Chapter Summaries

Davy Jones identified Gao De’s damaged Fifth Order accessories as relics from Ashen Isle and suspected Gao De knew how to explore the island, so he ordered his men to watch him rather than attack. At the Soul’s Rest Auction, Gao De sold both accessories for a total of 34,100 Plantagenet Coins before fees and felt he had struck it rich.

• Davy Jones recognized the Blue Flame Ring and Embroidered Silver Necklace as Fallen’s equipment and concluded they had come from Ashen Isle.
• After learning that Gao De planned to stay in the Blue Flame Islands, Davy Jones ordered his subordinate to monitor him and report his movements.
• Midi opened the final Soul’s Rest Auction session, where the Thought Resonance Crystal sold for 8,000 Plantagenet Coins.
• Gao De’s Blue Flame Ring sold for 16,600 Plantagenet Coins, and his Embroidered Silver Necklace sold for 17,500 Plantagenet Coins.
• Gao De celebrated the 34,100 Plantagenet Coins he had earned before the auction house deducted its fees.

Gao De won the auction for the powerful Fifth Order Circle Advancement Potion, Siren Saltmarsh Essence, with a bid of 40,000 Plantagenet Coins. After attracting unwanted attention, he left the auction hall to settle the transaction privately and slip away.

• Midi introduced Siren Saltmarsh Essence and explained that it increased the success rate of Circle advancement by thirty-five percent.
• Bidders rapidly drove the potion's price from 20,000 to 35,000 Plantagenet Coins, with the guest in private room number six leading the bidding.
• Gao De bid 36,000, and the young master in private room number six raised the price to 38,000.
• Gao De bid his limit of 40,000 Plantagenet Coins, and the young master refrained from bidding again to preserve funds for the final auction item.
• Midi awarded the potion to Gao De, who arranged to settle privately and left the auction hall after noticing people watching him.

After settling the auction bill by pawning Icejade Wutong Leaves, Gao De left the Blue Flame Auction House and secretly returned to Ashen Isle while a watcher tracked him. He resumed exploring the Abaddon Blue Flame, using its assault on his spirit to increase his tolerance as Sarah’s plan against Davy Jones remained underway.

• The steward calculated Gao De’s auction proceeds and told him he still owed 7,264 Plantagenet Coins for the Siren Saltmarsh Essence, so Gao De pawned five Icejade Wutong Leaves for 1,500 Plantagenet Coins.
• Gao De used Hyperthymesia Potion and Mandora Demon Eye to scan the Blood Sail Pirates’ tavern, where a burly middle-aged man watched him leave with Lan Wen.
• Gao De disguised himself as Lan Wen and returned to the Fire Knife, where Sarah told him to stay hidden on Ashen Isle while she used him as bait for Davy Jones.
• A silver-scaled fish near the Fire Knife observed Gao De and Sarah, and a man aboard a nearby hunting vessel used Beast Sense through a seabird to track Gao De toward Ashen Isle.
• Gao De entered the Abaddon Blue Flame and endured its spiritual assault, increasing his tolerance to the flames and his recovery from spiritual injuries.

Gao De pushed into the most dangerous Blue Flame on Ashen Isle, sharply increasing his tolerance even as he suffered severe spiritual pain. Meanwhile, Sarah’s plan to lure Davy into a trap advanced when his scouting mages appeared, and she ordered her people to proceed.

• A Bounty Hunter shot down a seabird that had been watching him on Ashen Isle and burned its corpse.
• Gao De searched abandoned mining camps for treasure, then headed toward the island’s interior after finding nothing and seeing his tolerance gains slow.
• Gao De touched the powerful Blue Flame torrent, suffered intense spiritual damage, and rapidly increased his Abaddon Blue Flame energy tolerance.
• Sarah prepared a layered deception to make Davy believe Gao De could find Spell Bottles and was exploring Ashen Isle freely through the Blue Flame.
• Bo Zai reported likely scouting mages sent by Davy near the island’s northwest, and Sarah calmly ordered him to proceed according to plan.

