Chapter Summaries

Ling Chu tested Andrew’s magic energy heater and moved her crops into a below-deck growing area to prepare for the coming extreme cold. As players argued over the unknown disaster, the system announced that Snowbound Deep Winter would arrive in ten minutes.

• Andrew presented Ling Chu with the first magic energy heater, and she confirmed that it quickly warmed the ship’s hall.
• Ling Chu moved her crops into the lowest cabin and arranged heaters and water-storage barrels for an underground growing area.
• Ling Chu spent the final day fishing, catching nearly three hundred jin of belt fish as they became harder to find.
• Black Spade K prepared for a high-temperature disaster, while Ling Chu waited to see whether her preparations for extreme cold would prove necessary.
• The system announced that Snowbound Deep Winter would arrive in ten minutes.

When the Extreme Cold disaster began, Ling Chu stayed warm and watched players turn against Zhang Da Xian for selling useless Water Purifiers. She marked his location and set the Ghost Ship on course to rob him, leaving his ship sailing toward the target through ice needle fog.

• The Extreme Cold disaster arrived, and Ling Chu put on her sharkskin armor and settled under a thick quilt.
• Squid Ball and other players cursed Zhang Da Xian for selling Water Purifiers, and he refused to return their Sea Shells.
• Ling Chu told Squid Ball she could track Zhang Da Xian with Hunter's Mark and proposed robbing him.
• Ling Chu marked Zhang Da Xian and found that he was 2,210 kilometers away.
• Ling Chu ordered the Ghost Ship to turn toward Zhang Da Xian's location as ice needle fog engulfed the sea.

After the snowbound Deep Winter began, Black Spade K’s allies demanded answers because they had prepared for extreme heat instead. Ling Chu’s ship was ready for the cold, and Lingering Wind and Fading Moon emerged with over two hundred Cold Resistance Potions as the crews struggled to adapt.

• Daydreamer found that heat-protection supplies had crashed in price while cold-weather goods and Charcoal had become scarce, and he demanded an explanation from Tao Zai.
• Little Girl Stepping on Mushrooms also confronted the Black Spade Ship, while Black Spade K realized Ling Chu had revealed the truth about the disaster and ordered his crew to seek cold-weather supplies.
• Tao Zai reported that A Silly Bird had no cotton and Mickey Meow Witch had no sharkskin armor, so Black Spade K ordered the ship to run at minimum speed and bought three hundred pieces of Charcoal.
• Ling Chu distributed warm clothing and footwear to the girls on her ship, leaving them comfortable on deck despite the icy mist.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon returned from the Alchemy Room with over two hundred Primary Cold Resistance Potions for the crew to use.

Ling Chu helped Lingering Wind and Fading Moon set a price for their Cold Resistance Potions and offered her a share of the proceeds. The crew celebrated several new ways to earn Sea Shells, while Squid Ball kept busy with paid fortune-telling requests.

• Ling Chu, Huang Xiaowen, and Squid Ball drank the Cold Resistance Potions, and Squid Ball felt their warmth immediately.
• Ling Chu advised Lingering Wind and Fading Moon to sell two hundred potions for 200 Sea Shells each and offered her thirty percent of the earnings.
• Ling Chu received 47,040 Sea Shells from Mickey Meow Witch, who reported that her shark-skin armor had sold out and that she had formed the Qiluo Ship Fleet.
• Huang Xiaowen offered to help Lingering Wind and Fading Moon prepare ingredients in exchange for a share of the money from extra potions.
• Squid Ball declined the extra work because fortune-telling requests were keeping her busy, and she charged 100 Sea Shells per reading while turning down disaster predictions.

As Deep Winter intensified, Ling Chu checked her ship and plants, discovered that fishing had become scarce, and spent a warm night aboard the Ghost Ship. The next morning, reports of worsening cold and a blizzard that caused a player’s frostbite showed how dangerous the disaster had become.

• Huang Xiaowen realized she might advance her profession by winning wager games and began planning how to find enough players to challenge.
• Squid Ball said her crystal-ball vision showed only mist, while Ling Chu decided they should focus on surviving Deep Winter.
• Ling Chu found that her plants were growing normally, but fishing had nearly stopped as the cold reduced fish activity.
• Ling Chu practiced shooting arrows at nearby floes, then slept comfortably after turning on the Captain’s Cabin heater.
• Ling Chu checked that the Mana Stone was still glowing and used Tracking Technique to find that the Ghost Ship had closed half the distance to Zhang Da Xian.
• Players in the Public Chat Channel described worsening cold, and Lost Bug reported that a blizzard struck when he landed on an island, leaving his ankle badly frostbitten.

