Chapter Summaries

Linsey and the others found the Feathered Serpent empowered by the Mutated Ones’ Sea of Flesh, and Bena struck first by cleaving the mountain and the serpent with his sword. Nolan then unleashed his full power and appeared above the struggling Feathered Serpent, ready to attack.

• The force reached the mountaintop and saw the Feathered Serpent strengthened by a Sea of Flesh infused with powerful Life Force.
• Tao Feng recognized the Sea of Flesh as a powerful life technique, while Linsey and Nolan explained that it came from the dangerous Mutated Ones in the Abyss.
• Linsey identified Life Source Material as the Mutated Ones’ weakness, but Bena stepped forward to deliver the first blow.
• Bena split the mountain peak into a gorge and cleaved the Feathered Serpent in two with his White Steel Sword.
• Nolan altered his Source Material Skill with the breath of life, used spatial compression to reach the valley floor, and prepared to fight the Feathered Serpent without holding back.

Linsey, Nolan, Bena, and the Righteous Walker fought the corrupted Feathered Serpent, but a powerful Seventh Stage Mutated One emerged from its body. Linsey’s explosive arrow failed to finish the enemy, who protected himself with the serpent’s flesh and faced Nolan.

• Linsey used his Scouting Skill to confirm that the still-living Feathered Serpent had been corrupted and warned his companions about its potent Life Force.
• Bena and the Righteous Walker attacked the Feathered Serpent while Nolan bound its rear half with flaming shackles and split it further with Law power.
• A Seventh Stage Mutated One emerged from inside the Feathered Serpent and recognized Nolan, suggesting that killing him could change the future Law Knight’s fate.
• Linsey shot the Mutated One with an explosive arrow that unleashed a flaming hurricane, but the enemy transformed the Feathered Serpent’s lower body into protective armor and healed his burns.
• Nolan closed in and attacked, but the armor resisted his strike, and he asked the Mutated One whether they knew each other.

Nolan and Tao Feng joined forces to kill the Mutated One, allowing Bena to finish off the Feathered Serpent. Although the battlefield appeared cleared and the group relaxed, Linsey discovered that the Mutated One’s kill record had not increased in his Hunting Notes.

• Nolan recognized that the Mutated One had come from the future and wounded him with a sword strike that countered his armor’s law.
• The Mutated One trapped Nolan in flesh hands, but Tao Feng intervened with Life Force and restrained him with plants growing from the flames.
• Nolan combined law power with Tao Feng’s Life Force to split the Mutated One and kill him.
• With the Mutated One dead, Bena destroyed the Feathered Serpent while Linsey supported him with arrows.
• Linsey checked his Hunting Notes and found that the Mutated One’s kill record had not increased.

Linsey warned that the Mutated One was still alive despite vanishing from the battlefield, then crafted and equipped a Behemoth Heart. He realized the enemy’s true target might be Bena’s village, the future City of Law, and the Strategic Map showed a Red Dot launching a surprise attack toward it.

• Linsey used his skill to confirm that the Mutated One was still alive, though his companions could find no trace of it.
• Linsey collected the Feathered Serpent Heart and synthesized a Behemoth Heart, which he equipped to increase his attributes and life force.
• Bena questioned why so many factions had come to scheme in a remote place, prompting Linsey to connect their actions to the future significance of the City of Law.
• Linsey warned Bena that the Mutated One might be trying to destroy his village rather than escape or win the battle.
• Linsey checked the Strategic Map and saw a Red Dot launching a surprise attack toward the City of Law.

Linsey and Nolan realized the Mutated One had used a decoy to attack Bena Village while the stronger version delayed them in the mountains. Linsey returned through a spatial rift and found Arona near death after shielding the villagers with her faith.

• Linsey claimed the Storm's Breath violin and the Sleeping Wind enchanted rag as quest rewards.
• Nolan stopped Linsey and ordered the others to open a spatial rift back to Bena Village.
• The group saw the village engulfed by Corruption Poison, with Arona's faith-light protecting the surviving villagers.
• The Righteous Walker charged at the Mutated One while Linsey rushed into the village's protected area.
• Linsey found Arona burned nearly to death as she continued praying, and realized she had stayed behind to protect the villagers.