One-Eyed Bane led a Blood Sail Pirates mission to spy on Ashen Isle and saw someone posing as Gao De before an alarm forced him to flee. While Gao De endured the Blue Flame deep in the island, Bane escaped and began recounting what he had learned to Davy Jones.

• Bane and the Blood Sail Pirates infiltrated Ashen Isle to investigate Gao De, whom Davy Jones had ordered them to watch.
• Bane observed a man resembling Gao De leave the Blue Flame zone, hand a Blackwing Gang dagger to a Bounty Hunter, and announce plans to search the island's core.
• Gunfire exposed the infiltrators, and Bane fled as Bounty Hunters pursued him across Ashen Isle.
• Gao De remained unaware of the fighting and continued enduring the Blue Flame, raising his energy tolerance above 90 percent.
• Bane escaped into the sea with serious injuries and reached a hunting ship near another Half-Burning Isle.
• After waking aboard the ship, Bane began telling Davy Jones that he had seen the foreign mage from the Plantagenet Dynasty.

Gao De completed his adaptation to Abaddon Blue Flame and discovered a hidden cave containing a Spell Bottle. He identified the bottle just as the island shook, leaving its cause unknown.

• Sarah explained that her evidence and Allen's duplicate spell would help deceive Davy Jones, and said she planned to force him to act before he could investigate fully.
• Gao De endured the Blue Flame until his tolerance reached 100%, evolving into an Abaddon-Blessed Body that made him immune to Abaddon's leaking Blue Flame and let him sense its flows and eruptions.
• Gao De sensed Abaddon sleeping beneath Ashen Isle, then used his new vision to find and enter a cave concealed behind the Blue Flame.
• Gao De found a chamber filled with Blue Flame Crystals and another containing a tortured skeleton, a staff, and a Spell Bottle.
• As the island briefly shook, Gao De took the Spell Bottle and identified its ability to store and later cast or interrupt a spell of up to Fifth Circle.

The Blood Sail Pirates arrived at Ashen Isle aboard the Iron Crown and demanded that the Gold Coin Hunters leave, while Sarah returned to the island to contact Gao De. Davy Jones used the confrontation as a diversion, then ambushed Sarah and Gao De as they met at the edge of the Blue Flame Zone.

• A lookout spotted the Iron Crown approaching Ashen Isle, and Bo Zai ordered the Gold Coin Hunters to prepare for trouble.
• Bo Zai and Kallen Skullsplitter exchanged threats, and Kallen gave the Gold Coin Hunters half a day to withdraw.
• Bo Zai told the hunters to watch the Iron Crown and prepare to abandon Ashen Isle if necessary.
• Sarah reached the island and blew a silent brass whistle to contact Gao De, unaware that Davy Jones was watching her.
• Davy Jones revealed that the Iron Crown's arrival was a smokescreen to draw the Gold Coin Hunters' attention while he waited to seize Gao De.
• When Gao De approached Sarah at the edge of the Blue Flame Zone, Davy Jones attacked them with black mist and eight shadowy tentacles.

Sarah used Good Fortune to destroy Davy Jones’s shadow tentacles, but Davy struck at Gao De with Phantom Killer and Teleportation Gate. Sarah’s decoy trap then triggered a massive Blue Flame eruption that engulfed them both, and as Davy tried to escape, Sarah fired at him.

• Sarah fired Good Fortune’s Magic Energy bullets to shatter Davy’s eight Withering Embrace tentacles.
• Davy revealed himself and used Phantom Killer on Gao De, then teleported beside the apparently unconscious target.
• Davy discovered that Gao De was only a phantom when he reached for him, realizing Sarah had prepared a trap.
• Sarah detonated buried alchemical bombs, opening channels that drew Blue Flame into a torrent and engulfed both her and Davy.
• Davy struggled against the Blue Flame’s assault on his Mental Strength and cast Flight Spell to escape.
• Sarah fired another Magic Energy bullet from Good Fortune at Davy as he began to rise.

