the Wasteland, because her mental contracts with treasure fish and animals were breaking.

• Fish One reported that Su Mo's forces had captured key cities and islands, while the Church's enemies had retreated behind Zadu Strait toward the Daya Archipelago.
• Su Mo ordered Fish One to avoid a premature decisive battle, target the enemy's remaining food-production port, and prepare a feast to celebrate Su Chan's arrival.
• Su Mo reviewed his authority uses and battle plans, then prepared food while waiting anxiously for his sister.
• Su Mo learned that Su Chan had arrived and rushed to the entrance, where they embraced after being apart for more than four months.
• Su Chan told Su Mo that her contracts with treasure fish and animals had begun breaking, suggesting that something serious had happened on the Wasteland.

Su Mo realized that the wasteland’s tsunami disaster had arrived far earlier than expected and concluded that Tundra Shelter could not survive its final waves. As the tsunami struck, Chen Shen organized the shelter’s defenses while Hope weathered the deep-sea waves and sped toward its destination.

• Su Mo connected the sudden loss of contact with creatures around Tundra Shelter to an early tsunami disaster and warned Su Chan that the shelter would not survive its strongest waves.
• Chen Shen assigned the shelter’s teams to seal leaks, move supplies, monitor the sea and collect Treasure Fish before the next wave arrived.
• As the tsunami hit Iron Stone Mountain, Chen Shen urged the villagers to keep faith in Su Mo and Hope, and ordered everyone to move out when the wave reached them.
• On Hope, Moore and the crew moved the foreign races below deck and secured the wheelhouse as the ship rose and fell on enormous waves.
• Hope’s Wave Breaker trait reinforced its hull and increased its speed, allowing it to cut through the storm at up to fifty-three knots.

Su Mo prepared to return to the wasteland by collecting seeds and scientific materials, then led the Expeditionary Force to defeat the Ocean God Church and unify the Deep Sea World. After Aaron died while fleeing, Su Mo was enthroned and introduced laws and production policies that began the Industrial Revolution.

• Su Mo reassured Su Chan that she could remain in the Deep Sea World while he cleared its remaining enemies, then collected seeds and technology documents to bring back to the wasteland.
• Su Mo launched a campaign against the Ocean God Church, and his authorities let the Expeditionary Force travel quickly, resurrect casualties, and repair its ships.
• The Expeditionary Force captured the Zadu Strait, destroyed the church's supply network, and defeated the Ocean God Guard after church members rebelled.
• Su Mo exposed and captured High Priest Aaron, who surrendered his robes, crown, and scepter before kneeling at gunpoint.
• Aaron escaped but died two days later when a farmer caught him stealing food, and Su Mo was enthroned as Deep Sea Lord.
• Su Mo broadcast 248 basic laws and 108 production reward policies throughout the Deep Sea World, ending the era of divine authority and beginning the Industrial Revolution.

After the Group Ruins rewards stalled, Su Mo explored the dark space and used the Heaven Stealing Secret talisman paper to reveal two mysterious figures, including the Fertile Soil Era Ocean God. The system offered him five choices, and Su Mo chose to switch identities and confront them as Yang Jian.

• Su Mo discovered that reward distribution had stalled after he completed every Group Ruins stage and earned first place.
• Su Mo tested the dark space's invisible boundary and searched through his stored items for a cause of the delay.
• The Heaven Stealing Secret talisman paper revealed an illusion of two figures speaking beside the sea, and Su Mo recognized one as the Fertile Soil Era Ocean God.
• Su Mo used the system to appraise the figures and received five choices with different effects on his rewards and their favorability.
• Su Mo switched identities to Yang Jian, then told the two figures that he was a god too.

Su Mo returned to his shelter, learned that the tsunami and the Ocean Alien Race had arrived ahead of schedule, and sent weapons and ammunition to humanity’s forces. He upgraded his shelter to Tier 5 and received confirmation that his Ocean God promotion trial rewards were ready to claim.

• Su Mo reunited with Connie, Moore, Oreo, and the others over the headset, then called his contacts to learn about the early tsunami and alien arrival.
• Lu Yongyi told Su Mo that humanity planned to fight at the tsunami’s peak in five days and that leaders hoped Su Mo could trigger a greater disaster to stop it.
• Su Mo promised to help stabilize the situation, then sent the Tundra ten machine guns, twenty rifles, fifty pistols, and large quantities of ammunition.
• Su Mo used the newly available upgrade option, and his shelter reached Tier 5 after a lengthy progress bar.
• Su Mo received confirmation that he had passed the Ocean God promotion trial with rank 1, 9,999 stages cleared, and 999.9 billion points, and the game began verifying his rewards.