Recaps

Lin Yu asked the Island Master of the 6th Island about the first Freud, and she recounted how he secretly brought down the Lord of Mist Island. Lin Yu then suggested that Freud’s relationship with her had been more than friendship.

• Lin Yu told the Island Master that he wanted to learn about Freud’s life, not just obtain his legacy.
• The Island Master described how Freud deceived the Lord of Mist Island, turned his followers against him, and brought about his death.
• Lin Yu praised Freud’s deeds and implied that she had been especially important to him.
• The Island Master asked whether people in Lin Yu’s world viewed her as someone important to Freud, and Lin Yu said he had thought they were more than old friends.

Lin Yu spoke with the Island Master of the 6th Island about Lord 'Freud' and learned why she had stayed away from him. She wished Lin Yu luck in finding Freud's legacy and insisted she had not compromised the fairness of the process.

• Lin Yu revealed that he had learned pure Mental Power manipulation from Freud's notes, and the Island Master of the 6th Island recognized the rare technique.
• The Island Master praised Lin Yu's talent, offered future guidance and a possible exchange for Freud's [Item], but refused to give him substantive help before he earned the legacy.
• Lin Yu explained that he had guessed she was Freud's most important person from the way Freud spoke about her, and she confirmed his inference with quiet happiness.
• The Island Master said she had avoided visiting Freud on the 37th Island because seeing through his 'deception' would have caused him to die completely.
• The Island Master wished Lin Yu luck finding Freud's legacy and said she had not affected the fairness of the process.

Lin Yu used the Island Master of the 6th Island’s hint to narrow his search for Old Zheng’s inheritance to bodies of water and began checking pools. Outside Flusterd, players battled a surge of giant starfish while Sherlock stood still, drawing his allies’ protests.

• The Island Master hinted that Old Zheng had sunk his inheritance in water somewhere on the island, and Lin Yu deduced that the likely search sites were a handful of pools.
• Lin Yu checked Cassidy’s wells, found nothing, and set out to search the wilderness pools without risking another meeting between Old Zheng and the Island Master.
• Lin Yu considered leaving Old Zheng with the Island Master, believing they cared for each other, then sent Hannah into a pool to search for the inheritance.
• Outside Flusterd, giant psychedelic-colored starfish surged ashore, and Wang Jiu, Chlorpromazine, and Katie fought them together.
• Sherlock remained motionless during the battle, and his allies shouted at him to move.

As the Players and Flusterd’s residents fought off waves of starfish, Fu Luo analyzed the attack and searched for a way to help find Old Yao. Nineteen misread Fu Luo’s restraint as a calculated effort to expose the hidden mastermind and became convinced that Fu Luo was far more powerful than he seemed.

• Players and Flusterd’s residents joined forces to hold back the starfish while Fu Luo watched from behind the defensive line.
• Fu Luo suspected the attack had been arranged to target the newcomers and hoped that helping Flusterd would earn the residents’ trust as he searched for Old Yao.
• Fu Luo spotted an abnormality in the fog and seawater behind the starfish and realized how the monsters had appeared.
• Nineteen mistook Fu Luo’s observations and restraint for a plan to intimidate and uncover the person who had lured the Sea Progeny to shore.
• Nineteen concluded that Fu Luo had hidden strengths and felt excited to have come to Mist Island.

Fu Luo deduced that the Heirs of the Absolute Sea had been teleported to Mist Island and traced the attacks on Players to the Diving Merchant. The chapter leaves him suspecting that the merchant was a hostile Ancient Remnant who could direct and transport Sea Monsters over long distances.

• Fu Luo analyzed the waves and fog and concluded that the Heirs of the Absolute Sea had been teleported to the island.
• Fu Luo connected the teleportation method to Mist Island's Ancient Civilization and narrowed the likely suspects to the Lord of Mist Island's two former deputies.
• Fu Luo recalled that the Diving Merchant traded with Players and that those who met him often later faced unusually targeted Heirs of the Absolute Sea.
• Fu Luo reviewed the Order's records showing that Players' deaths rose after encounters with the Diving Merchant and that some Sea Monsters appeared far from their previous activity.
• Fu Luo agreed with the Professor's conclusion that the Diving Merchant targeted Players and could guide and teleport Heirs of the Absolute Sea.