Ling Chu sold charcoal and Cold Resistance Potions during the extreme cold, earning 9,600 Sea Shells as buyers praised the potions’ effectiveness. Black Spade K’s crew could not trade with her and failed to turn the Public Chat Channel against her, while Nine-Tailed Cat began questioning her choice to join the Black Spade Ship.

• Ling Chu listed charcoal and Cold Resistance Potions with purchase limits, blacklisting the Black Spade Ship, Doll Ship, and Dream Ship fleets.
• Lost Bug bought a potion, reported that it warmed him and healed his frostbitten foot, and helped Ling Chu sell out her remaining stock.
• Black Spade K and his crew discovered that Ling Chu had blacklisted them, so he ordered Tao Zai to accuse her of exploiting the disaster.
• Players defended Ling Chu and Squid Ball, and Black Spade K stopped Tao Zai’s attempt to stir up the Public Chat Channel.
• Nine-Tailed Cat reconsidered joining the Black Spade Ship as Ling Chu collected 9,600 Sea Shells and asked Lost Bug about the island he had encountered.

Ling Chu traded with Lost Bug for the coordinates of an island that appeared to have an owner, then steered the Ghost Ship there instead of heading straight for Zhang Da Xian. She landed on the snow-covered island and received a notice that she could stay for only seven natural days.

• Lost Bug sold Ling Chu the island coordinates in exchange for Cotton Clothes and a Cold Resistance Potion, then agreed to leave the island to avoid Pirates.
• Ling Chu changed the Ghost Ship’s course toward the island, though she still planned to loot Zhang Da Xian if he had frozen to death.
• As the Ghost Ship crossed the freezing fog, Ling Chu sheltered Xiao Pai in her Captain’s Cabin and practiced Storm Arrow on floating ice.
• Ling Chu arrived at the island, anchored the Ghost Ship, and found the island covered in deep snow with no other ships nearby.
• Ling Chu landed and received a system notice limiting her stay to seven natural days.

Ling Chu and her companions explored the snowy island, rescued a frozen fawn, and were caught in a sudden blizzard. As they sheltered by the forest, a bell sounded and a sled cart appeared in front of them.

• Ling Chu followed sled tracks inland with Squid Ball, Titch, Emily, and three other skeletons.
• Emily discovered a frozen fawn was still alive, and Ling Chu gave her a Cold Resistance Potion to revive it.
• The fawn recovered, showed affection to Emily and Ling Chu, and bounded away toward the woods.
• A blizzard struck as Ling Chu and the others approached the forest, forcing them to take shelter beneath a pine tree.
• A bell rang through the storm, and a sled cart emerged from the snow and stopped in front of Ling Chu and her companions.

Ling Chu and Squid Ball met Babu Youyou after saving his young elk, and he led them through a hidden canyon to his camp. Along the way, they saw many people frozen in the ice, including someone dressed like a player, and Babu Youyou called the frozen bodies his art.

• Babu Youyou stopped the blizzard and waived the island’s test because Ling Chu and Squid Ball had saved his young elk.
• Ling Chu recognized Babu Youyou as the brother of Baboo Zhizhi, and Babu Youyou invited them to visit his camp.
• Babu Youyou opened a hidden path through the forest, and Ling Chu and Squid Ball followed his sleigh into an ice-walled canyon.
• Ling Chu and Squid Ball saw numerous people frozen inside the canyon walls, including a man dressed in modern outdoor clothing.
• Babu Youyou proudly described the frozen people as a beautiful work of ice-preservation art.

Ling Chu and her companions reached Babu Youyou’s stall, where she chose several useful items and an old book that might help decipher the Elven Stone Slab. Babu Youyou rejected her Mana Stone and Cold Resistance Potions, but showed interest in Saka’s Creamy Golden Pumpkin Cake.

• Babu Youyou led Ling Chu, Squid Ball, Emily, and Titch through a frozen gorge to his camp and offered them goods at his stall because they had saved the fawn.
• Ling Chu examined the stall’s wares and selected a Sun Compass, two Ice House Folding Cards, a Bottled Blizzard, and an old book Squid Ball thought could help decipher the Elven Stone Slab.
• Babu Youyou rejected Ling Chu’s Primary Mana Stone and Cold Resistance Potions, saying they were of no interest to him.
• Ling Chu took out pieces of Saka’s Creamy Golden Pumpkin Cake, and Babu Youyou sniffed its aroma and asked what it was.