Linsey saved Arona from the fate she believed history required, giving her a restored body and challenging her to follow the Righteous Walkers’ example. As Arona reconsidered her faith, Bena captured the Mutated Ones and demanded to know why they had attacked the village.

• Linsey gave the dying Arona a Flesh Reconstitution Potion, restoring her body and sight.
• Arona feared that Linsey’s intervention had changed the historical future, but Linsey asked whether the Righteous Walkers would submit to fate or press forward.
• Arona realized that the Righteous Walkers would have chosen to fight for the reality they hoped for, and Linsey left her to rest.
• Bena pinned the Mutated Ones beneath his foot and demanded to know why they had destroyed the village and what they were trying to accomplish.

Linsey stopped the Mutated One from contaminating the land, then befriended Nolan through the Friend Channel. The arrival of an Eighth Stage powerhouse destabilized time and space and sent Linsey back beneath the midday sun.

• Linsey used Sleeping Wind to put the Mutated One to sleep before he could release Corruption Power.
• Tao Feng and the other visitors from the World Beyond gathered around the captured Mutated One to examine his Source Material Skill.
• Nolan told Linsey he valued their friendship, accepted a Friend Request, and explored the Friend Channel's ability to connect across worlds and timelines.
• Nolan offered to come to Linsey's aid in the future if their communication still worked across timelines.
• An Eighth Stage powerhouse arrived above the City of Law, causing time and space to collapse and sending Linsey back beneath the midday sun.

Linsey remained trapped in chaotic spacetime and searched the World Border for a connection between worlds while asking his companions about their situations. He learned that Nolan was officially considered missing, though Alvitte had found no record of his death.

• Linsey confirmed that the Strategic Map could not locate him and wondered whether he was in Dust Road World or the City of Law.
• Linsey messaged Nolan, but the Law Manipulator did not respond, prompting Linsey to fear that Nolan might be dead.
• Linsey asked Arona about escaping the temporal-spatial chaos, and she suggested waiting for the strange object's power to run out.
• Linsey reached the World Border, found no nearby connection between worlds, and headed north to search for one.
• Linsey asked Alvitte about Nolan, and Alvitte said official City of Law records considered the founder of the Law Knight path missing.

Linsey discovered that the Behemoth Heart could be synthesized into an Eternal Furnace Core, but the other materials were difficult to obtain. After following smoke to a camp, he met three Awakened expeditionaries from the distant past and learned that they had reached the boundary of the universe.

• Linsey unlocked a hidden synthesis requiring an Elemental Lord Core, a Gods Heart, and a Star Beast Heart in addition to the Behemoth Heart.
• Linsey spotted smoke rising from a hollow and approached a camp where three friendly Green Markers appeared on his Adventure Map.
• Anda Phil welcomed Linsey and introduced him to his companions Ailand and Sonia.
• Linsey explained that a spatial issue had thrown him into an unknown place, and Sonia told him that it was the boundary of the universe.
• Sonia revealed that the expedition had discovered twelve worlds, taught three intelligent species to cultivate Source Material Skills, and reached the universe's edge.

Linsey learned that the expeditioners had found radioactive uranium ore in a canyon and became interested in collecting it. When he asked how to escape a spatial-temporal distortion, they revealed they had encountered one in that same canyon two worlds earlier.

• Sonia told Linsey about the expedition and described dangerous ore that had harmed their companions.
• Ailand produced the sealed sample, and Linsey identified it as uranium ore and explained its radiation risks.
• Sonia said the expedition planned to establish a home at the universe’s boundary with the other twenty-four survivors.
• Linsey asked whether the expeditioners knew how to escape a spatial-temporal distortion, and Anda Phil said they had only escaped one by force.
• Ailand revealed that the distortion had occurred in the canyon where they found the uranium ore.

Linsey decided to cross two worlds in search of his destination and set off after meeting Sonia and her companions. He learned that the Abyss School had once been the secretive Dark Walkers, then crossed the world in days and reached a new World Boundary.