Fu Luo identified the Diving Merchant as the one sending starfish through a portal and planned to destroy it, asking Wang Jiu and Shi Jiu to escort him to its location. Meanwhile, Jue found the secluded town of the Island Master of the 6th Island and believed she had taken the lead.

• Fu Luo deduced that the Diving Merchant was hiding near an underwater portal about three kilometers offshore and using it to send starfish after the players.
• Fu Luo decided to try destroying the portal with [Endless Madness], despite the danger of reaching it and escaping the blast.
• Fu Luo told Wang Jiu and Shi Jiu about the portal and asked them to escort him to its underwater location.
• Wang Jiu warned that underwater combat could be difficult, while Shi Jiu agreed to help Fu Luo reach the portal.
• Jue found Cassidy's town, identified it as the secluded town of the Island Master of the 6th Island, and believed she had reached it before the other players.

Jue entered Cassidy to seek the Island Master, but distrusted a young Scaled Person’s directions and searched elsewhere. Meanwhile, Lin Yu learned from Hannah that someone had recently cleared an underwater passage and set out to track them.

• Jue approached a young Scaled Person in Cassidy and asked where to find the Island Master, who pointed her toward a white building.
• After leaving the Scaled Person’s sight, Jue used powder to disguise herself and searched in the opposite direction, reasoning that his directions were likely lies.
• Lin Yu waited by a pool while Hannah searched the island’s underwater passages with her Mental Power.
• Hannah reported that someone had recently excavated and cleared an underwater passage, and Lin Yu concluded the intruder was nearby and likely large.
• Lin Yu told Hannah to track the intruder so they could find him.

Lin Yu pursued a Mist Island native who had secretly widened an underwater passage beneath the 6th Island. He caught up with the stranger, who turned to confront him and demanded to know who he was.

• Lin Yu reasoned that the intruder might be powerful but that he had the advantage on the 6th Island, with its Island Master and the Tycoon as possible reinforcements.
• Hannah reported that the intruder had dissolved rock to widen an underwater passage, and Lin Yu told her to stop before she reached him.
• Lin Yu used the Fusion Memory Metal Respiratory Tract and swam into the passage, then caught up with Hannah and carried her on his shoulder.
• Lin Yu swam quickly through the passage and spotted a broad Shadow smearing the rock wall with a tool.
• The Shadow sensed Lin Yu, turned around warily, and asked who he was.

Lin Yu confronted a stranger in a diving suit in the subterranean waters beneath the 6th Island and fought off his harpoon attacks. The stranger revealed he had delayed Lin Yu’s competitors and demanded they cooperate to find the legacy, but Lin Yu challenged him to make good on his threat.

• Lin Yu questioned the diving-suit stranger, who claimed to be an Island Dweller from the 11th Island seeking the 6th Island’s Island Master’s protection.
• The stranger moved closer and fired harpoons at Lin Yu, who dodged the first pair and deflected six more with the Water Prayer Necklace.
• The stranger identified Lin Yu as an otherworlder, and Lin Yu insisted he could still work for the Island Master.
• The stranger proposed cooperating to find the legacy and revealed he had summoned Sea Progeny to stall Lin Yu’s competitors along the 6th Island’s coast.
• The stranger threatened to kill Lin Yu if he refused, and Lin Yu told him to try.

Lin Yu confronted the Diving Merchant, who wanted to stop him from obtaining Freud’s inheritance because he feared another person like Freud would destabilize their world. Lin Yu invoked the Crow, and the Crow’s voice confirmed that his appearance had made the supposed impersonation real.

• Lin Yu warned the Diving Merchant that attacking him could expose the merchant’s infiltration to the 6th Island’s Island Master.
• The Diving Merchant said he was willing to pay a severe price to kill Lin Yu, whom he believed was Freud’s chosen Successor.
• Lin Yu showed the Crow mark on his wrist, causing the Diving Merchant to halt and question whether Lin Yu was the Crow’s Chosen of God.
• Lin Yu disguised himself as the Crow and began declaring the Crow’s grand title.
• The Crow spoke through the mark, joked about Lin Yu’s impersonation, and realized that appearing had made something unreal become real.