Ling Chu failed to trade for the Elf-language book but obtained an Ice House Folding Card and built a warm, spacious shelter on Babu Youyou’s island. She planned to steal the book the next day, but a strange rhythmic sound outside woke her in the night.

• Babu Youyou traded Ling Chu a Bottled Blizzard and an Ice House Folding Card for pumpkin pie and fruit, but refused to trade the book unless she gave him one of her skeleton henchmen.
• Ling Chu refused to trade away her henchmen and asked to stay overnight on Babu Youyou’s island.
• Ling Chu used the Ice House Folding Card to create a sturdy ice shelter with voice-controlled heating and space-expanding magic.
• Ling Chu and Squid Ball discussed stealing the book, and Ling Chu planned to send Squid Ball back to the ship in the morning before attempting it herself.
• A muffled, rhythmic noise outside the Ice House jolted Ling Chu awake as she drifted toward sleep.

Ling Chu investigated the strange noise Babu Youyou made in the forest, then tried to steal the goods from his locked chest while he was away. After failing, she offered him fresh fruit to persuade him to let her and Squid Ball stay at the camp for two more nights.

• Ling Chu found trees smashed apart in the forest after Babu Youyou claimed he had been chopping firewood.
• Babu Youyou left the camp on his sleigh, and Ling Chu told Squid Ball she would try to take the wooden chest.
• Ling Chu used Curtain of the Dead to enter Babu Youyou's ice hut, but she could neither unlock nor move the enchanted chest.
• Ling Chu offered Babu Youyou fresh fruit and asked to stay two more nights, and he agreed after tasting the cherries.
• Babu Youyou noticed an unfamiliar scent in his ice hut, checked the chest, and found that nothing was missing.

Ling Chu followed the midnight noises into the forest and discovered that Babu Youyou transformed into a Giant Elk before changing back in agony. When Babu Youyou cornered her for discovering his secret, Ling Chu claimed she could cure his debilitating headache.

• Ling Chu followed the violent noises into the forest and found a moon-white Giant Elk smashing trees.
• The Giant Elk transformed back into Babu Youyou, who clutched his head and complained of tormenting pain and bugs.
• Babu Youyou sensed Ling Chu hiding nearby, and she stepped out and admitted she was there.
• Babu Youyou trapped Ling Chu with moving trees and threatened to make her part of his frozen art collection.
• Ling Chu stopped Babu Youyou from attacking by offering to cure his headache.

Ling Chu brought Lingering Wind and Fading Moon to treat Babu Youyou’s recurring headaches, which he had threatened to punish the crew over if they could not cure him. After examining him, Lingering Wind and Fading Moon found a tiny hole in his antler and suspected bugs inside, leaving Babu Youyou facing a small incision to remove them.

• Ling Chu promised Babu Youyou that her ship’s doctor would cure his headaches, while Babu Youyou threatened to turn the crew into Ice Sculptures if she failed.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon and Huang Xiaowen arrived on Babu Youyou’s island and rode his reindeer sleigh back to camp.
• Ling Chu revealed that Babu Youyou was the patient and explained that he had threatened their lives if the doctor could not help him.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon examined Babu Youyou, removed a large clump of earwax, and found no problem in his ear canal.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon spotted a tiny hole in Babu Youyou’s antler and said bugs inside it were causing his headaches.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon prepared anesthetic and explained that she would make a small incision to remove the bugs, while Babu Youyou reacted in alarm.

Lingering Wind and Fading Moon removed demon-devouring grubs from Baboo Youyou’s antler and treated the wound, ending the pain that had tormented him for nearly a hundred years. In gratitude, Baboo Youyou gave Ling Chu the items she wanted and a one-use whistle before she and her crew left the island aboard the Ghost Ship.

• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon cut into Baboo Youyou’s antler and extracted four Demon Devouring Grubs, then cleaned and bandaged the wound.
• Baboo Youyou woke free of his headache and gave Ling Chu a compass, two Ice House Folding Cards, the Elvish book, and Babu Youyou’s Whistle as thanks.
• Baboo Youyou warned Ling Chu that his siblings were dangerous and advised her to avoid doing business with them.
• Ling Chu packed away the gifts and led her crew and the Skeleton Henchmen back to the Ghost Ship, which departed as Baboo Youyou waved goodbye.