Davy Jones and Sarah Fortune fought a gun battle in the Blue Flame Zone, where Sarah’s marksmanship and willingness to endure soul damage kept him under pressure. After discovering an extraordinary wonder in a Spell Bottle, Gao De sensed Blue Flame gathering toward Ashen Isle’s northwest and flew to investigate.

• Davy Jones’s permanent defenses absorbed most of Sarah Fortune’s first shots, but she kept firing and forced him to dodge.
• Davy Jones drew Jade Destroyer and fired Dragon Scale Bullets that overwhelmed Sarah’s shots and blasted the ground around her.
• Sarah continued fighting despite Blue Flame’s worsening damage to her soul, while Davy Jones prepared another Dragon Scale Bullet.
• Gao De used Identify+ to confirm the extraordinary wonder he had sought was in his hands, then tucked away the Spell Bottle.
• Gao De sensed Blue Flame converging northwest of Ashen Isle, summoned Boeing, and flew toward the disturbance.

Sarah and Davy Jones fought a brutal gun battle as Blue Flame eroded their souls, until Sarah used a special round to overcome Davy’s defenses and reveal she was Laura’s daughter. Davy appeared defeated, but he unexpectedly revealed that he had caught the Soul Eater bullet in his palm.

• Davy Jones used a Dragon Scale Bullet to erupt Blue Flame beneath Sarah, leaving her kneeling and unable to stand.
• Davy shot Sarah in the arm, and the Jade Destroyer’s Topaz Crystallization began spreading across her flesh.
• Sarah crushed a crystal sphere whose golden liquid reversed the crystallization, then drew her Magic Firearm Bad Luck.
• Sarah fired the Soul Eater round, which broke Davy’s protective spells and struck him despite his attempt to become mist.
• Sarah told Davy that he had killed her mother, Laura, and declared that blood debt must be repaid in blood.
• Davy lowered his hand and revealed that he had caught the Soul Eater round in his palm.

Gao De emerged from the Blue Flame and killed Davy with a powerful spell after Davy mistook him for an illusion. He carried the badly injured Sarah out of the Blue Flame Zone, leaving them flying away from the island together.

• Sarah revealed that the Blue Flame had damaged Davy’s soul and likely ended his chance of advancing further, provoking him to aim the Jade Destroyer at her.
• Gao De appeared after watching the battle from within the Blue Flame and released a Spell Bottle’s Elemental Catastrophe at the unprepared Davy.
• The lightning storm destroyed Davy’s defenses and killed him, and Gao De used Mage Hand to loot the Jade Destroyer from his remains.
• Sarah collapsed as her soul damage overwhelmed her, and Gao De offered his hand and carried her on his back.
• Gao De flew Sarah toward the edge of the island, and Sarah remarked that she was lucky before he replied that good fortune did not favor fools.

Gao De rescued the badly wounded Sarah from Ashen Isle after Davy Jones died, hoping her survival would bring him lasting benefits and a way to claim Davy’s bounty. Sarah revealed Davy’s death to Bo Zai and asked Gao De for another favor, while the Fire Knife sailed toward the Iron Crown and displayed Davy’s corpse as a Sky Lantern.

• Gao De chose to save Sarah rather than kill her for a one-time reward, then carried her away from Ashen Isle while she lay unconscious.
• Gao De spotted Davy’s flagship, the Iron Crown, but flew to the Fire Knife, where Sarah woke and insisted that he take care of her.
• Sarah told Bo Zai that Davy was dead and credited Gao De with helping her get revenge; she later asked Gao De for one more favor despite the Iron Crown’s presence.
• The Fire Knife sailed toward the Iron Crown and stopped two nautical miles away, prompting Kallen Skullsplitter to watch its movements through a telescope.
• The Fire Knife’s crew hoisted Davy Jones’s charred corpse on the mast as a Sky Lantern, horrifying Kallen.