Lin Yu used Crow’s mark to prove his divine status to the Diving Merchant and force him to stand down. He then threatened to reveal Freud’s remains, secured the Teleportation Gun, and discovered the Diving Merchant was a puppet.

• Lin Yu summoned Crow’s presence, convincing the Diving Merchant that he had divine favor and could not be safely opposed.
• The Diving Merchant abandoned his plan to kill Lin Yu and warned that Lin Yu’s competitors would soon make their moves.
• The Diving Merchant opened a spatial passage with his Teleportation Gun, but Lin Yu stopped him and demanded the weapon as compensation.
• Lin Yu threatened to activate Freud’s remains and expose them to the Island Master of the 6th Island, prompting the Diving Merchant to surrender the Teleportation Gun.
• Lin Yu demanded the Diving Merchant’s name and appearance, and the Diving Merchant removed his helmet to reveal that his true form was a puppet.

Lin Yu discovered that the Diving Merchant was a sapient puppet controlled by a soul, learned his name was Morse, and added him to his [Social] network. Before leaving Mist Island, Lin Yu asked the Crow about a deal with his sister and learned she had arranged for him to receive a legacy.

• Lin Yu recognized that the Diving Merchant's body was a puppet and deduced that someone was controlling it.
• The Diving Merchant explained that his soul inhabited the puppet, then gave Lin Yu the name Morse; Lin Yu introduced himself as Schreiber and added Morse to his [Social] network.
• After Morse left through the teleportation portal, the Crow and Old Zheng spoke, and the Crow warned Lin Yu that staying visible on Mist Island would bring trouble.
• Lin Yu asked the Crow what deal his sister had made, and the Crow said she had asked it to ensure Lin Yu obtained the thing she had been best at using.

Lin Yu learned that Mors had once been one of the Lord of Mist Island’s trusted deputies and had turned against Old Zheng after discovering his plans to recreate an apocalypse as a Trial ground. Meanwhile, the Players pushed across the Absolute Sea’s frozen surface, escorting Fu Luo toward the teleportation gate.

• Crow cut off his connection with Lin Yu after answering his question, leaving Lin Yu with a new lead about his sister’s legacy.
• Old Zheng said Mist Island’s history of civilization collapse made it suited to preserving inheritances and explained that Mors had been the first deputy he persuaded to betray the Lord of Mist Island.
• Old Zheng revealed that Mors later resented him after learning he planned to recreate the apocalypse as a Trial ground for Players.
• Wang Jiu, Chlorpromazine, Nineteen, and Katie fought off the Heir of the Absolute Sea’s starfish while Nineteen used Freeze Potions to form an ice path.
• The Players escorted Fu Luo across the frozen sea toward the predetermined teleportation gate.

Fu Luo’s group fought through waves of starfish to reach two underwater portals, where Fu Luo confronted the Diving Merchant. The Diving Merchant fled through a portal, and both portals closed before Fu Luo could use [Endless Madness].

• Nineteen used his black umbrella to absorb a corrosive bubble that passed the defenses.
• Fu Luo realized a second portal had opened beside the first but kept the discovery from the fragile alliance.
• Katie collapsed after corrosive liquid struck her, and Chlorpromazine was badly wounded as the group neared the portals.
• Fu Luo jumped toward the twin vortices, and Nineteen propelled him forward with an air-cannon bullet.
• Fu Luo saw the Diving Merchant beside a submersible and prepared to activate [Endless Madness].
• The Diving Merchant escaped through the starfish portal, both portals closed, and the starfish stopped moving.

Fu Luo believed he had scared away the Diving Merchant and accepted the players’ praise after the starfish threat ended. Nineteen independently concluded that Sherlock was far more formidable than expected and chose to keep the temporary alliance intact.

• Fu Luo surfaced and found the Diving Merchant and the starfish gone, then dismissed his suspicion that Old Yao had negotiated with the merchant.
• Fu Luo put away Endless Madness and told the players the danger was over, while Wang Jiu and Katie praised him.
• Nineteen considered several explanations for the Diving Merchant’s retreat, including Sherlock’s hidden power or a secret agreement between them.
• Nineteen decided Sherlock must not be underestimated and maintained friendly relations with the temporary alliance instead of attacking its exhausted members.