• Linsey decided to travel onward rather than wait, and Sonia and the other expeditionaries offered him supplies before he traded them some of his own food.
• Linsey asked Sonia about the Abyss, and Anda Phil explained that its techniques might refer to the Dark Walkers of the Negative World.
• Linsey headed west and reflected on the Dark Walkers' history and the expeditionaries' settlement as he crossed the prosperous world.
• Linsey saw Sonia's companions traveling along roads toward a new home, then continued on alone.
• Linsey reached a coast and realized he had crossed the world far faster than expected.

Linsey crossed the Phantom Light Maze and entered the Starry Sea, a world of shallow blue ocean beneath a starry sky. After fishing up a Pink Pearl, he realized the new world might hold the materials he needed to craft a Magical Conch.

• Linsey used his Adventure Map to find the route through the Phantom Light Maze and followed it to the Rainbow Corridor.
• Linsey stepped into the Starry Sea and saw its vast shallow ocean, scarce patches of land, and star-filled blue sky.
• Linsey began fishing as he traveled, caught a Starry Sea Shell, and crushed it to find a Pink Pearl.
• Linsey discovered that the Pink Pearl could be combined into a Jellyfish Pearl, a component for the Magical Conch and Ecosystem Radar.
• Linsey concluded that the Starry Sea might provide the Sea Turtle Shell needed for the Magical Conch, though he did not know how to obtain one.

Linsey discovered that Star Sand from the Starry Sea could be crafted into powerful Sun Shards and began fishing regularly while continuing his journey through the temporal-spatial chaos. On his fifth day, a violent storm struck the sea, prompting him to take out his Fishing Rod outside his usual fishing time.

• Linsey fished up a Star Treasure Chest containing Star Sand and a Star Sea Gem, then learned that Star Sand could be crafted into Star Shards and Sun Shards.
• Linsey crafted a Sun Shard, suffered intense pain and spent much of his source essence, then discovered recipes for dangerous equipment and the Sublime Sun and Moon Seal.
• Linsey resumed traveling toward an escape from the temporal-spatial chaos, setting aside an hour around sunrise each day to fish in the Starry Sea.
• Linsey accumulated enough Star Sand to craft two additional Sun Shards and judged that they could threaten Seventh Stage Awakened and possibly Eighth Stage Awakened.
• On his fifth day in the Starry Sea, Linsey stopped outside his usual fishing hour as a powerful storm swept across the sea and took out his Fishing Rod.

During a meteor shower in the Starry Sea, Linsey fished up a Star Blue Zircon and used it to craft the powerful Tsunami Shooter. He transformed the bow into a fishing rod and, as a huge shadow surged from beneath the seabed, prepared to face what he expected to be a Fish King.

• Linsey built a fishing platform in the Starry Sea and cast his Fishing Rod during the storm.
• Linsey caught a special purple chest containing a Star Blue Zircon.
• Linsey combined the Star Blue Zircon with materials from the Seven Seas Alliance world to craft a Tsunami Shooter.
• Linsey transformed the Tsunami Shooter into an azure fishing rod and cast it into the turbulent sea.
• Linsey's rod jerked as the seabed shook and an enormous shadow burst upward beneath the water.

Linsey encountered the Seventh Stage Star Sea Island Turtle, whose time delay field slowed his movements, thoughts, and attacks. After escaping its crushing stomp by burrowing underground, he considered how to defeat it and turned his attention to the cursed item Ocean Disaster.

• Linsey read the Star Sea Island Turtle’s Hunting Notes and was caught in its time delay field.
• The turtle lunged at Linsey, but he activated Concentrated State and narrowly avoided its jaws.
• Linsey’s arrow slowed inside the field, and the turtle’s stomp forced him to use the Eternal Imprint to burrow underground and escape.
• After leaving the time delay field, Linsey recognized the turtle’s time-related power might help him break through spacetime chaos.
• Linsey considered how to kill the turtle and focused on the cursed item Ocean Disaster in his pack.

Linsey used Ocean Disaster to place a permanent curse on the Star Sea Island Turtle, causing natural disasters to target it across the Starry Sea. As an earthquake and undersea volcanic eruption battered the beast, Linsey watched from a safe distance while the turtle grew enraged.