Kallen realized Davy Jones was dead and withdrew the Iron Crown, while Sarah recovered aboard the Fire Knife after defeating him. She told Gao De how her family’s decline, Davy’s murder of her parents, and the theft of the Jade Destroyer had driven her to spend nearly a century preparing her revenge.

• Kallen saw Davy Jones’s charred corpse and concluded that the Blood Sail Pirates would collapse without him.
• Kallen ordered the Iron Crown to retreat to Black Sail City after seeing Sarah aboard the Fire Knife.
• Sarah’s soul was badly damaged by fighting Davy with deep-layer Blue Flame, and she told Gao De that recovery would take over a year.
• Sarah explained that the Tierha Family had once dominated Magic Firearms but declined after Magic Energy Guns replaced them.
• Sarah recounted how Davy killed her parents, stole the Jade Destroyer, and destroyed their workshop when she was twelve.
• Sarah told Gao De that she had spent nearly a hundred years building the Gold Coin Hunters and preparing to avenge her parents.

Gao De returned Jade Destroyer to Sarah and accepted Bad Luck and four special rounds as partial compensation. Sarah pledged that she and the Gold Coin Hunters would remain his closest allies, then planned to return to Black Sail City with Davy Jones’s corpse and claim power after she recovered.

• After learning Sarah’s history, Gao De returned Jade Destroyer to her without asking for anything in return.
• Sarah offered Gao De a choice between Good Fortune and Bad Luck, and he chose Bad Luck.
• Sarah gave Gao De a cartridge case containing four special rounds and explained how her family made them.
• Gao De urged Sarah to rebuild her workshop in the Blue Flame Islands and take control of Black Sail City, and Sarah promised her lasting allegiance.
• Sarah planned to bring Davy Jones’s corpse to Black Sail City once she had recovered, and Gao De cast Comfortable Slumber+ to help heal her soul injury.

Gao De helped Sarah recover, then returned to Black Sail City and told Lan Wen that Sarah would claim credit for killing Davy Jones and challenge for control of the city. Meanwhile, Keith learned that the Raven Barrel Syndicate had located the man who won the Siren Saltmarsh Essence and set out to confront him.

• Gao De used Comfortable Slumber+ to ease Sarah's damaged soul, and Bo Zai thanked him for saving her.
• Gao De drank Boneblood Bramble Elixir to improve his mana refinement, and his body increased its resistance to toxins.
• Gao De told Lan Wen that Davy Jones was dead and that Sarah would claim the kill and seek power in Black Sail City.
• Keith learned from the Raven Barrel Syndicate that Gao De was at Ice Anchor Slaughter Docks and decided to move against him.
• Mage Luke warned Keith to investigate Gao De first, but Keith dismissed his concerns and ordered him to come along.

Gao De faced Keith and the Raven Barrel Syndicate over the Siren Saltmarsh Essence at Ice Anchor Wharf, while Lan Wen warned that Mage Luke was likely a Fifth Circle Mage. Just as Mage Luke attacked, a golden projectile streaked toward him and a woman challenged the group for threatening Gao De in Black Sail City.

• After discussing the Gold Coin Hunters’ plans with Sarah, Gao De left the Fire Knife to meet Lan Wen in Black Sail City.
• At Ice Anchor Wharf, Gao De recognized Keith’s party as hostile and assessed that their old mage, Mage Luke, might be a Fifth Circle Mage.
• Keith demanded that Gao De hand over the Siren Saltmarsh Essence, while Bone Spike admitted that the Raven Barrel Syndicate had exposed Gao De’s identity from the auction.
• Keith offered Gao De twenty thousand Plantagenet Coins for the essence, but Gao De refused and demanded an apology and payment from Keith instead.
• Keith ordered Mage Luke to kill Gao De and Lan Wen, but a golden afterimage flew at Mage Luke as a woman demanded to know whether he had asked her permission to attack Gao De.