After defeating the Heir of the Absolute Sea, the players returned to Flusterd and used drawings to learn that the Cursed Statue might be in nearby ruins. They prepared to search the ruins for both the statue and the hidden legacy, while Nineteen continued to suspect Sherlock was connected to Order's God Creation Project.

• Nineteen decided not to attack the other players yet and planned to report his suspicions about Sherlock to the Marauders after leaving the Instance.
• The residents of Flusterd welcomed the players and honored them as guests for stopping the Heir of the Absolute Sea's assault.
• Katie drew a statue being worshipped, and the finned residents replied with a picture of ruined buildings.
• Fu Luo, Wang Jiu, and Nineteen concluded that the Cursed Statue might be in the ruins, while Chlorpromazine suggested the legacy could be buried beneath them.
• The players agreed to search the ruins, and the two groups separated into their usual positions.

Fu Luo followed a clue to a forest pool while searching for Old Yao, fearing his friend had drowned. Old Yao appeared alive and explained that he had escaped from an underwater confinement, but he still wondered how he had ended up on the island.

• Fu Luo's Detective ability finally pointed him toward a forest pool as the location connected to Old Yao.
• Wang Jiu offered to send an aquatic summon to scout the pool, but Old Yao called out to them from behind.
• Fu Luo recognized Old Yao after he returned Fu Luo's stolen gray flat cap and demonstrated his Thief ability.
• Old Yao explained that he had awakened underwater, picked his restraints, swum to the surface, and hidden in a tree to recover.
• Old Yao asked Fu Luo whether monsters had attacked them and brought them to the island.

Lin Yu, Fu Luo, Wang Jiu, and Katie reached the Previous Civilization ruins on the 6th Island, where Lin Yu warned them about the complex’s surviving defenses and dangerous automatons. Lin Yu privately revealed that he had already inspected the ruins and was nearly certain the Cursed Statue was inside.

• Lin Yu caught up on the group’s plans and discussed finding the Cursed Statue and heritage in the ruins.
• The group reached a sprawling complex of abandoned buildings that Fu Luo identified as a former research institute and shelter.
• Lin Yu explained that the ruins might still have powerful, active defensive systems and automatons, drawing on information he claimed to have bought.
• Fu Luo said Lin Yu’s knowledge could help them get ahead of rival groups, and Lin Yu offered to recall useful details if they encountered the automatons.
• Lin Yu privately recalled that he had already explored the ruins and believed the Cursed Statue was somewhere inside.

Lin Yu explained how he had tracked Fu Luo and arranged to join the group as Old Yao, while using his knowledge of the ruins to gain influence. At the ruins’ edge, he identified the patrolling automata as Bronze King Large Guardians and told the group how to avoid provoking them.

• Lin Yu revealed that he had used Mental Power to track Fu Luo, Nineteen, Chlorpromazine, and Zao, then chose to appear beside the pool and make his story seem credible.
• Lin Yu used his claimed knowledge of the ruins to establish Old Yao as the team’s local guide and gain authority alongside Fu Luo and Wang Jiu.
• Fu Luo, Wang Jiu, and Katie asked Lin Yu how to proceed after spotting patrolling automata, a security system, and turret-like structures near the ruins.
• Lin Yu observed the area, identified the automata as Bronze King Large Guardians, and said they detected thoughts and would not attack people without nervous thoughts or hostile intentions.

Lin Yu led the group past Mist Island’s guards, whose final identification system targeted anyone with negative thoughts after a soul-based catastrophe corrupted the institute. As the group crossed the ruins and discussed why the guards were humanoid, Lin Yu strengthened his rapport with Wang Jiu while anticipating further dangers.

• Fu Luo marveled that Mist Island’s guards identified people by reading their thoughts, and Lin Yu explained that the system had replaced facial and soul-signature recognition after the catastrophe corrupted people’s minds and souls.
• Lin Yu guided the group into the complex while they suppressed their emotions and casually chatted near the patrolling metal guards.
• Fu Luo asked why Mist Island’s puppets were humanoid, and Wang Jiu explained that they were designed to use human equipment and could serve as spare bodies for purified souls.
• Lin Yu praised Wang Jiu’s knowledge, improving their rapport and reinforcing the group’s impression of Old Yao as well-informed.
• Lin Yu privately anticipated that the guards’ emotional screening would be difficult to overcome and planned to use future dangers to raise Old Yao’s standing.