As the Extreme Cold disaster worsened, Ling Chu sold potions, quilts, and charcoal to players struggling to survive. She traded a quilt to Star River Enters Dream for a Glimmering Silk Thread she needed to upgrade her Eyepatch.

• Ling Chu listed 100 Cold Resistance Potions, twenty quilts, and 2,000 pieces of Volcanic Charcoal, and players bought everything within five minutes.
• Ling Chu earned 50,000 Sea Shells from the sales and received a message from Star River Enters Dream asking to buy a quilt.
• Star River Enters Dream offered a Glimmering Silk Thread he had found while fishing in exchange for a quilt.
• Ling Chu recognized the thread as a material needed to upgrade her Eyepatch and traded him a quilt for it.
• Star River Enters Dream spread the quilt over his bed and considered using its extra cotton to make clothes.

Ling Chu shared her potion profits and supplies with Ghost Ship’s crew while Black Spade K struggled through the cold and plotted to raid A Silly Bird’s Cotton Island. Zhang Da Xian ignored Black Spade K’s recruitment offer until Ling Chu’s Ghost Ship appeared, prompting him to urgently agree to join the Fleet.

• Ling Chu put her potion profits in a Fleet red envelope and left two Ice House Folding Cards in the ship’s warehouse for her crew.
• Black Spade K envied Ling Chu’s resources, learned Zhang Da Xian had not answered his invitation, and ordered his crew to prepare to raid A Silly Bird’s Cotton Island.
• Zhang Da Xian ignored Tao Zai’s Fleet invitation because he suspected Black Spade K wanted his supplies and Sea Shells.
• Zhang Da Xian spotted Ling Chu’s Ghost Ship emerging from the mist and saw its weapons and skeleton crew.
• Zhang Da Xian messaged Tao Zai that he would join and begged him to use a Member Invitation Card before Ling Chu attacked.

After Black Spade K rescued Zhang Da Xian from Ling Chu by recruiting him, he took the fraudster’s supplies and prepared to raid an island. Nine-Tailed Cat left the Black Spade Ship, choosing to sail away alone rather than join the raid.

• Tao Zai alerted Black Spade K, who used a Member Recruitment Card to teleport Zhang Da Xian and his ship away just as Ling Chu was about to attack.
• Black Spade K made Zhang Da Xian transfer his ship’s supplies, then used the Sea Shells to buy Cotton Clothes for the crew and took Zhang Da Xian’s own clothes for another member.
• Black Spade K used an Island Raid Card to target A Silly Bird, despite the crew’s depleted stamina.
• Nine-Tailed Cat told Black Spade K she was leaving the fleet, citing her dissatisfaction and doubts about his decision to raid the island.
• Nine-Tailed Cat used her saved resources to build a small Level 3 Ship and sailed away alone.

Ling Chu tried to raid Black Spade K, but discovered he was already attacking A Silly Bird, so she used an Island Raid Card to open a route to Silly Bird’s island. She left the story poised to cross the vortex and help him.

• Black Spade K refused to pursue Nine-Tailed Cat and led Black Spade Ship through a teleportation vortex.
• Ling Chu learned from Public Chat that Black Spade Ship had gained a crew member and blocked Real Estate Agent Xiao Liu for reselling her Cotton Clothes.
• Ling Chu chose to raid Black Spade K over Zhang Da Xian, but the system said Black Spade K was already using an Island Raid Card.
• A Silly Bird messaged Ling Chu for help, saying Black Spade Ship was attacking Cotton Island and offering her a share of its output.
• Ling Chu used an Island Raid Card on A Silly Bird, opening a two-way teleportation vortex near her ship.

Ling Chu used the whirlpool to reach Cotton Island as Black Spade K prepared to seize it, and the two ships faced off. Black Spade K called on the Dream Ship and Doll Ship to help destroy Ling Chu, while A Silly Bird found himself targeted by both fleets’ raid cards.

• Ling Chu gained an Abundant Mana buff, sailed the Ghost Ship through a whirlpool, and arrived near Cotton Island.
• Black Spade K approached Cotton Island to claim it, while A Silly Bird hid among the cotton trees and set traps.
• Zhang Da Xian recognized Ling Chu’s fog, and Black Spade K summoned the Dream Ship and Doll Ship to join his attack on the Ghost Ship.
• Ling Chu sailed toward Black Spade K’s ship instead of A Silly Bird’s island, briefly giving A Silly Bird hope.
• Daydreamer and Little Girl Stepping on Mushrooms used Island Raid Cards on A Silly Bird.