Sarah arrived at the docks and saved Gao De by stopping Mage Luke’s attack with the Jade Destroyer. She turned on Keith and his men, killing Keith as Mage Luke fled with him, and left the remaining enemies facing her.

• Mage Luke activated Stone Skin to block Sarah’s Dragon Scale Bullet, but the impact injured him and revealed Sarah’s presence beside Gao De.
• Keith apologized to Sarah and offered compensation, but she fired on his men, whose bodies were drained of life and reduced to ash by the Jade Destroyer.
• Gao De warned Sarah through Message that her soul was injured, but she said she could still use the Jade Destroyer against Mage Luke.
• Keith begged Gao De for mercy and threatened him with his father, a Sixth Circle Mage, but Sarah refused to relent.
• Mage Luke grabbed Keith and fled through the crowd, but Sarah curved a Dragon Scale Bullet around the bystanders and killed Keith as he ran.

Sarah killed Keith and Mage Luke, then arrived at the Raven Barrel Syndicate’s headquarters after its leaders debated whether Davy Jones was dead and how to respond. She confronted the syndicate over its attack on her people, leaving its leaders facing her directly.

• Sarah shot Keith, and Bo Zai used a spell to distract Mage Luke so Sarah could kill him with a Dragon Scale Bullet.
• The Fire Knife sailed into the Ice Anchor Slaughter Docks with Davy Jones’s chained corpse displayed from its mast, revealing that Sarah had killed the Pirate King.
• The Barrel Master told the Raven Barrel Syndicate leaders that Kallen’s actions suggested Davy Jones was dead and that Sarah might be stronger than him.
• The leaders argued over whether to seize Blood Sail’s territory or seek cooperation with Sarah, while the Barrel Master hesitated because Davy’s death was unconfirmed.
• Sarah blasted open the meeting hall doors, and Bo Zai threw the battered Bone Spike onto the table as Sarah challenged the syndicate for touching her people.

Sarah used Bone Spike’s attack on Gao De as leverage to confront the Raven Barrel Syndicate and force it to submit. After learning that Sarah had killed Davy Jones, the Barrel Master agreed to serve her, leaving Sarah positioned to take control of the syndicate and use its knowledge to absorb Blood Sail’s assets.

• Bo Zai threw Bone Spike to the ground, and Sarah accused the Raven Barrel Syndicate of helping the Layton Mercenary Company target Gao De.
• The Barrel Master offered money, a wharf, and Upper Ward properties, but Sarah rejected each offer.
• A crow delivered news that Davy Jones was dead and his corpse had been displayed on the Fire Knife, convincing the Barrel Master that Sarah had defeated him.
• Sarah revealed that she wanted the Raven Barrel Syndicate under her control so it could provide intelligence and help her take over Blood Sail’s assets.
• Sarah promised the syndicate would remain Black Sail City’s largest as long as she was there, and the Barrel Master agreed to serve her.

Sarah seized the Blood Sail Pirates’ businesses in Black Sail City, killed Kallen, and took control of the Iron Crown after its crew surrendered. With the takeover underway, she gave Gao De the Zhuo Er Spell Essence recovered from Keith’s belongings.

• Sarah used the Raven Barrel Syndicate’s intelligence and personnel to seize Blood Sail businesses while she, Bo Zai, and the Barrel Master intercepted Kallen at Blood Sail Docks.
• Kallen escaped aboard the Iron Crown, but Sarah persuaded its crew to dismantle the ship’s defenses and betray him.
• Sarah killed Kallen with the Jade Destroyer, and her allies took control of the Blood Sail Pirates’ businesses and captured their remaining members.
• Sarah ordered the captured pirates registered, interrogated, and reassigned to the businesses they had once served.
• Sarah gave Gao De the Zhuo Er Spell Essence recovered from Keith’s relics and explained its power to reduce spell costs.