Lin Yu expected his teammates’ forced composure to collapse under the pressure as they approached the large gate. When Fu Luo stepped on a finger bone and triggered an alarm, Lin Yu acted terrified while privately welcoming the reaction.

• Lin Yu reasoned that Fu Luo, Katie, and Wang Jiu would eventually lose control despite their efforts to manage their emotions.
• Katie, Wang Jiu, and Fu Luo distracted themselves by chatting about breakfast and their favorite foods as they walked.
• Lin Yu admitted he had not eaten because he was nervous and thanked the others for rescuing him after a monster killed him at the start.
• The group approached the large gate while avoiding the scattered bones and bodies of researchers around the building.
• Fu Luo stepped on a finger bone, and the sound caused the three teammates to break down and triggered an alarm from the giant behind them.

Lin Yu secretly prepared a counterfeit mirror to protect the group from the Bronze King Large Guardians’ Chaos Rays while pretending to rely on guesswork. As the guardians charged after the rays ended, he activated the Earth-Evasion Talisman Armor to get Katie and himself out of danger.

• Lin Yu told Wang Jiu and Fu Luo that the guardians’ chest cores were their weak points and warned that they attacked first with Chaos Rays, then by charging.
• Lin Yu used a counterfeit giant mirror to reflect the guardians’ rainbow-colored Chaos Rays and pretended he had only guessed it would work.
• After the rays faded, Katie and Wang Jiu tried to pull Lin Yu away from the charging guardians, while Fu Luo escaped on a children’s scooter.
• Lin Yu activated the Earth-Evasion Talisman Armor, grabbed Katie, and sent her and himself away from the guardians.

Lin Yu used the Earth-Evasion Talisman Armor to escape the Copper King Guards with Katie and Wang Jiu, then returned underground to help Fu Luo. The chapter left Fu Luo tripped amid the guards’ attacks as Lin Yu intervened.

• Lin Yu took Katie and Wang Jiu underground and evaded the Copper King Guards’ hammer strikes by following a route through a gap beneath the research institute.
• Lin Yu brought them into a dark experimental greenhouse and told them to stay there while he went to help Sherlock.
• Lin Yu located Fu Luo with his Mental Power and saw him dodging the guards by misleading their movement predictions.
• Lin Yu reached out from underground along Fu Luo’s path, tripped him, and heard Fu Luo curse in surprise.

After Fu Luo fell and was left vulnerable to the autonomous guards, Lin Yu rescued him and used Rage Spray and Mental Power to overwhelm the guards’ mind-reading abilities. The guards became unable to identify their targets, giving Lin Yu’s team an opening against them.

• Fu Luo fell from the scooter and, unable to move, feared the approaching guards would kill him.
• Lin Yu pulled Fu Luo underground with the Earth-Evasion Talisman Armor and told him he had moved Wang Jiu and Katie somewhere safe.
• The guards used drills to churn the ground and disrupt Lin Yu’s underground movement, forcing him and Fu Luo back to the surface.
• Lin Yu threw Rage Spray to interfere with the guards’ mind-reading and secretly unleashed his Mental Power to overwhelm their senses.
• The guards spun around in confusion, unable to determine where their enemies were or what attack to launch.

Lin Yu returned Fu Luo safely to Wang Jiu and Katie, then led the group through the research institute, which he confirmed was safe. They found a working tablet that displayed a live map of the complex, giving them a way to navigate and search for the legacy.

• Lin Yu used the guards’ confusion to escort Fu Luo underground and back to Wang Jiu and Katie, retrieving Fu Luo’s cap and scooter along the way.
• Lin Yu explained that he avoided fighting to prevent triggering a full alert and urged the group to explore the research institute.
• Lin Yu dealt with two runaway experimental subjects and destroyed their logs while confirming the institute’s security system was inactive.
• Wang Jiu used her green snake to retrieve a working tablet from a skeleton in the glasshouse, and Fu Luo activated it by shouting at it.
• Fu Luo, Wang Jiu, and Katie discovered that the tablet showed a live map of the research complex, which could help them find the legacy.