• Linsey judged that Ocean Disaster could continually threaten the Star Sea Island Turtle as long as it remained in the Starry Sea, then used the curse on it from behind.
• The Star Sea Island Turtle sensed danger and expanded its time-slowing field, while Linsey stayed beyond its reach.
• An earthquake split the seafloor, and the turtle used its field to evade the largest fissure as Linsey pursued it in stealth.
• Linsey smelled sulfur and spotted an undersea volcano erupting from the fissure the turtle had escaped.
• Volcanic rocks struck the turtle despite its time-slowing field, enraging it as Linsey observed Ocean Disaster’s effects.

Linsey discovered that the storm-wracked Starry Sea had become a calamity fishing ground and used it to seek rare rewards. After crafting a Ghost Sword, he hooked another special Fish King and drew the Star Sea Island Turtle toward the gathering calamity.

• The Star Sea Island Turtle endured the volcanic eruption and lightning without damage while Linsey watched from several kilometers away.
• Linsey tested the changed fishing ground and caught a Disaster Bloodthirsty Fish, confirming that the Starry Sea and storm effects had given way to a calamity environment.
• Linsey fished up an empty black box, found an invisible Invisible Blade inside, and combined it with the Wronged Soul Core to create a Ghost Sword.
• Linsey continued fishing, and a calamity aura gathered over the sea, attracting the Star Sea Island Turtle as another special Fish King took his bait.

Linsey discovered that the Calamity Fish King was the invisible Ocean Undead Lord, which raised the sea and attacked the Star Sea Island Turtle with cursed water. The two Seventh Stage powerhouses proved unable to harm each other, leaving Linsey at the edge of their ongoing battle.

• Linsey used the Decryption Game to reveal the Ocean Undead Lord after his fishing hook came up empty and the seawater began to rise.
• Linsey retreated beyond the Star Sea Island Turtle’s time-slowing field and identified the Ocean Undead Lord as an Awakened Seventh Stage undead that controlled the sea and curses.
• The Ocean Undead Lord summoned a cursed Water Blade and bound the Star Sea Island Turtle, then struck it with a second blade.
• Linsey blocked the resulting Curse Raindrops with a wall after discovering they tormented living creatures and permanently reduced their attributes.
• The Star Sea Island Turtle emerged unharmed thanks to its shell, and Linsey watched the two powerful opponents continue fighting without either gaining the upper hand.

As the Ocean Undead Lord and the Star Sea Island Turtle fought, Linsey realized that the Ocean Disaster curse had summoned a massive Meteorite. He hid deep underground to survive the impact, then found that the catastrophe had erased every hostile Red Marker from the map.

• Linsey watched the Ocean Undead Lord and the Star Sea Island Turtle grapple, unable to break through each other's defenses.
• Linsey realized the sky and sea were changing because the Ocean Disaster curse was brewing another catastrophe.
• A huge Meteorite appeared through the clouds, forcing the Ocean Undead Lord and the Star Sea Island Turtle to stop fighting.
• Linsey activated the Eternal Imprint, equipped his defenses, and drilled deep underground to escape the impact.
• The Meteorite struck, and Linsey endured the shockwaves as his Life Source Material healed his ruptured eardrums.
• Linsey checked the map after the impact and saw that every Red Marker representing hostility had vanished.

Linsey emerged from underground to find that the meteorite had devastated the sea and killed the Ocean Undead Lord, while its victims granted him a tremendous amount of experience. He dug through the meteorite for materials, discovered legendary extraterrestrial metal, and used it to create a Steel Crest.

• Linsey realized that Ocean Disaster had credited him with experience from every unit killed by the meteorite, and the Experience Bar continued to surge as he waited underground.
• Linsey surfaced and found a mountain-sized meteorite, a crater filling with seawater, and no trace of the Calamity Sea environment that had sustained the Ocean Undead Lord.
• Linsey searched the wrecked battlefield for Prey Material and began mining through the meteorite, pleased to find that most of it could be gathered as meteorite material.
• The Professional Prospector's Pointer led Linsey to legendary extraterrestrial metal at the meteorite's center.
• Linsey used the legendary metal at the Workbench to craft a Steel Crest.